So who do you think will score next, the Flyers or the Phillies?
That’s right sports fans, your two-time defending National League champions got blanked again last night.
If you’re counting that’s three shutout losses in a row. They have failed to score in four or their last five games, in the process dropping five straight. Yes, that old axiom is true: it’s tough to win if you don’t score.
There are some staggering numbers surround the suddenly Phutile Phils:
5 straight starting pitchers have now allowed the Phils to score a run.
3 runs, what the Phils have scored in their 5-game skid.
.147, what the Phils are hitting in that stretch.
3 hits, what the Phils managed last night off starter Mike Pelfrey.
After Wednesday night’s affair, manager Charlie Manuel closed the locker room after the game to talk to his struggling troops.
Yesterday the team held a players-only meeting in the afternoon.
Didn’t help. First they sat through a 1-hour, 55-minute delay, but their bats remained under the weather.
The Phillies got out of New York and are now headed to Florida for a weekend series with the Marlins.
They should be in about the fourth or fifth inning when they drop the puck in Chicago for Game 1 between the Flyers and Blackhawks.
Hopefully the Phillies will have scored by then. Maybe they’ll snap out of it tonight.
Then again, this problem seems to have coincided almost precisely when Jimmy Rollins again was forced out of the lineup with a calf problem.
In the meantime, the Phils continue to flail. Incredibly, they’re still sitting on a two-game lead in the NL East.
That won’t last if they don’t score.
That’s right sports fans, your two-time defending National League champions got blanked again last night.
If you’re counting that’s three shutout losses in a row. They have failed to score in four or their last five games, in the process dropping five straight. Yes, that old axiom is true: it’s tough to win if you don’t score.
There are some staggering numbers surround the suddenly Phutile Phils:
5 straight starting pitchers have now allowed the Phils to score a run.
3 runs, what the Phils have scored in their 5-game skid.
.147, what the Phils are hitting in that stretch.
3 hits, what the Phils managed last night off starter Mike Pelfrey.
After Wednesday night’s affair, manager Charlie Manuel closed the locker room after the game to talk to his struggling troops.
Yesterday the team held a players-only meeting in the afternoon.
Didn’t help. First they sat through a 1-hour, 55-minute delay, but their bats remained under the weather.
The Phillies got out of New York and are now headed to Florida for a weekend series with the Marlins.
They should be in about the fourth or fifth inning when they drop the puck in Chicago for Game 1 between the Flyers and Blackhawks.
Hopefully the Phillies will have scored by then. Maybe they’ll snap out of it tonight.
Then again, this problem seems to have coincided almost precisely when Jimmy Rollins again was forced out of the lineup with a calf problem.
In the meantime, the Phils continue to flail. Incredibly, they’re still sitting on a two-game lead in the NL East.
That won’t last if they don’t score.
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