But the 7-8-9-1 combo is enough to make Jabba the Hutt run in terror. Torre, Q, Jimenez, and Willy.

That alone might make this game intriguing to watch. I hope he shows something tonight.

That is familiar.

tell Kendrick that he’s been traded to a Japanese team during the game and that he needs to leave the game right then?

and a thro—ball falls out of glove.

Here we go again.

I can’t wait.

Yay! for Chase Utley.

Before this roadtrip even started, I remarked that it had a high likelihood of being the road trip from hell, ala last year.

I would be upset if I was right.

doubles in two. Spilly shouldn’t have dived for that.

They score 30 tonight. Easy. Followed by 40 tomorrow.

Rockies batters: 4, Runs: 0
Phillies batters: 8, Runs: 4

This is a problem.

It never ends. Ever.

It’s just like he’s a mind reader.

takes second standing up. Yippee!

Pour it on. Go for it.

does the Phillies announcer confuse Willy T for Rickie Weeks? At least, he recognized the mistake.

Okay, I know that the Rockies aren’t playing well and have had some bad pitching performances. But looking at the Phillies, they’ve been doing this to practically everyone they’ve faced of late (and their ballpark doesn’t hurt, either). So how much of this is bad pitching and how much of it is just plain hot hitting? I have to think it’s at least a little of both, but where would you put the percentages?

I’m not trying to be facetious or anything, I’m honestly curious.

Have totally given up.

runs for the Phils in the third?

Yay!

Yes, at times like these, I really need my small victories.

with a first-pitch groundout.

The Rockies are no longer a good team playing badly. They’re now clearly a bad team playing the way bad teams are supposed to do.

And what galls me—we never had the chance to do at least one victory lap around the NL with the respect of being NL Champs. Now, in the eyes of the baseball world, the Rox are just the flukes who went back to being a crappy team.

Sigh…...

Err . . . maybe not.

but, surprise, surprise, the Rockies don’t have any runs.

then the announcers said it was the end of the top of the 6th.

How low can Yorvit go? Any chance, any at all, that he’ll begin to lose starts once he goes under the Mendoza line?

thrown out at home. Kind of expected that.

not totally horrible note, Morales did not get completely anhilated tonight. It was also against the best team in the PCL and he only gave up 3 and went into the 7th. Oh how I wish he could figure it out again. We could really use a power lefty in the rotation.

So anything could happen after the rain delay. Of course I have been in the sun too long.

Update from the JUCO series: Western Iowa and Central Arizona demolished the all time runs record in World Series history this afternoon, final score 28-19.

we have one more game to go in Philly.

he really is dreamy.