Game 130 Recap: Braves 2, Phillies 3

by gondeee on Aug 31, 2009 8:50 AM EDT in Braves Game Recaps

Baseball is a game of inches, and it was inches that decided Sunday night's game. With the game on mute (it was only two innings before I could take no more of any of those ESPN announcers) I watched as the seventh ininig was turned upside down by defensive lapses.

Jair Jurrjens was cruising, and the Braves had given him one whole run to work with, and he in turn had given up only one run. With the Phillies trying to sacrifice a runner to second in the seventh inning, Chipper Jones thew a ball away on the throw to first base. Martin Prado said after the game that he should have gotten to that ball. It was a tough play for Chipper to make, and Prado would have had to make a tough play on his end too, but that's what winning ball clubs do -- they execute. On Sunday night, the Braves did not execute.

The next batter hit a double that hit just off the end of the glove of an outstretched Garret Anderson, and scored the winning runs. That was a true play of inches, and the deciive hit in the game. The play was initially ruled an error, but hometown scoring later changed it to a double.

The Braves had their chances offensively, including the very next inning, but a Brian McCann double play cost them a golden opportunity to tie the game or go ahead.

These are the game you've gotta win.

Final - 8.30.2009	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Atlanta Braves	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	1
Philadelphia Phillies	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	3	8	0
WP: Joe Blanton (9 - 6) SV: Brad Lidge (27) LP: Jair Jurrjens (10 - 9)

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ugh. Coste…..Ruiz…..those Phillies catchers always have the Braves’ number.

(self-appointed President of Yunel's Cartel~~~)
"The future is no place to place your better days." - Dave Matthews ~ RIP Roi

by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Aug 31, 2009 8:51 AM EDT reply actions

How close was LaRoche’s ball to going out in the 9th? I was watching the game cast on yahoo and it said “fly out to deep center”.

Did I also see correctly that Norton Kd to end the game? I know it’sa beaten dead horse, but does anyone have insight as to why this guy still dons a Braves uniform?

by CharlotteChop18 on Aug 31, 2009 8:56 AM EDT reply actions

not close at all.

"Ohhhh Shit."-Bobby Cox, 3/28/09

by 10-4 on Aug 31, 2009 8:57 AM EDT up reply actions

It was maybe 10 feet shy of going out.

Norton = epic fail (We can always pin it on him, but it was a group loss. We had our opportunities and, huge shocker, didn’t deliver.)

(self-appointed President of Yunel's Cartel~~~)
"The future is no place to place your better days." - Dave Matthews ~ RIP Roi

by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Aug 31, 2009 9:08 AM EDT up reply actions

ESPN is in love with the Phillies.

by blitzerlover on Aug 31, 2009 8:56 AM EDT reply actions

Sunny side up

The Braves have lost 2 straight series and somehow gained a game in the Wild Card.

"Ohhhh Shit."-Bobby Cox, 3/28/09

by 10-4 on Aug 31, 2009 8:57 AM EDT reply actions

Definitely a positive thing….we got some help from other teams for a change.

by NCChopper on Aug 31, 2009 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions

Agreed Chief Noc-A-Homa, the bottom of the 7th and top of the 8th are classic examples of why teams miss the playoffs by 2-3 games.

by CharlotteChop18 on Aug 31, 2009 9:10 AM EDT reply actions

And That's In A High School Park

by EastFallowfield on Aug 31, 2009 10:33 AM EDT reply actions

+1

lol Utley’s wouldnt have made it out of my high school’s park

by traphicg on Aug 31, 2009 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions

Apparently

Atlanta’s batters can’t either.

by Off The Hook on Aug 31, 2009 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions

ESPN

is in love with the Phillies because…they are the defending champions, and they win.

