| In another battle of young vs. old, 23 year old Arizona pitcher Max Scherzer makes his major league debut against 45 year old Jamie Moyer. Scherzer holds his own for the first 6 innings, shutting down the Phillies while the D'Backs get a couple of runs and lead 2-0 entering the 7th. Scherzer walks the first two batters in the 7th and allows a single, ending his day with the 2-0 lead, and the Arizona bullpen falls apart giving the Phillies 7 runs over the final three innings of the game as the Phils win easily. Ryan Howard and Mark Reynolds, the strikeout kings, surprisingly only struck out once betwen the two of them. Why are they called the strikeout kings? We all know about Howard's whiffing (199 in real life) but Reynolds puts that to shame as he became the first player ever to strike out more than 200 times with a total of 204 in real life! Putting that in batting average perspective, Howard's would be a .326, but Reynolds puts that to shame too coming in with a .378 whiff percentage! If you look at the top 10 strikeout totals for batters in one season, all but two have been since 2000 and the top 4 have been in the past two years (Reynolds 204, Howard 199 in both '07 and '08 and Jack Cust with 197 in '08). Fun fact for the day: When Jamie Moyer made his major league debut for the Chicago Cubs in 1986, his opponent today Max Scherzer was still in diapers one month shy of his 2nd birthday!!! |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2008 Philadelphia Phillies At 2008 Arizona Diamondbacks 5/5/2008
Phillies AB R H RBI AVG Diamondbacks AB R H RBI AVG
S.Victorino CF 4 1 2 2 .471 C.Young CF 4 0 0 0 .254
E.Bruntlett SS 4 0 0 0 .189 E.Byrnes LF 3 1 1 0 .264
C.Utley 2B 5 0 1 1 .278 O.Hudson 2B 3 1 0 0 .350
R.Howard 1B 3 1 1 0 .234 C.Jackson 1B 3 0 2 0 .318
P.Burrell LF 3 1 1 0 .231 J.Upton RF 4 0 0 0 .265
T.Gordon P 0 0 0 0 ---- M.Reynolds 3B 3 0 1 2 .295
G.Jenkins RF 5 2 2 2 .333 C.Snyder C 4 0 2 0 .266
P.Feliz 3B 4 1 1 0 .234 S.Drew SS 4 0 0 0 .221
C.Ruiz C 4 0 2 2 .149 M.Scherzer P 2 0 0 0 .000
J.Moyer P 2 0 0 0 .167 T.Pena P 0 0 0 0 .000
A-G.Dobbs PH 1 0 0 0 .385 B.Lyon P 0 0 0 0 ----
C.Durbin P 0 0 0 0 .000 B-J.Salazar PH 0 0 0 0 .208
J.Romero P 0 0 0 0 .000 C-A.Ojeda PH 0 0 0 0 .235
C.Condrey P 0 0 0 0 .333 B.Medders P 0 0 0 0 ----
D-S.Taguchi PH,LF 0 1 0 0 .242 E.Gonzalez P 0 0 0 0 .200
E-R.Hammock PH 1 0 0 0 .158
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Totals 35 7 10 7 Totals 31 2 6 2
A-Pinch Hit For Moyer In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Lyon In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Salazar In 7th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Condrey In 9th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Gonzalez In 9th Inning
Phillies........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 2 - 7 10 1
Diamondbacks.... 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 0
Phillies (16-17) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Moyer WIN(4-3) 6 4 2 2 4 6 0 104 4.15
C.Durbin HOLD(3rd) 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 0 12 3.18
J.Romero 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0.00
C.Condrey HOLD(3rd) 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 0 13 5.50
T.Gordon 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 8 5.73
Totals 9 6 2 2 5 9 0
Diamondbacks (17-15) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
M.Scherzer LOSS(0-1) 6 4 3 3 3 4 0 85 4.50
T.Pena BS(2nd) 0 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 5.25
B.Lyon 0 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 2.53
B.Medders 1 1/3 3 4 4 2 1 1 34 7.36
E.Gonzalez 0 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 0 13 5.88
Totals 9 10 7 7 5 6 1
ATTENDANCE- 47,131 DATE- Monday, May 5th 2008 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Andy Fletcher, Mike Reilly, Bob Davidson, Alfonso Marquez
T- 2:44
LEFT ON BASE- Phillies: 8 Diamondbacks: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Phillies: 0 Diamondbacks: 1
ERRORS- G.Jenkins
DOUBLES- P.Burrell(5th), E.Byrnes(18th), C.Snyder(5th)
TRIPLES- S.Victorino(2nd)
HOME RUNS- G.Jenkins(5th)
STOLEN BASES- S.Taguchi(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- E.Byrnes
WALKS- R.Howard-2, P.Burrell-2, S.Taguchi, E.Byrnes, O.Hudson, C.Jackson,
M.Reynolds, A.Ojeda
HIT BY PITCH- S.Victorino, E.Bruntlett
STRIKE OUTS- E.Bruntlett, C.Utley, G.Jenkins-3, P.Feliz, C.Young-3, O.Hudson,
J.Upton, M.Reynolds, C.Snyder, S.Drew-2
GIDP- E.Bruntlett
Right fielder Geoff Jenkins hit one over the fence and had 2 RBI at Chase
Field where the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks by the
score of 7 to 2.
In the top of the 7th inning Philadelphia scored 3 runs when they had 3 base
hits. The key offensive moment was provided by Carlos Ruiz who quieted the
home crowd when he stroked a base-hit bringing in two baserunners. Arizona
was out-hit by Philadelphia, 10 hits to 6.
The winning pitcher was Jamie Moyer(4-3) who allowed 2 runs in 6 innings. Max
Scherzer(0-1) was charged with the loss. He allowed 3 runs and 4 hits in 6
innings.
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