The start of the Phillies season has been something of a mirage.
Today they find themselves in a place they have not been in almost a year.
Looking up.
Jamie Moyer could not stop the bleeding last night as the Phils fell to the Giants, 6-2. Moyer surrendered 10 hits and four runs in six innings.
The Phils’ bats also remained for the most part silent.
New $125 million man Ryan Howard got thrown out at second when he eased up on what he thought was a sure double into the right-field corner.
None of this should come as a surprise to Phillies’ fans. It is April, after all. The Phils almost always struggle in the first month of the season. And they never seem to play well in San Francisco.
The only reason they got off to a hot start this year was because the National League scheduled makers graced them with the Nationals and Astros for their first nine games. They have found out that other teams in the NL make for a tad bit more formidable foes than that lowly duo.
Today they will try to salvage one game in San Francisco by sending the human enigma, Cole Hamels, to the mound. He will be opposed by Tim Lincecum. How do you think that one will turn out?
The season might just begin in earnest Friday, when the Mets travel down the New Jersey Turnpike for their first series of the season.
And that team the Phils are now looking up at? That would be those very Mets, who have now won six straight.
Let the season begin.
Today they find themselves in a place they have not been in almost a year.
Looking up.
Jamie Moyer could not stop the bleeding last night as the Phils fell to the Giants, 6-2. Moyer surrendered 10 hits and four runs in six innings.
The Phils’ bats also remained for the most part silent.
New $125 million man Ryan Howard got thrown out at second when he eased up on what he thought was a sure double into the right-field corner.
None of this should come as a surprise to Phillies’ fans. It is April, after all. The Phils almost always struggle in the first month of the season. And they never seem to play well in San Francisco.
The only reason they got off to a hot start this year was because the National League scheduled makers graced them with the Nationals and Astros for their first nine games. They have found out that other teams in the NL make for a tad bit more formidable foes than that lowly duo.
Today they will try to salvage one game in San Francisco by sending the human enigma, Cole Hamels, to the mound. He will be opposed by Tim Lincecum. How do you think that one will turn out?
The season might just begin in earnest Friday, when the Mets travel down the New Jersey Turnpike for their first series of the season.
And that team the Phils are now looking up at? That would be those very Mets, who have now won six straight.
Let the season begin.
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