Way to have your #1 guy lose to their #3 guy, probably why you are 8 games back.

by Off The Hook on Aug 31, 2009 10:38 AM EDT reply actions

lmao

(self-appointed President of Yunel's Cartel~~~)
"The future is no place to place your better days." - Dave Matthews ~ RIP Roi

by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Aug 31, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Vazquez pitched last night?

"Actually, Justin was right."
by bigjoe on May 15, 2009 9:04 AM PDT

by justincredubil02 on Aug 31, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions

What ever

your #2 pitcher.

Doesn’t really matter, the Braves aren’t making the playoffs anyways.

by Off The Hook on Aug 31, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I still fail to see where this is relevant…your #1 got beat by our 5th best…

w/e.

I shouldn’t feed the trolls. It keeps them coming back for more – like a stray cat.

"Actually, Justin was right."
by bigjoe on May 15, 2009 9:04 AM PDT

by justincredubil02 on Aug 31, 2009 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Way to have

your #1 pitcher aquired from the Indians get slapped for 6 runs on 10 hits in 5 innings the night before.

by adc62 on Aug 31, 2009 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Don’t feed the troll, you guys.

by soup du jour on Aug 31, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Lets face it

The Phillies are in first place because they are winners. They have guys who know how to win. Sure, they may be only hitting .270, but they know how to win and do the things that it takes to win. Thats important when it comes to winning, and being a winner. You can hit .300 with a obp of .450, but if you don’t know how to win, or do what it takes to win, then you won’t be a successful team that wins. Look at the error by Chipper last night: if he was a winner, he would have made a perfect throw. In the same play, if Martin Prado knew what it takes to win, he would have come off the bag to catch the throw. The Phillies have winners, and Ryan Howard knows how to win, so he would have seen that the ball was gonna sail right, and used his winning skills to extend his arm an extra foot to catch the ball. Brian McCann hit a hard line drive into a double play. If he knew how to win, he would have hit the ball to the right or left of Utley so that it wouldn’t be caught. Thats what winners do, and thats how you win.

"Ohhhh Shit."-Bobby Cox, 3/28/09

by 10-4 on Aug 31, 2009 11:13 AM EDT reply actions

Yeah....

they are definitely winners, and that’s because they know how to win. Even if you don’t win, and you know how to win, then you are a winner. I can’t believe someone hasn’t figured out in the Braves organization that we need some guys on this team that know what it takes to win, because to be a winner, you have to know how to win, and those Phillies, those guys know how to win.

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti

by sddbaker on Aug 31, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh, and I forgot...

it’s the beginning of the end for Chipper, because obviously he’s never going to catch up to a fastball again. What a non-winner, aka loser.

by sddbaker on Aug 31, 2009 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Joe Morgan

is a winner. He’ll be the first to tell you.

by adc62 on Aug 31, 2009 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions

boom. nice.

"Actually, Justin was right."
by bigjoe on May 15, 2009 9:04 AM PDT

by justincredubil02 on Aug 31, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Fucking Garret Anderson

About ten minutes before the game I was telling my friend all about GA. I mentioned that he’s an all right player, and used to be impactful with his arm and his bat, but nowadays seems to be lazy, unmotivated, and just generally happy he scammed the Braves into a decent contract.
My friend is a big GA fan and gave me grief about it, and although I was crying b/c he straight dropped a ball, I was gloating that it was a perfect example of his lackadaisical approach to the game.

I would do anything possible to have that scoring changed back to an error. GA is a doucebag piece of shit who’s tanked several plays that have cost us several games. This is the fucking stretch, and we’re close to beating the phils and you tank a play like that. DOUCHEBAG.

by traphicg on Aug 31, 2009 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

That was when they went up two runs, and you know we can come back from a deficit of that magnitude.

If Dunn walks 30 fewer times, he'll drive in 15 more runs. This is thanks to the scientifically proven formula: RBI = (this is nonsense) (I made it all up).

Here's a stat: Wins as manager: Dusty Baker, 1,162; Bill James, 0.

by TradeAndruw on Aug 31, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions