The Phillies (37-28, .569) rebounded with a 4-2 week.  They won both series 2 games to one, went 2-4 last week.  They opened with two wins against 2 of the weaker teams outside their division, San Diego and Cincinnati. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of June 10, 2019 →

The Phillies went 2-4 last week.  They opened with two wins against the Cardinals.  They dropped the third game of the series and then went on the road and dropped a three-game series to the Dodgers. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of June 3, 2019 →

The Phillies went 4-3 on the road last week.  They split in Chicago (when they could have gone 3-1) and won 2 of 3 from Milwaukee.  They won both series openers.

The Phils begin another tough stretch with a 3-game series against the Cardinals at home before beginning a 7-game west coast trip that includes 4 games in Los Angeles and 3 games in San Diego.

Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of May 27, 2019 →

The Phillies went 4-3 last week.  They won the series opener against Milwaukee, then dropped three in a row.  They followed that with a series sweep of the Rockies over the weekend.

Now, for an even tougher week as the Phillies go on the road to Chicago for a four-game series against the Cubs and Milwaukee for three. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of May 20, 2019 →

The Phillies went 4-2 last week.  They won 3-game series from the Cardinals and Royals.  Perhaps one concerning factor is that they have lost the first game in seven of their last eight series.  “You can’t sweep a series if you don’t win the first game”, Danny Ozark, I think.  Or, maybe Larry Andersen.

Among their 4 wins were – Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of May 13, 2019 →

The Phillies went 3-2 last week.  They opened with an unfortunate split with the Tigers when they ran into a hot pitcher in Spencer Turnbull who had given up one earned run in his previous two starts.  That happens.  The second loss was a particularly brutal loss on Saturday to the Nationals.  Three unearned runs on errors by pitchers (guess they didn’t take spring PFPs seriously enough).  Seven runs by the bullpen.  That happens, too, but it shouldn’t happen to a team with playoff aspirations. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of May 6, 2019 →

The week started poorly with two bad losses to the Mets (1-5 and 0-9).  They rebounded to win the final game of the series (6-0), but then came home to drop the first game of a four-game series with the woeful Marlins (1-3).  (That’s 2 total runs in 3 losses.)  They bounced back again with 3 consecutive wins.  They got great pitching in games two and four from Jerad Eickhoff (seven, shutout inning in a 4-0 win) and Zach Eflin (complete game, 5-1 win).  Jake Arrieta battled and survived another bullpen implosion in Saturday’s 12-9 win.

Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of April 29, 2019 →

The Phillies played losing ball last week, winning 2 of 3 from the Mets, but finding a way to drop 3 of 4 to a Rockies team that started the series 6-12.  The pitching in Colorado wasn’t too bad, they held the Rockies to under 5 runs per game but the vaunted Phillies line up averaged just 2 runs per game in their losses.  That’s unacceptable.

Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of April 22, 2019 →

The Phillies played .500 ball last week, dropping 2 of 3 to the Nationals at CBP and winning 2 of 3 at Miami.  One major concern here might be the double digit runs they gave up in all three losses.  Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of April 15, 2019 →

The Phillies picked up another series win and are leading the National League East Division by a half game with a 6-2 record.  They have an important 3-game series with the Nationals before going on the road for a 3-game set in Miami. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of April 8, 2019 →