• March 29, 2024

Notes From The Phillies’ 7-0 Loss To Washington

Dominic BrownThe Philadelphia Phillies lost their fourth straight game on Tuesday night, falling to the Nationals 7-0. Their record drops to 24-32.

  • David Buchanan suffered through a rough start, allowing seven runs over six innings.
  • Buchanan gave up 10 hits and two walks, while striking out six.
  • The young pitcher allowed three runs in the third inning, one in the fifth, and three more in the sixth.
  • The Phillies offense wasn’t interested in competitive baseball, putting up just two hits through seven innings.
  • The offense managed to put together a bases-loaded situation in the eighth with three two-out singles from John Mayberry, Jimmy Rollins, and Chase Utley, but Marlon Byrd grounded out to end the inning.
  • The Phils had another threat going in the ninth, with Ryan Howard singling an Carlos Ruiz drawing a walk to begin the frame. However, Cesar Hernandez. struck out, and Reid Brignac and Ben Revere both grounded out to end the game.
  • Ethan Martin, just called up from Triple-A entered the game in the seventh inning.
  • Martin was the lone bright spot, pitching two scoreless innings to finish the game.

Final Thoughts

The hangover from the nightmarish series against the Mets carried over to tonight’s game.

With an exhausted bullpen, the Phillies were forced to stick with David Buchanan through six innings even though he wasn’t pitching well. Under normal circumstances, Ryne Sandberg might have lifted Buchanan earlier but they just worked him through 112 pitches and sacrificed any chance that they had to win the game by allowing the mediocre pitcher to remain in place and allow three more runs.

After Buchanan finally left the game, it became an audition for the latest bullpen call-up, Ethan Martin.

Phillippe Aumont stunk up the joint so horribly in his two days with the team that even Ruben Amaro couldn’t wait to send him back to Triple-A, so now Martin will have an opportunity to stick around for a bit.

On a day when Amaro claimed that the team was “getting closer”, the roster he assembled turned in another terrible performance with yet another shutout.

Denny Basens

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E-money
E-money
June 4, 2014 12:20 am

Did he mean “getting closer”, or did he mean “getting closer to the fire sale”.

Phillies are 2 and a half games out of last place; only 4 teams in MLB with worse records.

DCar
DCar
June 4, 2014 12:23 am
Reply to  E-money

E-$$$$, you seem surprised? WHY? They’ve been in free fall, since Ruin 2morrow took over, & the last 3 years in particular, have been a stomach virus!

E-money
E-money
June 4, 2014 12:33 pm
Reply to  DCar

A little surprised that they are offensively as inept as they are, but not really.

I guess I was hoping that Ryno could squeeze SOMETHING out of this team, but he’s been awful too.

DCar
DCar
June 5, 2014 12:24 am
Reply to  E-money

E$$$$, I hear ya. They are unwatchable!

Eaglehaslanded
Eaglehaslanded
June 4, 2014 7:47 am

This team is one pathetic steaming pile of crapola. I went to game three in the Mets series last week just to watch dumb base running and ineptitude on the basic fundamentals of baseball. I’m not sure if the players are lackadaisical because they do not care or if they are just that bad, probably a combination of the two. Soooooo boring. This team, led by ruin 2morrow jr. is an absolute disaster and a joke!!!

paulman
paulman
June 4, 2014 8:36 am

How does Pitcher Buchannon even come out in the 6th Inning
When trailing 4-0 already… Another giveaway game..
This Team does not know how to compete all 27 Outs any longer
Which stems from the lack of leadership from the GM who lacks
Any Talent Evaluation, Roster & Contract Management and is simply
Way over his head as a GM in MLB… This shoot from the hips approach has been a disaster and has set this Phillie Franchise back a good 5-8 Years

mhenski
mhenski
June 4, 2014 9:07 am
Reply to  paulman

sandbergh is an imbecile also. fire him and let larry go at these pussies on this team.

5-8 is laughable paul

DCar
DCar
June 5, 2014 12:25 am
Reply to  mhenski

mh, laughable but realistic.

daggolden
daggolden
June 4, 2014 9:00 am

One thing is for sure is that they better move Utley and get the most they can for him before he comes up lame. Watching him bend over the other night after running the bases tells me its just a matter of time.