Phillies Spoil Julio Teheran's Debut With 3-0 Shutout of Braves

That it’s almost making my physically ill.

Against a pretty weak starter and a pretty weak bullpen. Well, you can’t score 5-8 runs every night. Let’s hope they bring the bats tomorrow.

I think Teheran did pretty well. It’s the Phillies, they’ve got some good hitters. True, they didn’t have Utley or Ruiz in there tonight, but they did have Howard. He was thrown into the fire and did alright under the pressure. The kid is 19 or 20, right? Coming into the Major Leagues at that age is not an easy task. It was really fun to see him pitch, and I hope he has a bright future in Atlanta.

wow people must be busy… Lets try and take the series tomorrow!

Teheran did alright tonight. I honestly had very low expectations given the debuts of Hanson and Medlen. The Phillies hitters realized early on that he couldn’t throw his secondary stuff for strikes and just sat on his fastball which unfortunately he wasn’t locating very well. I think he has a bright future but i would now put his ETA more towards middle of next year. He wasn’t fooling any of the Phillies hitters too much and he got lucky on a few occasions with the wind blowing.

The kid has promise but I feel tonight was kind of a reality check for how far along he actually is.

This experience in invaluable. It sucks that we lost to the Phillies, but unless we’re tossing Teheran out into a pennant race or the playoffs, could he have taken a tougher first start? He’s going back to Gwinnett knowing he took on one of the toughest environments in baseball and held his own. At this point, I don’t really care that we lost. Next time Julio comes up, he’s going to look at the his opposition and think “I’ve seen worse”. We just took one gigantic step towards the future with this game. Also here’s your reality check: he’s 20 and held the Phils to 3 runs when the offense showed zero sign of backing him up. Boom.

Teheran didn’t throw as many strikes as I intended, and he got into a lot of 3-ball counts early on. His curve, when he used it, looked better than Hanson’s. His change-up has a LOT of movement, and his fastball averaged around 93 for him today, tops 95.

I thought that I remembered reading that he had a slide or cut fast ball…

Kid’s going to be a stud. He commands that fastball well and his secondary stuff looked great last night. He basically made two mistake pitches (Howard’s dinger and Victorino’s Triple). We turn that DP in the third and things might have been better for him. Can’t wait til September when he’s up here for good.

When do you think Teheran will be called up to “stay”?

Pitched well. Dude is 20 and started against the NL-leading Phils.

My question: why does Kendrick own the Braves? Goodness. When I heard Oswalt went on the DL, I was bummed. We have decent numbers against Roy #2, but Kendrick owns us. Now, for an encore, we get Hamels. Yay.

OT: In other news, Verlander with another no hitter. He’s filthy.

With Teheran, his hall mark is his command. He didn’t have it last night, but that will not always be the case. It’s hard for any pitcher to be effective when constantly down in the count, and especially hard for one that relies on a change up that dies out of the zone.

When he’s able to get his fastball to hit the corners, opposing batters are going to be much more willing to offer at the change.

The only flaw I really saw was the curve, which he was tipping a bit. Still, he’ll freeze a lot of batters with three pitches that go 77 – 84 – 94.

That’s how I choose to look at his outing last night.

I thought the kid did amazingly well considering the scenario in which we put him in to make his ML debut. He wasn’t in command of all his pitches, but I thought he kept his composure and pitched out of situations that could have made the score last night much worse. I’m happy for him and think we’ll be celebrating his wins very soon.

Too bad our offense decided they still can’t hit Kendrick… 6-1, geez.
We handle aces on teams but pitchers like him make our lineup look like rookies sometimes and last night was no exception. The only thing I fear us facing more than this kind of pitcher is one we’ve never seen before. Our impatience at the plate (especially with runners on ) last night was pathetic.

Hopefully tonight JJ will lead us in a victory to take the Series. And, doing so IN Philly will make it even sweeter :-)

Not sure how much he missed by from my 2nd deck seats. Braves hit the ball hard but right at people. Bullpen did pretty well. Sherrill might not be that bad…ok, he did gave me a ball yesterday.

was impressive, but the phillies could have put me on the mound and beat the Braves last night. Lets get them today!

Wasn’t suprizingly loud. Of course the PA announcer pronounced it te-hay-ron. No one in the park had any idea who he was, or that he was only 20. From my view up top, didn’t seem as commanding as I’d hope, but since he’s only 20, it’s understandable.

Let’s hope next outing is more dominant.

JULIO TEHERAN (with Eddie Perez translating)

On the experience:
"It was the best moment of my life, being here in the big leagues."

On if amped up in the early innings:
"The first hitter, I wasn’t nervous but I was excited about facing a big league hitter, in the middle of that I was trying too much."

On if he’s hungrier to get back now:
"Yes. I’m anxious to get back here again."

On if family saw back in Colombia:
"Yeah they were watching me at home."

On if a difference in strike zone vs. Triple-A:
"I see the difference as a rookie, it’s going to be a close call, a small zone, but I’m OK."

On the pitch to Howard:
"I tried to go outside and I missed my spot."

We don’t just want half the Camel, we want the Hole thing!

Teheran pitched well enough. Still think he’s our future ace. Offense failure last night. I gotta keep it in perspective. It broke a long win streak. Braves are doing fine. Hope we take the series tonight. Even if we don’t, we’ll be fine. I hope we “Canseco” one off of Dicktorino’s forehead for a home run tonight. Go Braves!