chw42

It was bound to happen eventually. The Phillies may have been hitting poorly, but that lineup has a lot of talent.

They hadn't scored more than 4 runs for a 2 week stretch before scoring 6 against the Padres in the last series. They're definitely hot now.

Terrible series for Hudson

Only 89.9 off the bat. Not many sub 90 MPH exit velos go yard.

Finally challenged a terrible call.

The good thing is that those hip sinkers from a righty are very tough to spot. Probably why more pitchers haven't done it to him.

A lot of Peters' game is hitting seeing eye grounders in huge situations. It's great. But I don't think that's a skill you can just keep doing. Unless he's Ichiro, that's not something you can just keep doing over a whole season.

The pitchers coming up through the system all have great stuff, but have no idea where it's going.

Marsh has absolutely killed us all series

He's got a .378 BABIP on the year. I know he's fast, but that's very hard to sustain. Especially since he doesn't hit the ball real hard. All his underlying metrics say he's been overachieving like crazy. I like him as a player, but we've also gotta be realistic.

Peters gotta be one of the luckiest hitters in baseball this year. Crazy.

Once again, Nola benefits from a free strike.

Chase was basically on the bag when the ump decided to call that. Such bullshit.

Are you fucking kidding me? lmao

Sandlin had a lot of success that first start cause the Twins kept swinging first pitch at his fastballs. Turns out he has trouble getting anything else over in the zone.

I mean move him up.

This guy was hitting .094...

Meanwhile, Quero just pisses them away at the end of the game just to use them.

I nominate Peters to take Beni's spot in the lineup.

This umpire is ass

Should have been bases loaded 1 out. Gotta challenge that instead of taking your shin guard off.

He hasn't exactly excelled at bunting when he's been asked to do it.

Yeah Kay and Fedde have terrible FIPs yet ERAs under 5. I don't think our starting pitching is sustainable, especially against better hitting teams like we'll be playing the next 2 weeks.

I don't think he knew where his splitter or sweeper were going today. I don't think he does real well when he doesn't get a clean inning and needs to work out of trouble.

Looks like that walk-off win didn't do much for the Cubs. They're down 16-0 to the Giants today.