You do realize that lone Francisco hit against Garcia came the last time these two teams played in which Francisco smoked to the wall!
The hit he had was an infield hit.
LaRussa had an opportunity to hit for Garcia in the bottom of the sixth with two outs and two on and didn't....terrible call!
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Watch the games please. Garcia was moving, absolutely mowing, and had thrown like 75 pitches.
And Manuel was obviously joking, Hamels was well over 100 pitches. He was definitely coming out, Mayberry started so Francisco was the obvious choice to pinch hit.
If Mayberry is the only right handed bat you have coming off the bench, then good luck advancing past the brewers and then either what I'm guessing is the Rangers.
The only bad move Manuel made was taking Bastardo out for Lidge.
I'm sure you'd be saying this if Lidge had done his job.
The intentional walk was a bad call! Ruiz 1-10 on the series, yeah the guy does get some pretty clutch hits but even if he goes yard there its 2-0 not 3-0.
Yes, we should OBVIOUSLY expect Fransisco who hasn't had an extra base hit in a month to hit a bomb
Not that ridiculous when you're running out three of best pitchers in baseball. What about game 1? You keep saying "oh without out those dink hits...and those homeruns we probably win!" That's baseball! Hitters get lucky that's why failing 7 times out of 10 is considered good. What you're saying about game 1 is ridiculous, its like a Rays fan saying today, "hey if Beltre doesn't hit 3 home runs yesterday we probably win"
Not even close to the same. What I refered to was that I expected Howard to hit a bomb, or to succeed. What you cannot expect is two dink hits to happen right before the bomb.
Too much stock in past match ups. Who cares how bad a guy is against someone.
joking?
It only takes one swing to do damage in baseball. And that's exactly what happened, you have to get lucky to win in the playoffs. And then when you get lucky on top of being good well then that's scary.
So you admit the Phillies have been lucky...and yet they could very easily have lost both games they won. So that's obviously a point to lay -270 or whatever it was
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Seriously, you need to stop reading Jason Stark or whoever it was, becasue every point you brought up comes directly from that article. It'll make you a much better bettor if you start to think for yourself.
Cards had runners on base every inning and couldn't score. I think you have to give a little credit to Cole for bearing down when he could have folded like a cheap suit.
And you do. Hamels pitched well when he needed. But the cards also executed their game plan, forcing him to throw over 110 pitches in 6 innings and got into their bullpen.
I don't know how you quantify one team out playing another.
You watch the games
Sure the Cards are out hitting the Phillies but that was to be expected, they had the best offense in the NL. As far as last night goes, everyone spouts of numbers in particular about Garcia against the Phillies. By the way, they were justified. But I will throw some other numbers out about Garcia. He only pitched over 6 innings ten times in 30+ starts this year.
sigh. If you going to dig for stats, dig for them. Two of those starts were vs the Phils. After the 6th inning, Garcia has let up 2ER in 15.1IP. Try again.
I've yet to been convinced that the right bet on this series was Phillies -270 (or whatever it was)