Podsednik can sure fly when he gots a reason.

As fast a white guy as you will ever see.

You know what you're seeing is rare. Dodgers scoring 11 runs on the road happens 'bout as much as Streisand giving it up for a Black guy.

5 earned. He was due. Will still be 8-5 or something.

considering it was Kendrick & the Bullpen... it should be expected.

Good thing is IF we make the playoffs.. Kendrick doesnt see time on the baseball field. But we need him to become more consistent to have a chance of making the post season.

Well the Cards n' Phils are the 2 solid teams (experienced n' tough.) I'd expect them to be in the post. Anything else is up for grabs. Giants seem to have Lincecum go bad on them just when they need him the most. That's a bizarre team. The Padres are a gritty bunch of guys. They lack experience, but they've answered the question each time so far. Atlanta n' Cincy (to me) can't be trusted at all. As I've noted all along, the Dodgers problems are mainly 3 young pitchers that are together easily responsible for 10 losses that could easily have been avoided. They don't mature with age, because their problems are mental deficits. I feel a little better about the pen, but the team is being weighed down by Billy-Lea, Her Shaw, and Brox. They are loaded with talent, but they just don't have the hunger to beat people, and, therefore, they get beat by hungrier individuals. There are an embarassment to their maker.

I'll trade you the Phillies Bullpen AND Shane Victorino for your bullpen!!

Padres have some talented pitching.. and that is the most important part of baseball this time of year, so they should be okay.

I'm not counting on Atlanta to choke.. #1 reason is because they are not the Mets.. #2 is they also have talented pitching and in inspired group for their managers last call.

it will be a VERY interesting September.. when the phillies and braves face each other for 7 out of the last 12 games. Might have to buy some packs of Tums for that one..

Speaking of Cincy & the Cards tho... that fight was awesome entertainment. One thing I know.. if I was getting into a fight with a baseball team, I'd want Scott Rolen on my side. that dude that was kicking though was a big bitc.h.

More Crow for Chuck. Another gem.

Now 8-5 :D

He was due since his last performance was so terrible.


Maybe there is a way that the Phillies can skip him every other turn in the rotation? He can throw a bullpen session on his typical bad day on the rotation, then play in the game where he'll go 6 2/3 and give up only 1 Earned Run.

He had some decent location last night. He's just the type of pitcher that NEEDS to have his location spot on, because his stuff isnt that good.

He lucked out of the 1st two jams he got in last night. Of course it helps the Mets are last in the NL in all offensive catagories since the begining of July. But he has pitched better lately but is still holding on by a thread. the only reason he hasn't been replaced is the phils dont have anyone else and he works cheap. His w/l record is close to meaningless since he is getting 6 runs of support a game.


Those Who Need Support
by Eric Seidman

On August 5, Felix Hernandez toed the rubber against the division-rival Texas Rangers. Hernandez entered the game with a fantastic 2.79 ERA, and peripherals almost exactly in line with those posted a year ago, when he finished second to Zack Greinke in the American League Cy Young Award voting. The King lasted 6 2/3 innings against the Rangers, allowing three runs on eight hits. The effort might not have been his best, but the line was more than respectable against such an offense-happy club, and if his teammates were anywhere near average offensively, one might have even been able to say that Hernandez kept his team in the game. Unfortunately, the Seattle Mariners mustered zero runs of support for their ace, who would go on to record a loss.

Hernandez was no stranger to a lack of support. In his previous start, he scattered three runs over seven innings against a very solid Twins team and received, again, zero runs of support, recording another loss. On the season, Hernandez has a 2.71 ERA and just a 7-8 W-L record. Wins and losses are in no way the best measures of pitcher performance, but it still looks weird in spite of this knowledge to see such a low ERA alongside such an uninspiring record. But the situation with Hernandez lends perfect credence to the specific reason that wins and losses are not good proxies for success: run support. A pitcher can go five innings, give up seven runs, but be lucky enough that his team scores eight and walk away with a win. Or, Hernandez can pitch wonderfully, receive zero runs of support, and lose, simply because a pitcher decision can’t be handed to an offense.

In his eight losses, Hernandez has received—ready for this—a whopping seven runs of support. Yes, seven, and in four of the losses the Mariners have failed to score for him. Now, as I mentioned, a pitcher is not defined by his record, but it becomes very frustrating when dynamite pitchers end up with substandard won-lost marks when one considers how much this measure plays into the end-of-season awards. As Tom Tango recently showed, Hernandez's seasonal numbers are eerily similar to those posted a year ago; and when I say eerily similar, I mean they are really, really, really similar. The big difference is that last year he finished the season 19-5, while he seems more in line for something like an 11-13 record this season.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/ar...id=11741#64657

King Cole isnt too far behind in run support

threw a complete game 5 hit 1 ER. Mets won 1-0

Nava is back from the dead playing left for Boston after being "designated for assignment" at the end of last year.

The kid is essentially a walk on to camp this year and is hitting .180 at Pawtucket after 2 weeks essentially as a DH, a month later he busts the average to .320 and gets called up where he's 8 for 12 OBP his first 12 AB's playing left field like Yaz. The team sucks but this kid is facinating the way he keeps bouncing back from being kicked off the roster....

He is hoping to become the new Matt Stairs