Dan Uggla's Home Run Beats Roy Halladay And The Phillies, Braves Win 3-2
by TonyAlmeyda on May 15, 2011 5:12 PM EDT
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PrintBefore today, Roy Halladay had been 4-0 against the Braves.
It's nice to put a "1" in his loss column, finally.
Dan Uggla's eighth-inning home run off Halladay lifted the Braves past the Phillies 3-2 in the marquee pitching matchup of Halladay vs. Tim Hudson.
Hudson and Halladay dueled until the fourth inning when the Braves broke through first against the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner. Dan Uggla started the inning with a broken bat single and advanced to third when Eric Hinske hit a single of his own. One out later, Freddie Freeman hit a ground ball that deflected off Halladay far enough for Uggla to score the first run of the game.
The lead didn't last too long. Following a walk to Placido Polanco in the sixth, Hudson retired the next two hitters and faced John Mayberry, who had walked twice earlier in the game. Hudson couldn't retire him as Mayberry crushed a pitch to left for a two-run homer to give the Phillies a 2-1 lead.
The Braves would retie the game in the bottom of the sixth in an almost similar fashion to how they scored in the fourth. Uggla led off with a walk and another Hinske single moved him to third. Freeman drove him in with a sacrifice fly to left.
Uggla's moment came leading off the bottom of the eighth. On a 3-2 pitch, he deposited a Halladay fastball into the left field seats for his seventh home run of the season. Five of Uggla's seven homers have been solo.
Hudson didn't have his best stuff, walking five with only three strikeouts, but only allowed four hits in seven innings.
Jonny Venters earned the win with a perfect eighth and Craig Kimbrel finished the Phillies off in the ninth for his tenth save.
The Braves are now 3.5 games behind the Phillies and improved to 5-4 against them. They won't see each other again until July.
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Great win.
Now to keep it up against the Astros and then get ready for another long road trip.
Uggla probably had his best game as a Brave today. If he gets it going and Heyward’s shoulder is OK, we become awfully scary.
"This is gonna feel so good getting this thing off my chest. That's what she said."
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Agree
Our offense has been solid without Uggla doing much. If he catches fire, we will indeed be scary.
Question to no one in
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Particular: is Chipper okay?
Missed the game, but on the radio they said he was injured.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
see below
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
Ha. Good point.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
youd still give him a huggla
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
While not on fire, would he still be hot! Ha.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:34 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
but if you do that
than whatever is left of his clothes would be all stuck to his skin as if hed just got out of the pool
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
i know
=)
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
this
We have to keep playing like this against weaker teams. Great win and terrific series win. Man, if we didn’t have some many LOBsters the first game this could have been a sweep. Great outing by Hudson, especially after tweaking his ankle. Uggla came up big and while FF didn’t have as big as a game I predicted, he had s big sac fly. Can’t really anything about Venters and Kimbrel. Let’s keep this going. Go Braves!
Is the solution to put more pressure on Uggla
by batting him 4th? that’s his natural spot it seems for years… maybe he really is a clean-up kinda guy…
by Klemson Krash on May 15, 2011 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Actually
He has played more games hitting fifth and second? than batting cleanup. So, no
ok... so maybe that's been the problem...
look at his line when batting 4th this year… SSS and all.. .maybe Uggla dreams of being a clean-up hitter and wants to produce more there. :-)
by Klemson Krash on May 15, 2011 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Need I remind you? You and another went over there and pretty much rubbed the win in their face. That looks bad on the rest of us.
I'm a former CTU agent, so don't f--k with me!
I never said
BRAVES WIN BRAVES. SUCK IT PHILLIES. I never rubbed it in their face. All I said was that I thought it was entertaining, although it could have been better if the umps weren’t so bad and I also asked a question. I wasn’t even the first one to comment over there. But whatever…
I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t appreciate one of them coming over here and saying “What a great series!!!!” if they had, in fact, won the series.
And I already know you weren’t the only TCer over there. The point is, keep all that stuff HERE.
I'm a former CTU agent, so don't f--k with me!
Does anyone have a pic
of Jonny from this game? I really want to see what socks they wore with these unis
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
Uggla 3: Phillies 2
weird schedule coming up with 3 sets of 2 game series and a little interleague action with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from California in the United States of North America on Earth in the Milky Way
you should see the image
that just popped into my head
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
Breaking:
via DOB
Chipper has slight meniscus tear in right knee. If doesn’t improve with injection could face arthroscopic surgery and 2-3 weeks out
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
Damn.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:26 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Double damn
We’ll be OK with Hinske in RF for a bit, but we can’t survive three weeks of Conrad. At least we can move Prado back to third.
Agree. As stated below, hopefully Heyward will get back in the lineup soon.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:30 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It was coming eventually, he wasn’t going to play 150 games. Let’s just hope when he comes back he is effective.
by Buffalo Braves on May 15, 2011 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Can't wait to hear Phillies fans...
blame this one on the ump’s strike zone…
by TBuzz on May 15, 2011 5:25 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
hey... we were getting some crap calls too...
it was inconsistent, wide, narrow, up and down all freakin night… he gave the outside on one pitch… then another pitch in the same spot… it was a ball… gah. it was rough at points.
by Klemson Krash on May 15, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I would say
the Phillies had more calls in their favor by a pretty good margin
Paul Emmel...
