God, I have always hated Moylan. And not too upset with McClouth being hurt. Andruw is available. Time to ship Moylan and McClouth to Chicago, imo.

KK with another no decision tonight. Guy can't catch a break.

lol I missed the game but just reading about the inside the park HR pisses me off

KK seriously cannot get a break

WTF ever happened to Jordan Schafer?

I hate to be glad about an injury, but hopefully some time off will do Mcclouth some good.

I'm not really following the minors much this season, do we have anyone that can step up or is it basically going to be Blanco or a trade?

LOL, Kawakami gets pathetic run support again, nice to see him pitch well though.

Wouldn't be much of an improvement with Schafer imo...same player as McLouth

Is Andruw even capable of playing center? I thought he got fat.

Anyway even if McLouth got seriously hurt I doubt much would happen..just give the CF job to Melky..have Heyward in RF...Hinski/Diaz/Infante in left.

Schafer is about where McLouth is in Triple A right now. KK was pretty good, too many full counts though...makes me nervous. WHAT THE HELL MOYLAN. He seriously pissed me off, and he did this same bit recently. Heck, we almost lost to the Phillies because he let 3 doubles in a row happen. Martinez was right there warming up, so what the heck? Should have put him in sooner. Ugh Bobby makes really poor decisions sometimes.

I forgot that Melky was capable of playing all 3 outfield positions. We're in pretty good shape then imo, we sure as hell won't be losing any production.

I'd rather let the guy who's been solid for 3-4 seasons and is known for inducing ground balls try and get out of the jam than some random dude who's pitched like once this season.

The pitching wasn't the problem today.

11 base-runners only amounting to 1 run pretty much sucks.

Apparently Andruw has slimmed down considerably. He isnt playing everyday but started out hot. Schafer is hitting like .218 in Gwinnett. It would be nice to have Andruw's bat, but I agree that is unlikely, though I am pretty sure je would love to come back as he has family in the area still.

I agree that Bobby sticks with pitchers a bit to long, but if you never give them a chance to pitch out of jams they will have like 0 confidence. I dont like Moylan though. I think I have bias against side-armers though.

Yeah he looks kind of goofy when he's pitching, but his results have been impressive for the last 3-4 years.

He's been fat for years. I read an article early in the season about how Boras finally sat him down and told him what everybody else in baseball already knew the main part of his 3-4 year problems were, that he was fat as ****. Apparently Andruw dropped like 25-30 pounds heading into the season. I was his biggest hater for years. He always struck out at utter junk to lose an important game every time I can remember early on in his career. I grew to like him in 03. I'd love to have Mr Gold Club back

Hanson is looking pretty nasty right now, 7K's threw 4 innings, and a 2 RBI single at the plate.

Dbacks pitchers have walked 7 Braves, and Willis is out of the game already.

Could be a long day for Arizona's relief pitching.

Kelly ****ing Johnson has killed us this series.

Big 9th inning though, Heyward gonna Heyward!

That was a pretty important win today with Minny comin up. This team has got to be on fumes right now. Now worst case scenario we end up being down .5 games at the end of the road trip which wouldn't be bad at all.

What I expect though is to win 1 of the first 2 games and then for Bobby to sit everyone who's been hurting for the 3rd game so they can get 2 days off in a row. So yea 1 outta 3 imo and still in first heading back to ATL.

But again we are in fantastic position no matter what with the schedule the way it is.

Absolutely.

I agree, this was a pretty big win from a momentum perspective.

It would have sucked to go into a couple tough series' against the Rays and Twins having dropped 3/4 to the D-Backs, and struggling to keep our lead in the East.

The bullpen needs some rest, they've been getting a ton of work lately, and the injuries are starting to pile up.

A couple days off in a row could be great for some of these guys, we've got a long grind ahead of us.

Nice post.

Yeah bullpen seems pretty haggard. I was happy to see Bobby keep Hanson in an extra third even though he had exceeded 100 pitches, bc he was super hot and I feel like Bobby has taken hot starters out before it was obv they were losing control. For the first time in a long time I feel like Bobby was perfect in the way he was approaching pitching. I am also encouraged to see that he is taking much more aggressive offensive approach.


Disclaimer-obv I am in not much of a position to ever question Bobby, but I do prefer a lag offensive style with this lineup to a tagnit style.

Not only is our bullpen working hard everyday, but we haven't had a day off since May 24, and by Monday we will have played in 5 different cities and four different time zones. Added to that, our games on the East Coast have had brutal weather delays, making some of them go past midnight. And, we've had injuries.

Definitely a good thing that now we'll have weekly days off leading into the break.

Yeah, I too am very glad that they will be off this long stretch. Plus we always do great at home...

look at the bright side, before tonight we've played the most road games in mlb by 2 full games and we're not even home yet. We've played 36 road games and the Yankess have played 34 with a few teams at 33.

That combined with our 19-6 home record (also best in mlb in terms of win % and games above .500) bodes well. The Phillies have played 29 home games which is 2nd fewest in our division.

All that said, I think we're in great great shape based on how we have withstood the road trip and 20 day stretch without a day off (the longest mlb allows for).

I'm really hoping most of the starters can go deep more often than not for the next couple weeks. I don't want a worn out bullpen deep into a pennant/wild-card race.

Well said, things are looking great right now. The way this team is playing it wouldn't even surprise me is we went 4-2 or 3-3 against the Rays/Twins.

After those series', we have a very nice stretch of games. There's a lot of reasons to be optimistic about this team.

It's a pretty good sign when we're worrying about how our 8th hitter, or the 5th spot in the rotation are going to play out.

If we can run good in the injury department, and keep the bullpen/rotation fresh, I like our chances of making the post-season. We have good enough pitching to be a nightmare in a short series for any team, if we get hot.

Tough loss. Lowe is going tomorrow ugh..but then again we don't have to face Liriano.

Oh well as long as Philly keeps losing whatever.

And yea I know NYM is there too but honestly I'm not worried about them.

You're going against Blackburn tomorrow. Something tells me you are going to score more than one run.