The Philadelphia Phillies had their three-game wining streak snapped on Wednesday night, falling to the Marlins 14-5. Their record drops to 20-23.
- Kyle Kendrick allowed six runs on seven hits and two walks over 5.2 innings. His ERA increased to 4.53, and his record drops to 0-5.
- Kendrick has not won a start since last August.
- Kendrick threw just two scoreless innings, allowing two runs in the first, one in the third, two in the fourth, and one in the sixth.
- The Phillies offense did manage to get Kendrick a two-run lead in the first inning. Ryan Howard drove in a run with an RBI double, and Marlon Byrd singled home a run.
- Domonic Brown went 1-4 with a two-run home run in the eighth inning with the game out of reach.
- Cody Asche went 2-5 with a couple of singles and scored a run.
- Tony Gwynn started in centerfield, going 2-3 with an RBI.
- John Mayberry picked up a pinch-hit double.
- Mario Hollands had a scoreless appearance, picking up the final out of the sixth inning.
- Jeff Manship gave up four runs on three hits in the seventh inning.
- Luis Garcia gave up four runs in the eighth, allowing three hits and four walks.
Final Thoughts
Its amazing just how bad some of these guys the Phillies have in their bullpen are.
Look at the combined linescore for Jeff Manship and Luis Garcia tonight. In two innings, these two managed to give up eight runs on seven hits and five walks. And this was only in mop-up duty.
Its no wonder that we’ve seen Ryne Sandberg insert starter Roberto Hernandez as a reliever in certain spots, as he’s got a couple of guys that he just can’t use in any situation.
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Next 3-4 Weeks will determine the next 3-4 Year Future
Of the Phils..
And that will all be without Lee. That injury will likely take a month to overcome.
Hamels, Burnett and Hernandez are going to have to be dominant.
Reports that GM Amaro has Reached out for Roy Oswalt, Andy Pettite,
and Pedro Martinez to see if any of them are interested or in shape..
well the good news about the next three- four weeks is that we will see if anyone steps up or we get to do what you all wanted trade away vets and go with youth. even though the trade deadline trades rarely produce studs for the team dumping salary…If you examine it over the years for one reason or another they produce very few all stars. We can start galvis at short we all want that!
any word on the cuban pitcher?
Last I heard he was getting healthy, with his fastball hitting mid 90’s which is a nice jump up from the high 80’s he had going on in Spring Training, but still a long way to go…I wouldn’t hold my breath on Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez stepping up and giving the Phils anything.
Hope you are right Cigar. At least Asche is starting to come on offensively.
Gonzalez stat line in 2 starts at Clearwater:
7.1 IP, 10 H, 8 R (5ER), 7 BB, 2K
Yikes
yikes!
yeah asche is a professional player.
He moves to 2B (played some in minors) when Utley is gone and Franco takes over at 3rd?
and hernandez to OF?
Man the biggest disappointment on this entire team is DBrown… his 5 tools are pretty damn dull!
Makes sense to me. I love Hernandez. Then you just hope that Crawford can continue to develop and be ready in a couple of years. That is a pretty solid hitting core right there.
Yeah Brown is awful. Not good defensively and huge holes in his swing.