Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 11:32 PM | 17 comments |
 

Phillies take notice of Utley beaning; plus, Eaton update
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Though the Phillies did not react on the field last night, they certainly took notice of Nationals’ reliever Jesus Colome’s eighth-inning pitch that hit Chase Utley in the back.

 
“The catcher set right in behind him,” Manuel said. “Yeah, he threw at him. No doubt about it.”


The play was likely in retaliation for two pitches by Kyle Kendrick that hit batters, one of which hit Nationals star Ryan Zimmerman on the wrist and knocked him out of the game. Neither was intentional. Utley appeared to glare at Colome as he ran to first base, but that was the extent of the fireworks.


Could there be retaliation in store in the future?


“That’s something you don’t say a word about,” Manuel said.


Utley took the high road after the game.


“It’s part of the game. No big deal,” he said. The important thing is, we won.”


But his teammates took notice.


“It’s a baseball thing, it definitely is,” short stop Jimmy Rollins said coyly. “But there’s a little more to that baseball thing.”

 

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FYI: Adam Eaton gave up four runs in 3 2/3 innings of his first minor league start for Class A Lakewood tonight.
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:15 AM, 08/01/2008
    Adam Eaton to be demoted to Little League World Series bullpen duty.
    — maximusud
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:15 AM, 08/01/2008
    Adam Eaton to be demoted to Little League World Series bullpen duty.
    — maximusud
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:00 AM, 08/01/2008
    How can the Phillies be talking about retaliation when the Phillies beaned Belliard not once but twice in the series? When you are ahead 8-2 and about to sweep the other team but you are throwing beanballs, that's adding insult to injury. The Phillies should have expected that one of their players would be drilled.
    — Metropolitan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:12 AM, 08/01/2008
    Adam Eaton continues to get hit around, this time by Single A players.
    — BobbyD
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:28 AM, 08/01/2008
    Eaton is in LOW A.....I thought he was going to LV?
    — Adam from Telford
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:04 AM, 08/01/2008
    The word "beaned" is being used incorrectly here. To bean someone means to hit them in the head with a pitched ball. No player was hit in the head.
    — ErikT
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:09 AM, 08/01/2008
    Who is Adam Eaton ?
    — mick314
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:45 AM, 08/01/2008
    Rollins is beginning to annoy me. He always has something to say, and the reporters know it, so they go up to him after every game to ask questions. It reminds me of L.J. Smith of the Eagles, who is nowhere near Rollins' stature or ability in his sport, but still seems to seek out attention, which makes his commentary even more annoying. In any event, Rollins once said in an interview for Men's Journal that he tells Chase Utley that he (meaning Utley) could be a "marketer's dream" if he just smiled more, did more interviews, and tried to get more endorsement deals. That's how Rollins thinks, and I hate it. I love Utley's approach, on the other hand.
    — TheRock2020
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:15 AM, 08/01/2008
    One of the worst free agent signing in Baseball history. What did other teams see and the Phillies did not see? Just checkout his life time stats. This was a real gamble! This was a bone headed move that cost the team money they could have used on a "quality" player. Get this: In 2006 the Texas Rangers paid him $4,650,000. No team wanted to pay this for a 5th or 6th starter! So when the Phillies signed him in late November for $7,208,333. Teams laughed! Plus he was coming off another pitching related injury. During the Bill Giles Dynasty, Joe Morgan once said, "the Phillies will never win as long as they continue to sign(or resign) injured pitchers." This has been the current owners modus of operandi. Look for the cheaper player and take a gamble. In Adam Eaton they kind of changed their operation. They did sign an injured pitcher. They did not get him cheap! They kind of did a "Pat"-ent goof! This ownership really needs to let go and let someone else run the team that has a baseball pedigree and deep pockets(to spend). A long jumper with a desire to win at the Peking Olympics trains and listens to some advice. Though there is a desire he will never win against long jumpers who have more then one leg. So it is with the Owners of the Phillies.
    — MooseBreathMints
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:18 AM, 08/01/2008
    Erik...your a loser dude, get a life
    — TR
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:41 AM, 08/01/2008
    Hey Adam....my softball team needs a new pitcher. I'm not talking about you...just thought you might know someone.
    — BurbGuy
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:51 AM, 08/01/2008
    Sounds like we got a bunch of sore losers down there in DC. 70 losses by the end of July will do that to you.
    — GHOSTPHAYCE
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:14 AM, 08/01/2008
    The entire phillies staff has no guts in my opinion when it comes to things like this. When Fernando Tatis relived the two good weeks he had in 2006 and held his own personal party, he should have been thrown at. When Reyes pulled a Kirk Gibson running around the bases after a homer, he should have been beaned. When guys like Utley get hit time after time (although sometimes his own fault) there needs to be some justice taken. That is old school baseball and that is how you control a game. Sounds barbaric I know, but actions like that help keep balance in the game.
    — rvb2321
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:54 AM, 08/01/2008
    Bruised wrist is all right but Kendrick should've broken bones, the Nationals suck and Belliard might be the worst/stupidest baseball player in the majors he should be happy when he gets hit, at least he gets on base
    — Fightinsfaithful
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:04 PM, 08/01/2008
    The Phillies are way off base here (as was that jacka$$ Mitch Williams after the game last night)... The Nats were retaliating, protecting THEIR hitters... Phillies pitching had hit 4 batters in the series, Belliard twice, Zimmerman, who just came off the DL, in the same spot the Nats hit Utley last year. That warranted a message. They were protecting their hitters, Colome made their point, and he did it right. He hit the Phillies best hitter in the back, where you are supposed to, and that was the end of it, as it should have been. You were thumping them 8-2, sweeping them in their house, with more of your own fans on hand than theirs, on your way out of town. Why get yourself in a beanball war, get one of your already overused relief pitchers suspended, start a brawl and risk suspension/injury to a key player, AND give the Nats motivation to wreck your season the way they wrecked the Mets' season last year? We still have 9 games left in the season against them, including the final 3 of the year, which may turn out to be as pivotal as they were last year? Retaliating there would not only have been stupid, but unprofessional. We hit them, they hit us back, end of story. Only an idiot like Mitch, or that punk Coco Crisp, would see it otherwise.
    — acerulli


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David Murphy joined the Daily News as its Phillies beat writer in February of 2008. Born in Upper Merion and raised in the Poconos, he attended college at La Salle University before taking jobs with the Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Sun-News and the St. Petersburg ( Fla. ) Times. E-mail Dave at dmurphy@phillynews.com.

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