Has a much longer track record of fucking us than the Phillies, unless you don’t count postseason play.
-C
It’s rough to sit through these games and not have someone that can’t hit a Ball?
Today was the first time Roy Halladay has ever given up an earned run in Atlanta
Wow.
I’ve got Jack Johnson and Tom O’Leary waiting for ya, right here
DOB
Signs point to Teheran for #Braves spot start Wed., after Minor threw 90 pitches today in Triple-A. “Obviously it’s not Minor,” Fredi said.
if im minor
im getting a little pissed off. first time was ok they didnt know they would need someone from AAA, but this time they could have skipped his start and called him up
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
How effective would he be on long rest?
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:31 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
well there were earlier tweets
saying they may just use him for 1-2 innings today, but they didnt do that haha
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
True. They could have limited his work. Good point.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:33 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
He can be mad all he likes...
It is probably a BS move to limit his service time, but he doesn’t have much of a case with Teheran being our top prospect…however, if I’m not mistaken, Teheran would have had to stay off the ML roster for 20 days, or this entire time counts as service time. So he’ll be picking up a nice little chunk of time despite spending a week in Gwinnett.
-C
It’s rough to sit through these games and not have someone that can’t hit a Ball?
Teheran will be fine. The D-Backs rotation is scheduled to have Joe Saunders pitching Wednesday, and he’s pitching poorly. My guess is they’ll send him back down and Minor will come up and pitch Friday or Saturday.
oh crap... Braves against a struggling pitcher...
great slump breaker there… :-)
by Klemson Krash on May 15, 2011 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Just as an aside, the Padres abused Colorado’s bullpen in the seventh, and it looks like they’re finally going to win a game for Mat Latos.
Flat-out great games
this entire series. Yeah, we could have had the sweep, but we all know Baseball’s funny sometimes. Nevertheless, I got to listen to or watch all 3 games this weekend and I was always entertained.
Now let’s tear some ass up as we get to this ‘easy’ part of the schedule, Chipper/Heyward or not.
This
While we should have won game one, it’s not like the game was given to the Phils. All three games were close, and we won two (four in the last couple weeks). No complaints here.
These two teams will be battling all season. Good times.
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by Jman781 on May 15, 2011 5:48 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
il drink to that
"Welcome to the show, Brandon Beachy. I think you’re going to stay a while." - Dave Cameron
I'm not
He has pretty good power and plays good defense. Your judging him in 47 ABs this season he’ll definitely improve on that!
I kept abreast of the score via my phone all afternoon - so glad we WON!!!
Congrats ot Uggla.
And…in my heart – Martinez won game 1 too, the ump’s epic fail just didn’t give it to him. Bet the Phillies know it too ;-)
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"Curve: The loveliest distance between two points." ~ Mae West
This is Doc’s 1st loss to us as a Philly. Remember KK out dueled him back when he was in Toronto so this would be the 2nd time we beat him
Steak, Shrimp, Liquor, and Pasta
Wins and Losses
Are meaningless stats.
The Dragonslayer beat Doc. We know it, he knows it.
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There's a reason Dan Uggla showed up today.
Happy Birthday, TL2!!!!!
CAU: Pronounced 'Cow'. Cuteness Above Uggla, analytical measurement that gives a factor of a player's cuteness above Dan Uggla. For example,
Nobody has a positive CAU.
Martin Prado leads the league with a -0.0 CAU.
Damnit
Why is it every time I think I might feel like watching a game on ESPN, it turns out to be either the Red Sox or Yankees (in this case, both?). I watched a Phillies/Mets game once, and beyond that, pretty much every time I watch ESPN’s national television it’s Sox or Yankees-excluding the one time it was the Braves/Phillies.
I’d definitely watch this tonight if it were anyone other than Sox/Yankees.
All Dan needed was a little "a" on his helmet
Maybe our sleeping giant is awakening. 2 wins against the Phillies wearing the throwback uni’s. Maybe they should wear them more often.
A baseball diamond is, most simply, the intersecting of four 90-foot baselines, and, most powerfully, the intersecting of seemingly random lives.
Love the throw backs uni's this weekend!
Love beating the unstopable Philth!
by UpstateNyBravesFan on May 15, 2011 8:17 PM EDT reply actions
What is the name of the short, muscular second baseman
for the Atlanta club? You know, the one who scored all three runs today and hit the go-ahead homer?
"Yeah, and I have an enchanted jock strap." -- Karl Karlson
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by Jacob Peterson on May 15, 2011 10:08 PM EDT reply actions
But anyways,
I was at the game. It was cold and windy (in mid-May… what the hell, weather?), but the game was good. The home plate ump seemed allergic to called strikes, but both pitchers battled around it (Huddy had a harder time). Great win, and series win. Now let’s beat a team that isn’t good for once.
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I now twitter as @junkstats and blog about made-up stats and general baseball stuff at JunkStats.
by Jacob Peterson on May 15, 2011 10:10 PM EDT reply actions
This win is a confidence booster.
Beating the Phils 2 series in a row shows we can beat them even with their much touted pitching staff. In fact, our aces have outpitched their aces.
wasnt for that horrible call on victorino on friday we could have had the sweep, oh well i don't mind 2 out of 3
ESPN can give the Philthies all the verbal BJs they want, Braves will still clinch the east!
by suicide bunting is a sin on May 16, 2011 6:54 AM EDT reply actions
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