Archive for May, 2011

I imagine its hard enough to look Rich Dubee in the eye, knowing that in doing so you’ll clearly see directly into the raw, exposed nerves of your own humanity.

Lee was great tonight, tossing eight innings of shut-out ball and striking out then en route to a 2-0 victory. Colby Lewis lined a pitch off of Lee’s neck in an obvious attempt to knock him from the game. Lee smiled coyly, as he is want to do and continued to dominate the Rangers.

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After Roy left the game, the Phillies turned to Ryan Madson to keep the score 3-2. Madson continued to impress earning his eighth consecutive save, while making professional baseball players look silly as they flail helplessly in a vain attempt to make contact.

Did you see Kyle Kendrick last night? God he’s terrible.

What those people failed to realize, however, was that Kyle Kendrick’s pitching is a tragedy that can never end.

So in summation, an old relic from baseball’s steroid era carries the Rockies past the Phillies ineffective offense. Let’s just move on.

This award is given to pitchers who manage to worsen, or conjure up, a terrible in-game situation by taking the mound.

All those Phillies-centric dark thoughts you have on the bus? Finally, someone has rounded them up and filled a 20-page comic with them.

Luckily, Cole Hamels used his aceitude to shut down the Colorado line-up. Cole went eight innings, gave up one run, struck out eight, walked one and surrendered five hits to grind the string of losses to a halt.