Saturday, October 27, 2007
August 18, 2006 Nationals 8, Phillies 5
| The Nats hand the Phillies their 5th straight loss with a 4 run 9th inning. I will get to those details later. First, let me tell you about today's Nats starter Tony Armas Jr. In his first 14 starts of the season up to June 9th, Armas was horrible, starting off 0-8 with a 6.53 ERA. Since that point, he has been sensational. Not including his last start (6 runs in 5 innings and a loss) and today's start, in a span of 7 starts he went 6-0. In that span of 48 1/3 innings, he only allowed 6 earned runs for an ERA of 1.12, lowering his season ERA by more than two runs, now at 6-9 and a 4.62 ERA for the season. Now for the game. The Phils jumped right out in front with a 2 run first inning, but the Nats get a run in the 3rd and a solo homer by Ryan Church in the 4th to tie the game at 2. Chase Utley's homer in the 6th gives the Phils the lead beck 3-2, but Daryle Ward's 2 run pinch hit homerun in the top of the 7th gives the Nats their first lead of the game 4-3. Mike Lieberthal's solo blast in the bottom of the 7th ties the game back up again 4-4, and David Dellucci's RBI double later in the inning gives the Phils the lead back 5-4. Then, disaster strikes. Ryan Madson comes in for the 8th and sails through the inning. I decide to leave Madson in for the 9th for the 2 inning save, but after an out and Austin Kearns pinch hit double and with Alfonso Soriano due up, I decide to go with Tom Gordon after all. Now with first base open, one out and a one run lead there is no way in hell that Soriano is going to get a chance to bat, so he is intentionally walked to set up the DP with Felipe Lopez coming to the plate. The move totally backfires, as Lopez blasts one over the fence for a 3-run homerun! To add insult to injury, next batter Ryan Zimmerman smacks a homer for back to back shots and an 8-5 Nats lead. Chad Cordero has no trouble in the 9th for his 31st save. It turns out that Soriano's intentional walk was the go ahead run, so if Madson had walked him before Gordon came in Madson would have gotten the loss. Instead, Gordon gave him the free pass so Gordon gets the loss. Just as well, since Gordon is the one who gave up the homers that cost the game, and Madson would have gotten a semi-undeserved loss had he walked Soriano. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2006 Washington Nationals At 2006 Philadelphia Phillies 8/18/2006
Nationals AB R H RBI AVG Phillies AB R H RBI AVG
A.Soriano LF 4 1 0 0 .301 J.Rollins SS 5 1 2 0 .294
F.Lopez SS 4 1 1 3 .266 D.Dellucci RF 4 0 1 1 .271
R.Zimmerman 3B 5 1 2 2 .269 R.Madson P 0 0 0 0 .250
N.Johnson 1B 5 0 1 0 .283 T.Gordon P 0 0 0 0 .000
J.Vidro 2B 5 0 2 0 .318 C.Utley 2B 4 2 2 2 .318
R.Church RF 4 1 1 1 .262 R.Howard 1B 1 0 1 0 .311
A.Escobar CF 4 1 1 0 .254 P.Burrell LF 3 0 0 1 .262
B.Schneider C 2 1 1 0 .277 A.Rowand CF 4 0 0 0 .262
A-D.Ward PH 1 1 1 2 .341 M.Lieberthal C 4 1 1 1 .212
C-B.Harper C 1 0 0 0 .300 A.Nunez 3B 4 0 0 0 .258
T.Armas Jr P 1 0 0 0 .026 B.Myers P 2 0 0 0 .067
B-M.Anderson PH 1 0 0 0 .339 D-C.Coste PH 1 0 1 0 .360
J.Rauch P 0 0 0 0 .125 E-S.Victorino PR,RF 0 1 0 0 .275
F-A.Kearns PH 1 1 1 0 .257
C.Cordero P 0 0 0 0 .143
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Totals 38 8 11 8 Totals 32 5 8 5
A-Pinch Hit For Schneider In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Armas Jr In 7th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Ward In 7th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Myers In 7th Inning
E-Pinch Ran For Coste In 7th Inning
F-Pinch Hit For Rauch In 9th Inning
Nationals....... 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 - 8 11 0
Phillies........ 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 - 5 8 1
Nationals (55-67) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
T.Armas Jr 6 5 3 3 2 4 1 88 4.62
J.Rauch WIN(4-8) BS(4th) 2 3 2 2 1 3 1 42 3.52
C.Cordero SAVE(31st) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 2.38
Totals 9 8 5 5 3 7 2
Phillies (71-50) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Myers 7 7 4 4 1 4 2 106 5.04
R.Madson HOLD(2nd) 1 1/3 2 1 1 0 1 0 24 4.61
T.Gordon L(3-4) BS(7th) 0 2/3 2 3 3 1 1 2 15 3.67
Totals 9 11 8 8 2 6 4
ATTENDANCE- 43,290 DATE- Friday, August 18th 2006 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Bruce Froemming, Mike Winters, Brian Runge, Paul Emmel
T- 3:31
LEFT ON BASE- Nationals: 6 Phillies: 5
DOUBLE PLAYS- Nationals: 2 Phillies: 0
ERRORS- A.Nunez
DOUBLES- A.Escobar(1st), A.Kearns(27th)
TRIPLES- J.Rollins(9th)
HOME RUNS- F.Lopez(11th), R.Zimmerman(8th), R.Church(6th), D.Ward(9th),
C.Utley(22nd), M.Lieberthal(5th)
SACRIFICE HITS- T.Armas Jr
SACRIFICE FLIES- P.Burrell
WALKS- A.Soriano, F.Lopez, R.Howard-3
HIT BY PITCH- S.Victorino
STRIKE OUTS- A.Soriano, F.Lopez, R.Zimmerman, J.Vidro, R.Church-2, D.Dellucci-2,
C.Utley, P.Burrell, A.Nunez, B.Myers-2
GIDP- P.Burrell, A.Rowand
BALKS- J.Rauch
WILD PITCHES- J.Rauch
Ryan Zimmerman touched them all and had 2 RBI as the Washington Nationals
staged a dramatic comeback over the Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 8 to
5 at Citizen's Bank Park.
Washington had the winning rally in the top of the 9th inning when they
tallied 4 runs on 3 hits. The key offensive moment was provided by Felipe
Lopez who silenced the crowd when he clubbed a three-run home run (his 11th
of the season). A wild and woolly affair, this game saw the lead change 5
times.
Jon Rauch(4-8) went 2 innings allowing 2 runs for the victory. Chad Cordero
earned the save, his 31st. Tom Gordon(3-4) was the losing pitcher in relief.
He allowed 3 runs and 2 hits in 2/3 of an inning.
Frank Robinson was feeling mighty fine as he answered questions in his office
after the game, 'Now that was one fine ending! Did you see how the crowd just
sat there in silence after the winning run scored? Here we are celebrating
wildly, and the stadium is cloaked in virtual silence. Weird. but GREAT!'
# posted by Gary @ 11:42 PM 
