Two Game Recap

Game Notes...

- Due to responsibilities and whatnot, I wasn't able to do a recap for each of the last two games. Here they are...in all their...shitiness.

Filthydelphia 6, ATLANTA 4

- It wasn't that Buddy Carlyle was bad in his first game with the Braves. He just wasn't that good and didn't get a lot of defensive help outside a nice Andruw Jones catch. A few breaks and he's looking at a possible victory. But...they didn't come.

- Not that it mattered much because the Braves offense has Derek Bell disease. You know you have a longshot at best on the mound and the bottom six spots in the order managed 3 hits, all singles, to help the top three hits, who had five hits and four extra base hits. Giant surprise you lose that game. With Adam Eaton on the mound for the visiting team no less.

- Renty had the only big day; raising his OPS over .900 with a double and a homer and picking up all four Braves RBIs.

- McCay McBride and Oscar Villarreal kept the team in the game, though McBride let Carlyle's fifth run score after replacing Carlyle in the fifth. Yatesy got touched up for a Shane Victorino homerun in the all-Hawaiian matchup.

- Bobby Cox got ejected from his second straight game. I think of it less of a "ejection" as much as it was an "escape." He's now one ejection away from the record. The ejection came on a chopper that crossed the first base bag, but landed *just* foul. Ron Kulpa immediately ejected Cox without letting him have a word. John Smoltz followed after bitching at Kulpa from the dugout.

- Of all the people in the world, Antonio Alfonsixfingers got the save. God, that's embarrassing.

Filthydelphia 13, ATLANTA 6

- Ugh, it was 4-0 in the first and 11-1 after the top of the fifth came to a close. I didn't even bother to watch this game because I didn't have the power to not poke my eyes out and cut my testicles off. The Braves, still without Chipper Jones and still without the foggiest clue how to win games of late, saw Hiram fail, as Carlyle did the previous day, to get the Braves out of the fifth. He left the game with the bases loaded and just kinda sucked and the overworked pen soon followed in equally sucking fashion.

- Big number for Hiram? 4 grounders to 7 flyballs.

- McBride, Moylan, and Paronto were charged with five runs in 2.2 ING to complete the shitfest.

- Start Villy. Can't hurt.

- The game wasn't even half as close as the final score was. Atlanta scored three runs in the ninth before finally dying their slow and painful death. The only bright spot was Salty and Andruw's homers. It was Salty's first and Andruw's first in about three weeks so maybe they can take that with them up to Milwaukee. Diaz, Willie Harris, Salty, and Thor each had a pair of hits.

Here are the pitching matchups for the series in Miller Park.
Chuck James vs. Chris Capuano
John Smoltz vs. Ben Sheets
Tim Hudson vs. Dave Bush

I like the finale and Capuano hasn't been *that* good. Tuesday's game is obviously the best one of the series.