Game 2 Thread: Moyer vs. Perez
It's a beautiful day in Philadelphia for a baseball game. I'm heading down to South Philly to take in second game of the series with the hated Mets.
Last night: Johan Santana was every bit as filthy as all Phillies fans feared he could be when the Mets made the move to get him this winter. But he also had a whole lot of help from the umps. If you check out the video below, the ump was clearly giving him pitches that Mitch Williams says are six inches off the plate. Whatever. It's one game but it shows what the Phillies may face from Johan for years.
Dobbs made things interesting with the exciting 8th inning three run homer, but shoddy fielding and the inability to get to Johan proved too much.
Today: Expect a ton of Mets fans. I've talked to two of my Mets fan buddies from New York who both took separate buses down to CBP today. Between the two groups of them there are at least 80 stinking New Yorkers. As you may recall, today is the day Mets fans had planned to invade our lovely ball park. I'll be there defending the home turf. Expecting lots of trash talk.
It's Jamie Moyer against Oliver Perez in mid-day action. Let's send those New Yorkers home as losers.
Complete ESPN highlights from last night here:
Bad News... Johnny Marz died. Damn. Loved him.
Posted by: Danny | Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 03:42 PM
howard is just unstoppable.
Posted by: b | Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 06:21 PM
Jenkins needs to learn how to take one for the team when the bases are loaded. Don't jump out of the way when the ball is thrown at your legs in the bottom of the 8th.
Posted by: Walklett | Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 06:57 PM
I think the only highlight of the game was to see the game getting delayed in the ninth by a fight breaking out not in the cheap seats but right in the lower level by the field other then that the game blew
Posted by: themajor | Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 09:01 PM
that was horrible. metscum crawling everywhere, and going down 2-0 right away took the phils fans right out of it.
the highlight was definitely the fight delay. i was right in front of HTK's and you could see it fairly clearly halfway down the right field foul line.
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 11:16 PM
What, no photo credit, fellas?
Posted by: Fen Branklin | Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 03:10 PM
My bad, Fen. If you notice it links to your Flickr photo. I thought that was kosher.
But yes, the sick photo is by Fen Branklin.
Posted by: enrico | Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 03:27 PM