For the first time in about 150 days. The Phillies played some meaningful baseball yesterday afternoon. In between sips of over-priced beer ($10 bottomless pints: great deal. $10 towers: not so great.), I even caught some of the action! Rather than re-cap the whole game, here's what you can take away from game #1...
- Halladay pitched fine. The Astros worked the count on him and did exactly what they needed to do to get him out of the game. If it was game #50 and not game #1, Halladay probably would have went another inning. Now the best we can hope for is 32-0 from here on out.
- Brett Myers is a good pitcher. Unfortunately, he never reached that potential while wearing the red pinstripes. The guy we saw last year and yesterday is exactly who he was projected to be. A series of injuries and "altercations" soured his reputation amongst Phillies fans, but I really feel like we don't give him enough credit for what he did in this town from 2005 until now.
- I was unaware that Ben Francisco was such a defensive liability in right field. Let's just blame opening day jitters on this one.
- David Herndon & JC Romero will do this to you all season long. I don't know what the front office sees in either of them, but middle relief will be a concern.
- Small ball? The Phillies scored 5 runs with only ONE extra base hit? It makes for boring baseball to watch, but I love it.
- Who out there had Danys Baez in the Opening Day Win pool? No one?
- The last time the Phillies went an entire game without striking out once: May 2009. Unfortunately, you don't get any bonus points for mile high infield pop ups.
- 162-0 is still a possibility.
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