I never knew why it was called the Hot Stove, and I suppose in the age of Google and Wikipedia, I could easily find the answer to that question. Ultimately, it does not matter so I will simply continue on in blissful ignorance. Sports has become a 24 hour a day, 365 investment. [...]
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The Florida Marlins were looking to take two of three against the first place Phillies last night and pull closer in the wildcard and division, but were down headed to late innings. They fought back late in the game with a Gaby Sanchez home run in the eighth, a Cody Ross RBI single in the [...]
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The Philadelphia Phillies took the final game of the three game set, 4-2 yesterday in Atlanta even during a rain delay. Ben Francisco started the scoring with an RBI double and Raul Ibanez, Pedro Feliz and Chase Utley added solo RBI’s for them. Cliff Lee had started the game but onlt went four because of [...]
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Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels had a perfect game into the sixth inning of this game against the Nats, although he lost it, the Phillies and he got the win, 4-2. Hamels(10-9) went eight innings only allowing five hits and one run and striking out ten and looks to have found his form. Hamels even helped [...]
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Game 1
In the first game of a double dip yesterday, Kyle Kendrick made a spot start for the Phillies and looked great. Kendrick(1-1) went 7.1 innings and only allowed seven hits and two earned runs, both on an Anderson Hernandez two run shot in the eighth. He was supported by a Ben Francisco homer and [...]
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Welcome to Chatter Up! This week features TRS of The Real Dirty Mets Blog facing off against Chatter Up! veteran, Matt Smith from Phillies Phandom. This week we got a lot of questions from users of The Real Dirty Mets Blog as well, so lets get to it!
Wally Londo(FishGuts): What’s your hopeful opening [...]
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The Phillies put their big trade aquisition on the mound last night in Washington, hoping that he could get back in form. Cliff Lee looked great through four innings, while only allowing a run and then things got scary. Lee(6-2) ended up allowing ten hits and five runs(four earned) in seven innings plus of work. [...]
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The Philadelphia Phillies got back on the winning track last night, even though their closer gave them a scare, yet again. Five solo home runs produced the runs, and they included two Ibanez shots, and one each by Jayson Werth, Carlos Ruiz and Chase Utley. Pedro Martinez(4-0) stayed perfect in a Phillies uniform going 6.2 [...]
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Labor Day Weekend is here but that doesn’t mean we here at NLEastChatter take a day off. Without further ado I give you the “Labor Day Edition” of the “NL East Daily Recap“.
Nelson Figueroa was a victim of the Long-ball as Home-runs by Aramis Ramirez in the 4th and Derek Lee in the 5th proved [...]
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Pedro Martinez at his age, did something that most probably did not expect, outduel last year’s Cy Young award winner. Pedro Martinez(3-0) worked seven innings while allowing only five hits and one run but struck out nine batters. To be fair, it was against the futile San Francisco lineup, but none the less, Brad Lidge [...]
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