Know Your Foe #32: City Of Brotherly Love Hosts Rockies

by Russ Oates on Jul 23, 2010 12:15 PM MDT in Know Your Foe

Philadelphia Phllies (49-46, 2nd NL East, 7 GB, 3.5 WCGB)

Last Series vs. Rockies: 1-1 series split.*

*Second game of series was postponed and will be played on 9/2.

Kyle Kendrick and Greg Smith allowed four and five runs respectively in the first game, but it was Manuel Corpas's collapse in the ninth inning that put four runs on the board for the Phillies. On May 12, the Rockies won 4-3 in 10 innings on a Miguel Olivo homer.

Last Two Series Results: 1-3 series loss to Chicago; 1-3 series loss to St. Louis

The Phillies are 2-6 in their last eight and 4-6 in their last 10. Did you know that on July the winner and the loser of that game both had the last name Carpenter? I wonder how many times that has happened. Before last night's 2-0 shutout of the Cubs, the Phillies had dropped four straight.

Roy Halladay took the loss in his last start, allowed two homers, and gave up six runs.

Friday-Monday: 4-game series at Citizen Bank Park

Probable Pitching Match-ups

Friday, 23 July 2010 @ 5:05 pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Aaron Cook	4-5	23	18	2	0	0	0	106.2	114	59	54	8	41	49	4.56	1.45

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Roy Halladay	10-8	20	20	7	3	0	0	154.0	144	47	41	13	19	131	2.40	1.06

Saturday, 24 July 2010 @ 2:10 pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Ubaldo Jimenez	15-1	19	19	3	2	0	0	132.1	93	37	35	7	49	118	2.38	1.07

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Kyle Kendrick	5-4	20	18	1	0	0	0	108.1	113	64	58	18	30	51	4.82	1.32

Sunday, 25 July 2010 @ 11:35 am MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jeff Francis	3-3	12	12	0	0	0	0	70.0	76	38	36	3	17	38	4.63	1.33

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - J.A. Happ	1-0	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.1	9	1	0	0	8	5	0.00	1.65

Monday, 26 July 2010 @ 1:05 pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jason Hammel	7-5	17	17	0	0	0	0	104.1	111	50	49	10	28	87	4.23	1.33

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Joe Blanton	3-6	15	15	0	0	0	0	94.0	115	68	63	17	22	62	6.03	1.46

Expected Lineup

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Placido Polanco	3B	0.319	0.350	0.441	0.790	0.122	0.330	0.349
Shane Victorino	CF	0.253	0.314	0.448	0.762	0.196	0.259	0.339
Raul Ibanez	LF	0.248	0.331	0.392	0.723	0.143	0.281	0.313
Ryan Howard	1B	0.303	0.360	0.545	0.905	0.242	0.347	0.384
Jayson Werth	RF	0.279	0.369	0.498	0.868	0.220	0.344	0.374
Jimmy Rollins	SS	0.227	0.326	0.373	0.699	0.147	0.229	0.318
Carlos Ruiz	C	0.272	0.389	0.372	0.761	0.100	0.309	0.340
Wilson Valdez	2B	0.239	0.267	0.367	0.634	0.128	0.258	0.280

Bench

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Brian Schneider	C	0.241	0.326	0.392	0.718	0.152	0.254	0.318
Ross Gload	1B/OF	0.247	0.276	0.411	0.687	0.164	0.227	0.304
Ben Francisco	OF	0.231	0.288	0.352	0.640	0.120	0.264	0.292
Greg Dobbs	3B	0.202	0.263	0.349	0.611	0.147	0.225	0.275
Cody Ransom	2B/3B	0.200	0.231	0.320	0.551	0.120	0.235	0.244

Closer

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Brad Lidge	1-0	20	0	0	0	8	3	17.2	15	8	8	3	9	22	4.08	1.36

Injuries

Philadelphia Phillies Injuries

15-Day

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Jamie Moyer	elbow	07/21/2010
Chase Utley	thumb	06/29/2010

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A Phillies lineup

without Rollins hitting first? What is the world coming too?

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK

by jrockies on Jul 23, 2010 12:19 PM MDT reply actions

I just based

the lineup on the last two games, which had Polanco leading off.

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by Russ Oates on Jul 23, 2010 12:48 PM MDT up reply actions

If we can somehow steal tonight's game we should inflict quite a bit of damage to Philly in this series

Get well soon Tulo. The Rockies need you.

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:30 PM MDT reply actions

BABIP is going to swing our way soon.

If we can leave 7 on base against Josh Johnson, we can deal some pain to Halladay.

by UpUballingAllNight on Jul 23, 2010 1:21 PM MDT up reply actions

Some weird times for the series.

Everybody needs to have a heads up the day before so he/she doesn’t miss the start.

by CentralCaliRox on Jul 23, 2010 1:13 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs

The east coast start times

for Friday and Sunday are pretty standard. The game is on Fox on Saturday and that game always starts at 2:00. The Monday game is the only one I find to be weird at all, but the timing is just like a home game on get away day.

by jrockies on Jul 23, 2010 1:22 PM MDT up reply actions

Halladay

Could go one of two ways… 1) the last start against the Cubs was an aberration, no way he gets knocked around in back-to-back starts; or 2) much like Ubaldo, he’s due for a mini-slump. Unfortunately, history is on the side of #1.

by jasonwrites on Jul 23, 2010 1:58 PM MDT reply actions

Yes, but...

Back in May, the Rox tagged him for 10 hits and 3 runs (1 unearned). So at least the guys know that they can hit him.

Get your purple on.

by rockhead on Jul 23, 2010 2:22 PM MDT up reply actions

Were Giambi and/or Mora in the lineup the last time we faced him? I can't remember.

They both have pretty good numbers against him in large sample sizes. If that holds, and at least some of the rest of the lineup has success, I feel pretty good that we can get to him again.

by holly96 on Jul 23, 2010 2:27 PM MDT up reply actions