Pedro Feliz helped the Phillies finally cut down on their magic number to win the National League East, during a 7-4 win against the Astros. Pedro Feliz hit a fourth inning grand slam in the fourth inning putting the Phillies up for good in this one. J.A. Happ(12-4) pitched 5.2 innings giving up only nine [...]
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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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Last night in Philadelphia, it was Pedro’s home debut, unfortunately Mother Nature didn’t cooperate. Pedro Martinez got through three innings before a rain delay of just over an hour and he didn’t come back and couldn’t try to get a win, as he left losing. Jamie Moyer(11-9) came in and pitched the final six innings [...]
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Welcome to Chatter Up! here at NLEC. This edition will be the first between the Braves and the Red hot Nationals. Matt Fournier of The Braves Baseball Blog will join us for the second time and so will Mark Perry of CenterfieldGate. This time though, we have a lot more interaction from other members [...]
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Rookie Mat Latos was impressive on Monday night against the Braves at his home park in San Diego. Latos(3-1) went seven innings only allowing six hits and two runs, but nothing after the second inning. Lucky for him, the Padres offense got single runs in hte 1st , 2nd, 3rd and 7th innings on route [...]
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Justin Upton wanted to make sure that the Diamondbacks won at least one game out of three against the Philadelphia Phillies. In the first inning, he hit a two run home run off of Phillies starter J.A. Happ and int the eighth inning, he added an RBI single for insurance. He also had three of [...]
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The Phillies played a game on Saturday that entailed 29 hits and 20 runs, lucky for them, they had 14 of those 20 runs, winning 14-6. Jimmy Rollins saved starter Rodrigo Lopez by hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Phillies took an early 3-0 lead, but squandered it by [...]
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Rodrigo Lopez, who is in for the injured Antonio Bastardo who is in for the injured Brett Myers is trying to keep Pedro Martinez out of the starting rotation as long as possible. Lopez(2-0) got his second win of the season while holding the hot Cubs to only one run over six strong innings of [...]
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According to MLBTR, the Nationals have DFA’s relief pitcher Kip Wells and called up former Yankee Tyler Clippard.
At AAA, Clippard had a tiny .92 ERA, so i’m surprised this move wasn’t made earlier.
