Lindsay.....I would like to know if you thought to yourself ...Oh no WW was reverting to Snitwit stuff of well I am going to show confidence in my "Man"....I did...thinking we would get First half Lee and not the last 2 months. That's all I can think.. because l know so little but I know better than to let Lee face those 2. It's so unusual because WW did a great job all year he really did!!
You're 100% on track that he was doing the player's manager "trust your guy" thing that Snith (and even bobby) always did - I pulled the transcript of him being asked about it after the game:
"No. Lee is our high-leverage lefty. Put down the same part of the order yesterday pretty easily. Threw the ball really well yesterday. So no, that's his inning every time."
He was then asked about maybe calling on Robert Suarez instead:
WALT WEISS: "Not ahead of the other guys. Robert has thrown two innings in the last three months. He didn't jump the line. He would have been next, but he wouldn't have been in front of those other guys."
A disaster at Truist. I'm sure the Phillies came into this series thinking, "Just win one of the first two games and we should be golden for the third". And they are. Beside Dillon Lee, the two most glaring misfires to me today were Acuna (strike outs, ground outs with ducks on the pond) and Harris (in spite of a bloop single in the 10th, TWICE grounding into DPs with runners on 1st and 2nd earlier). Like we've said before, slug is wonderful when you get it but stringing together a few line drive base hits with RISP would sure be refreshing.
You do not let the other team's best player(s) beat you... And that is EXACTLY what the Braves did today.
If we lose tomorrow...and I think that even the most ardent Braves fan would have to admit that despite the old adage, "Momentum is tomorrow's starting pitcher" that the Phillies have all the momentum and history on their side. I will be stunned if the Braves win tomorrow. And it's gonna be a long effing off-season with the impending lock out to stew over this one.
We should be moving on, but we're not and we have no one to blame but ourselves. For those old enough to remember the old comic strip Pogo... "We have met the enemy and he is us!"
We didn't "Sweep the Phillies Leg" today... We pissed down our own leg.
Lindsay, you were right on. You go with who is hot, not who was hot in April. Second, what happened to mixing up your pitches, your breaks, your speeds? That's what keeps hitters off balance! You throw the same pitch to me 7 times and I guarantee you I will hit it hard somewhere in there. That's batting practice! Was anyone looking while Maddux was pitching? Glavine? Obviously not. Therefore, if WW/Hefner coach "throw your best pitch every time" they are grossly underestimating professional hitters. AND you don't go with "the one who brung ya", you go with who is hot in a 3-game series.
Lindsay.....I would like to know if you thought to yourself ...Oh no WW was reverting to Snitwit stuff of well I am going to show confidence in my "Man"....I did...thinking we would get First half Lee and not the last 2 months. That's all I can think.. because l know so little but I know better than to let Lee face those 2. It's so unusual because WW did a great job all year he really did!!
You're 100% on track that he was doing the player's manager "trust your guy" thing that Snith (and even bobby) always did - I pulled the transcript of him being asked about it after the game:
"No. Lee is our high-leverage lefty. Put down the same part of the order yesterday pretty easily. Threw the ball really well yesterday. So no, that's his inning every time."
He was then asked about maybe calling on Robert Suarez instead:
WALT WEISS: "Not ahead of the other guys. Robert has thrown two innings in the last three months. He didn't jump the line. He would have been next, but he wouldn't have been in front of those other guys."
A disaster at Truist. I'm sure the Phillies came into this series thinking, "Just win one of the first two games and we should be golden for the third". And they are. Beside Dillon Lee, the two most glaring misfires to me today were Acuna (strike outs, ground outs with ducks on the pond) and Harris (in spite of a bloop single in the 10th, TWICE grounding into DPs with runners on 1st and 2nd earlier). Like we've said before, slug is wonderful when you get it but stringing together a few line drive base hits with RISP would sure be refreshing.
You do not let the other team's best player(s) beat you... And that is EXACTLY what the Braves did today.
If we lose tomorrow...and I think that even the most ardent Braves fan would have to admit that despite the old adage, "Momentum is tomorrow's starting pitcher" that the Phillies have all the momentum and history on their side. I will be stunned if the Braves win tomorrow. And it's gonna be a long effing off-season with the impending lock out to stew over this one.
We should be moving on, but we're not and we have no one to blame but ourselves. For those old enough to remember the old comic strip Pogo... "We have met the enemy and he is us!"
We didn't "Sweep the Phillies Leg" today... We pissed down our own leg.
Lindsay, you were right on. You go with who is hot, not who was hot in April. Second, what happened to mixing up your pitches, your breaks, your speeds? That's what keeps hitters off balance! You throw the same pitch to me 7 times and I guarantee you I will hit it hard somewhere in there. That's batting practice! Was anyone looking while Maddux was pitching? Glavine? Obviously not. Therefore, if WW/Hefner coach "throw your best pitch every time" they are grossly underestimating professional hitters. AND you don't go with "the one who brung ya", you go with who is hot in a 3-game series.