This week's pitching match-ups. . .
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This week's pitching match-ups. . .
David Murphy, Daily News Staff Writer
The third full week of the season brings with it a bit of a reprieve from the top-shelf starting pitching the Phillies faced over the first couple of weeks. The Diamondbacks and Cubs enter today ranked 13th and 15th in the National League in ERA and 13th and 14th in starter ERA. And it looks the Phillies are going to miss Ian Kennedy, Daniel Hudson and Ryan Dempster.
Now would appear to be as promising a situation as any for the Phillies offense, which enteres today ranked second-to-last in the NL in runs-per-game (2.69) and OBP (.283) to finally gain some traction.
A look at the week ahead. . .
Tonight at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.: RHP Kyle Kendrick at LHP Wade Miley
Tuesday at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.: RHP Vance Worley at RHP Josh Collmenter
Wednesday at Arizona, 3:40 p.m.: LHP Cole Hamels at RHP Trevor Cahill
Thursday - OFF DAY
Friday vs. Cubs, 7:05 p.m.: RHP Roy Halladay vs. LHP Paul Maholm
Saturday vs. Cubs, 7:05 p.m.: RHP Joe Blanton vs. RHP Randy Wells
Sunday vs. Cubs, 1:35 p.m.: RHP Kyle Kendrick vs. RHP Matt Garza
Comments (32)
Pitching matchups don't matter at all when you have an offense like this! Be afraid, be vewy, vewy afwaid......— Mark1npt- I have to agree-
when will the real breakout happen???— tblairhug57 - Christ.— Matt
- Can any of these guys Hit, or have they visited GG and CM already.— Phil Lee
- How many perfect games will the opposing pitchers throw against the Phillies this year. What's the over/under on two games?— Phil Lee
- After the next two series the D-Backs and Cubs pitching rankings in the NL will put them both in the top 5...even when Utley and Howard both come back will they be healthy enough to get the team back on track? It's so sad watching this team now...— tralala
- @Cheese: they letting you travel this week? That's the black-catter right there - the moment you travel we hit and crush people. Please book tix NOW!— 24sDad
- wake me up in 2017— warbiscuit
- This weekend, Joe Blanton followed by Kyle Kendrick......ugh!— Short Circuit 3
- Seasons Over— FABER
- Who says the Phils have faced top-shelf pitching already - Anthony Bass (WTF?) and Lubke (WTF?) Every pitcher facing this anemic Phillies lineup looks like a "cy young" candidate.
I noticed the Braves' hitters annihilated that knuckleballer R.A. Dickey five days after Dickey looked like "cy young" facing the Phillies wretched hitters.
Does Hunter Pence ever watch any video of his at bats??? Pence constantly hacks at every pitch regardless whether the pitch is in the next zip code - WTF?!— johnpaulcpa - LOL at all the "professional" writers on this website who 2 weeks ago seem to have a consensus that the Phils were "the cream of the crop" and predicted anywhere from 92-98 wins. At the time I was wondering what they were smoking. I guess foresight isn't one of the strenghts of the writing staff here.— guyguy4
- guyguy4 - right now the odds are more in favor of 92 losses than 92 wins. My bet right now would be 82 wins tops.— fischman
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- 2008 and 2009 the Phils started the season identical to this one 7 - 8 so all you assclowns need to settle down....who cares if they win 100 games this year, look what that did for us last year?!?!? Just make the playoffs, which they will do, and anything can happen.— phillysportguy
- How long till they call up Lupus, Engleberg, Tanner, and the rest of the booger-eatin' morons?— Chris Garrity
- Amazingly baseball prospectus still has the Phillies expected wins at 87, and has them still as the favorite to win the division (35.5%) and 57% to make the playoffs. Hard to believe based on what we have seen, but I hope their models are seeing some upside that has been hidden. here's hoping.— Phils Phan 28
- Most on here are utterly hopeless with respect to their baseball IQ - same guys that hate Howard are complaining re: team's offense. Take out Cano and A-Rod from the Yankmees or Fielder (when he was with the Brewers) and Braun from the Brewers and tell me where those two teams are....duh, duh, duh...that's ok guys, you can stop stuttering - what seriously do you expect? no starter on this team has averaged more than 20 HR/ season in their career except Pence. Do you really expect them to score runs...? Keep trying to think of an answer, maybe some common sense might fly into that vapid, empty thing you guys call a head. Good luck...— michael2_19030
- They missed Howard for 29 games during 2010-11. The team went 17-12 and scored just as many runs per game (4.58) as they did overall. Howard's WAR is pretty low those two seasons, so unless he was planning to break out 2006 before he got hurt, he wouldn't have made much of a difference. — jtj06
- Trade for Longoria and Coughlan/Morrison now!— Seegs
- Thome and Herndon for Granderson, Cano and Texeiro - ehhhhhhhhhhhh— warbiscuit
- This offense couldn't hit Single-A pitching. They've made every hurler faced thus far look like Koufax & Young.— MrLincoln
- It could be worse. We could be Red Sox fans -- trying to watch a sourpuss, hard to like team coached by an egomaniac and owned by the poster boy for Revenge of the Nerds.— eman
- I heard Adam Eaton may make a come back just to pitch against the Phillies. He could have a decent ERA. Then again, it is Adam Eaton!— palmyra21
- You know your team blows when Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels are tied for the highest batting average on the entire team. Roy Halladay is #6 in batting average. They are so bad it is laughable.— kelprod2
- @kelp.......I hadn't looked at it that way but you are absolutely right! I thought it was ludicrous when Manuel sent Thome up to pinch hit for Hamels the other night after Hamels had already doubled off the wall. Sure enough Thome stood there taking strike 3 and walking back to the dugout (again)....surely Jim must see the writing on the wall here. Maybe the pitchers can give hitting tips to the regulars/bench players?????— Mark1npt
- said it a couple of times last year pence is a wild swinger the ball could be 5ft outside 3ft over his head 2ft behind his back he will swing at it, many here were heralding his arrival as some sort of top level player...guess you were wrong, don't matter what pitching match-ups are this team does not score runs and when you don't you lose. bringing thome here releasing gload what a disasterous joke.— only 9
- Recent and current Utley and Howard are certainly not Cano and A-Rod. That is really a ludicrous comparison. Maybe A-Rod and Russell Martin is a better comparison. And in that comparison, I think the Yanks offense would still be miles ahead of the Pheebles offense. Heck, even the Cano/A-Rod comparison still leaves NY with a much better offense than Philly. I say that as a long time Phillies fan and Yankee hater, too.— MrPhillie
- Has been painful to watch so far...But I am not ready for this ride to end. Come on FIghtins, dig deep and ride this out. If they can hover around .500, then go on a .750 tear for 1.5 months like past years...They will be all right. Keep the Phaith. This is baseball after all, it is a LONG season. Go Phils!— miahjer
- This team is ready to flatline. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!— Eagle1Vegas
- It really doesn't matter who the Phillies bat against. It will be a struggle in all of those games.— john newlin
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