Shane Victorino Pulls An Aaron Rowand
If you watched another Phillies loss last night, I'm sorry you had to go through that. Even the Inquirer writers have lost their patience. Jim Salisbury writes of the loss:
One pitch before Sanches walked in the run, Victorino daringly dived into the stands chasing a foul off the bat of Eric Bruntlett. Victorino didn't make the catch, but that wasn't the immediate concern - his health was.
Victorino managed to lift himself from the concrete floor of the grandstand. He was checked by the Phillies' athletic trainers and returned to the field just in time for Sanches to walk in a run.
Sanches was replaced by Mesa, who also walked in a run.
Nice bullpen.
The crazy thing is, despite how bad the Phillies pitching is, they still only remain 5 games back of the Mets. This is likely just going to be one of those annoying seasons where the Phillies hang around, hang around, and hang around some more until it's October and they miss the playoffs by 3 games. David Montgomery can tell us how close they got and how Garcia went down and Myers went down and Lieber went down and yada, yada, yada. Then ... Football season!
At least we can watch Shane Victorino try and kill himself all summer long. Balls.
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I was at the game tonight in HTown, and for a good long while, I was TERRIFIED Shane had hurt himself. We saw him go into the stands over on the 1B side, and then he- quite literally- disappeared for a few minutes. When he finally popped up and walked out... WHEW.
Posted by: Texas Gal | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 12:55 AM
It seems useless to follow the Mets anymore unless we can get someone in the bullpen who can throw strikes and get people out. I dont know how much Alfconseca can hold it together being the only guy who can get the job done - and that is who we are banking on right now.
Posted by: Ben Keeler | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 02:04 AM
That settles it, I'm buying his jersey. Dude looks like Superman in that clip, he cleared 2 rows at least.
On a side note I caught Transformers at the Bridge last night with a few buddies. Assuming all of your worlds revolve around sports and women, 15-20 years ago it was probably Transformers and Thundercats. Highly recommended, 2.5 hours of pure entertainment, and Optimus Prime wrecks shit...
Posted by: hone | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 08:22 AM
luckily the Mets and Braves lost, continuing to help the Phillies keep us just interested enough to get disappointed again. the Mets also lost Perez (probably only 15 days, but still), so the Phils aren't the only ones who will have to battle pitching injuries down the stretch. we're the only ones that have to endure Jose Mesa though.
Vic just continues to do everything he can to make this town love him. he's got more homers than Burrell (helped by the fact that he gets to play), and this town just loves that all-out attitude. he's not some for-who-for-what? guy, not a Kenny Lofton type, and it's just a reminder that even though the Phils are barely above .500, there's still a lot of reasons to watch them play.
I'm with Hone on the Transformers too.
Posted by: Matt P | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 08:52 AM
I want to see Transformers, thanks for the recommendation. My recommendation if you raunchy humor that still has a good plot...Knocked Up...laughed the entire movie.
Oh yeah, Phillies...Shane Victorino is awesome. He's exciting like Jose Gay-Ass...I mean Reyes.
Posted by: GM-Carson | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 08:58 AM
Don't youse think Abreu woulda gave the same effort on that play as Shane did?
And I'm waiting on the Go-Bots movie.
Posted by: meech.one | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 09:00 AM
i love shane, and his music tastes (check out WXPN for an extended interview and DJ set he did) but this was a bit silly. the effort is awesome, and the "whatever it takes" attitude is appreciated in philly, but he cant get hurt. i know he isnt thinking that during the play, and compared to our previous RF it is a serious defensive upgrade, but there has to be limits.
anyone see Basebball Tonight on Sunday where they debated Rollins Vs. Reyes as an All-Star?
Posted by: the Krisheim | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 09:56 AM
Did you see Rowand laughing with Vic after the play giving him the look like, "that was pretty ballsy, but i ran face first into a chain-link fence at full speed"
I heard Transformers was horrible. I need to see a Mask movie.
And not the movie Mask with the redhead dude who had a jacked up face.
Posted by: Walklett | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 12:06 PM
Someone on here said a couple of days ago said he has reached his ceiling the guy is as close to an all star as you can get all star games much like the hall of fame is all about offensive numbers this guy has everything offense defense speed great arm some pop he is only going to get better. If Pat Burrell would just play harder like Rowand and Vic he would hear less boo's has anyone ever seen Pat put it all out in risk of injury on one play never!
Posted by: sam | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 02:11 PM
I agree that the guy plays balls to the wall every night but lets not shit ourselves over him just quite yet. a .340 obp and .760 ops is not exactly stellar, and should not earn you a spot on an all-star team.
regardless, all-star game appearances are quite possibly the worst way to evaluate a player.
Posted by: pilgrim | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 02:35 PM
Check out the dude in the shirt that looks like JR RIchard wore it back in the day!
Posted by: Chris | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 04:31 PM