Phils (Park) vs Mets (Santana)

(14-10)	Philadelphia 14-10 (Road: 8-2) 7:10pm ET NY Mets 12-13 (Home: 6-6) TV: ESPN, SNY	(12-13)

Philadelphia AB R H RBI BB K LOB Season Avg J. Rollins ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .210 S. Victorino cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .308 C. Utley 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .346 R. Howard 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .295 J. Werth rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .264 R. Ibanez lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .351 P. Feliz 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .325 C. Ruiz c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .238 C. Park p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NY Mets AB R H RBI BB K LOB Season Avg J. Reyes ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .257 A. Cora 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .321 C. Beltran cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .404 C. Delgado 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .260 D. Wright 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .299 D. Murphy lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .313 J. Reed rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273 O. Santos c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .276 J. Santana p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB K HR Season ERA C. Park 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8.57 NY Mets IP H R ER BB K HR Season ERA J. Santana 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.10

My favorite team in the NL (Philly) vs my least favorite. Best pitcher in baseball perhaps (Santana) bs the worst. Should be fun.

Top 1: Rollins k's on a sweet changeup and Victorino pops up to second. 2 down very fast. Utley is back in the lineup after missing a few games, and works a full count walk. Howard comes up with 2 down and 1 on and strikes out on a high fastball.
Bottom 1: Phils Manager Charlie Manuel says this may be Park's last start, if he sucks, which he does, so it will be interesting to see how he does. Reyes grounds out to first to leadoff. Cora pops up, 2 down. Beltran strikes out looking and its on to the second.

Top 2: Werth leads off with a strikeout on a 1-2 changeup. He looks good today. Ibanez strikes out looking, thats 4 k's already for Johan. Feliz strikes out also. That's 5.
Bottom 2: Delgado flies out to very short center. Wright walks on 4 pitches and the Mets finally have a baserunner. I say finally because the Mets shold have like 8 runs by now. Park makes Vicente Padilla look like AJ Burnett. Park is horrible. Awful. Garbage. Wright is thrown out attempting to steal second. Murphy k's to end the inning.

Top 3: On an 0-2 pitch, Ruiz grounds out to third. No his for Phils thus far. Park draws a 5 pitch walk, somehow! Second runner on so far. Rollins is up now. First pitch swinging, drives a single into left-center, Park moves on to second. Victorino grounds out to first, both runers advance into scoring position for Utley. He grounds out to second, side retired.
Bottom 3: Reed strikes out to lead it off. Santos pops up to first. Park looks solid right now, I do not expect it to last. I want to reiterate this: he sucks. Santana strikes out, thats 4 now for Park.

Top 4: Howard k's again, to lead off. Werth k's next, that's 7 already. Ibanez strikes out but reaches on the passed ball. Thats 8 now for Johan. The guy is somehting else. Feliz groundsout to pitcher and the inning ends.
Bottom 4: Reyes drives one to the track but Werth runs it down. The Mets are a joke of a team, they have no chemistry, they do not seem to enjoy playing with each other, whereas the Phils seem like the best of friends. IF Santana were on a team worth a damn, he would win 22 games every single year. Cora lines out to short on the first pitch he sees, 2 down. Beltran, probably the only Met who is carrying his weight, comes up with 2 down. He grounds out to first, no hitter thru 4.

Top 5: Ruiz pops out to center. Thats just the first ball the Phils have hit into the outfield, aside from Rollins single. Park is up again. For the second time today, Park walks. Suprising. Rollins can't drive him in though, as he fouls out to first. 2 down. Victorino pops out to center. Still no score.
Bottom 5: Delgado drives the first pitch very deep, but very foul. Next pitch hits Delgado and the Mets have just their second runner of the day. Wright,m continuing his awful year, is jammed on a 2-0 heater and grounds to Feliz, who starts the double play. The no hitter ends on the next pitch, as Murphy drives a two out double to deep left-center. It was a pretty routine fly ball but Ibanez could not get to it. That should have been an out, we will see if the Mets can make it hurt. Reed works the count full, and rolls over a breaking ball and grounds out to Utley. 0-0.

Top 6: Utley drives one right in front of the wall but it is caught. Howard grounds out to first. Werth strikes out for the third time. Santana has 9 k's now.
Bottom 6: Santos strikes out on 5 pitches. Santana drives one deep but the park holds it. Reyes hits one into the hole and Howard stabs it on a dive, but Park drops it and Reyes reaches base on the error. Cora is up now, and Reyes will be running, I would imagine. The Mets, due to the fact they are worthless, need to create runs somehow, and sending Reyes is pretty obvious. Reyes bluffs and Cora takes a ball outside, 2-1 count. Fastball count now, and Reyes steals 2nd, taking third on the throwing error by Ruiz. Cora walks, runners on the corners for Beltran now. This inning should be over, and frankly, Park should have a no hitter still. Beltran, on a 3-1 count, pops up to left field to end the inning. WOW! Still 0-0!

Top 7: Ibanez doubles to lead it off, but the next two batters go quietly, unable to advance the runner to third. Park is pinch hit for, and Eric Bruntlett steps up with 2 down. Bruntlett k's, making it 10 on the day for Santana.
Bottom 7: Scott Eyre is in for Park, if only to face Delgado. Delgado walks on a full count fastball. David Wright is up now, and they are leaving Delgado in to run for himself, and leaving Eyre in to pitch vs a guy who destroys lefties. Wright pops up on a 3-1 fastball. 1 out and Eyre is left in due to the 2 lefties after Wright, Manuel's gamble pays off. Eyre gets Murphy to fly out, and Manuel makes a change and brings in Chad Durbin with 2 down. Fernando Tatis is called in to pinch hit, as he is 1-1 career vs Durbin, with a homer. A slow grounder rolls out to third, and Feliz throws it into the outfield, Delgado hustles all the way around and scores. What a horrid way to allow a run. Feliz is normally a great fielder, he had no chance to get Tatis and first and should not have made the throw. Gary Sheffield pinch hits for Santos. 3 errors for Philly today, first unearned run they have allowed all season long! Very strange play by Feliz. Ryan Church now pinch hits for Santana. So he will get the win, if it holds. Church strikes out, but a run is scored. 1-0 Mets, time for the bullpen.

Top 8: Pedro Feliciano comes in, and Rollins grounds out to him to start the inning. Victorino bloops one on the first base line for a double. Utley grounds out to pitcher, runner stays put at 2nd. Howard strikes out to end the top half.
Bottom 8: Reyes lines out to left. Cora flies out to deep right. Beltran k's. On to the 9th.

Top 9: K-Rod is in to nail it down for the Mets. Werth grounds out to third. Ibanez pops out to center and Matty Stairs is in to pinch hit for Feliz. He pops up to end the game. Hell of a game. Tough loss though.