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Game 112: A New Look In Center

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Game 112: A New Look In Center

POSTED: Friday, August 10, 2012, 3:46 PM

Marc Narducci

The Phillies open a weekend series against the St. Louis Cardinals, showing a new outfield look. Nate Schierholtz, a right fielder since being acquired by the San Francisco Giants, is starting in center field. Dominic Brown, normally in left field, is in right, with Juan Pierre earning a start in left.

Roy Halladay, coming off seven shutout innings in his last outing against the Arizona Diamondbacks, takes the mound for the Phillies.

Here is the lineup:

1. Jimmy Rollins, SS
2. Juan Pierre, LF
3. Chase Utley, 2B
4. Ryan Howard, 1B
5. Domonic Brown, RF
6. Nate Schierholtz, CF
7. Erik Kratz, C
8. Kevin Frandsen, 3B
9. Roy Halladay, P

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Comments (23)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:54 PM, 08/10/2012

Ugh! A new front office look would be more effective.

— gentian

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:00 PM, 08/10/2012

Should we use our tickets tonight to see this 'new look' same result OF? Does Mike Lieberthal tip the scales? (heck no) Or do we reasonably expect that it will rain and the game will stink, as usual?

— PhillySubsMac

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:04 PM, 08/10/2012

I vote that you use the tickets and support your team instead of being a frontrunner. At least you can get crab fries and some hot dogs and boo Bastardo when Manuel stubbornly runs him out there in the 8th inning.

— jimbo jones

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:09 PM, 08/10/2012

I think anybody with tickets for any remaining 2012 games should get a price reduction since half the lineup belongs in the minor leagues.Lets watch the ticket sales next year if there's no new quality players on the Phillies.They reduced the payroll but not the ticket prices. As always the poor fans pay the piper.

— RonGon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:09 PM, 08/10/2012

— RonGon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:23 PM, 08/10/2012

LOL @ the new front office comment. i'm literally not going to the 5 games left I have tickets for. waste of too much money on parking, beer, etc. for no entertainment. i'd rather watch the game at a bar

— main liner

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:26 PM, 08/10/2012

Looking at this lineup I just had a flashback to the late 90s.

— guyguy4

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:45 PM, 08/10/2012

thats right just keep f$%#kin with D Brown until you trade him

— PhillyPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:50 PM, 08/10/2012

Oh, oh, I think is going to be windy tonight. Not a good idea to sit your best defensive OF and playing musical chairs. Not with Doc pitching. What the heck, is Spring Training.

— EL Zorro

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:57 PM, 08/10/2012

If this new look outfield does not pay dividends, you can look to see Amaro's next plan- a Hoveround with a pitching machine and glove taped to it.

— AreaMan

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:00 PM, 08/10/2012

Never should have traded Wilson Valdez. All downhill from there. He would have saved us from 20 Wigginton errors. Ruben needs to go...

— fins

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:24 PM, 08/10/2012

I guess we'll see if Brown will butcher RF like he did in the past. Is Schierholtz a CFer? This OF tonight makes me nervous. I don't mind giving guys playing time but this isn't fantasy baseball.

— AvoidSundanceVacations

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:25 PM, 08/10/2012

You have a wonderful player in center field tonight. I am a Giants' fan and season ticket holder until my husband retired and we moved. I am devastated that Nate was traded. Give him a chance and you will love him as we did. What he did for the Olympic Team he can do for you. Don't be such frontrunners. I waited for 52 years for the Giants.

— zuzu1