Gameday: Phillies (37-34) At Blue Jays (41-34)
Posted by Amanda Orr, Sat, June 27, 2009 12:00 PM
Philadelphia Phillies (37-34) at Toronto Blue Jays (41-34)
J.A Happ (4-0, 3.47 ERA) vs. Brad Mills (0-0, 9.82 ERA)
Time: 1:07 p.m at Rogers Centre
Weather: Dome
TV: MY PHL17
Twitter: Phillies Nation
The Phillies had a 20 minute closed door meeting after Friday’s game and hopefully that can put some fire under their belts after a month long struggle.
An offensive explosion would be perfect for the Phillies to redeem themselves after being quieted by Ricky Romero last night. They are facing Brad Mills, who they knocked around in the series in Philadelphia. Mills took the no decision in the Blue Jays’ 8-7 win. In his Major League debut, Mills threw 94 pitches in 3.2 innings. The Phillies scored four runs off Mills including home runs by Jayson Werth and Jimmy Rollins. Also, the Phillies need to take advantage of Mills eight day layoff.
Offense helps, but the Phillies also need good pitching from starter J.A Happ and from the bullpen.
Your Gameday Beer: In the summer, cold amber brews are always refreshing thanks to their light body and smooth flavors. New Belgium Fat Tire Amber Ale is no exception. The first time I had a Fat Tire was across the street from Coors Field at Pat’s Cheesesteak, a Phillies bar. Inspired by Belgium (both the brewing style and the country) this delicious beer has a toasty and inviting aroma. Although it’s not yet available east of the Mississippi, for those of you in the distribution area, have some fresh ravioli stuffed with cheese or seasonal veggies. - By Brian
Go Phillies!
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June 27th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I had my first Fat Tire in AZ last year after hearing rave reviews! We need that stuff on the East Coast!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
WERTH!!!!!!!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
This streak has been very tough on me so I have made a rule that if we don’t score in the first I’m not going to watch the game….until further notice.
OHHHHH YEAHHHHH! Looks like I’m watching today!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
HOMERUN!!!
Fat Tire is a delicious beer, I was just in Colorado and went into the Liquor store and just asked a regular customer what a good local beer was. He suggested this beer and he was right.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
FELIZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Ok, can we please hold a 4 run lead today? The last time we scored 4 in the first, disaster was right around the corner.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
excellent catch by Jr. there!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
a pitcher who can actually hold a 4 run lead!! finally…
June 27th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Oops… forgot that today was a 1PM game! But … am I the only one who finds that 4-run first nerve-wrackingly familiar?
June 27th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Oh, nice catch! Fortunately, Canadians don’t interfere with players.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Were gonna lose if we don’t score atleast 10 runs we stink this year really STINK….sorry but its reality
June 27th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
nah we won’t need 10 runs today
June 27th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
hee hee! I’ll take that hit!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I hope not….need a win ….big time …hoping I’m wrong…lately I can’t even watch….
June 27th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Did anyone hear a measurement for JWerth’s bomb? It had to be 500 feet
June 27th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
mills is def. hittable – a 9.82 ERA?? is that even serious? they need to crush him
June 27th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
BJSally….correction, we really stink in the last three weeks. Before that we were one of the top 3 teams in baseball. All we need is three weeks in the opposite direction and we will climb out of our stinky stinkiness.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
nm that is only in 1 or 2 starts though so while it’s a high ERA its not over the course of a few months or anything. We hit him well in Philly but our pitchers blew it.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
The Phillies always stink in Interleague play.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Probably the biggest thing we have going for us today is that Rolen and Barajas aren’t playing. If we can just keep the formal Phils out of the lineup we should be in good shape.
Nice DP!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Bea-u-ti-ful!
June 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
former Phils not formal Phils
June 27th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Happ looks wild and pretty hittable so far today. He has already dodged a couple bullets. Hopefully we can tack a few on in case he runs into trouble.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
has anyone heard more about this? from zlecki’s ttwitter…
A Phillies player was involved in an incident with a Rays fan Thursday night. Police were involved: http://tinyurl.com/la8dl
June 27th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
benching Rollins is pointless, Bruntlett can’t hit
but woo Ruiz
June 27th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Hello my name is Kevin. I’m from Canada and lets go Jays!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
See if anyone else is with me here….as bad as JRoll has been, does it really make sense to sit him and have Bruntlett in the lineup? Might as well just hit JRoll 7 or 8 and the lineup looks so much better. I understand that Chollie wanted to give him time to chill out and get things together, but the Beard cannot do anything positive on the offensive end.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
lets go Jays we can win this one.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Werth for the cycle?
June 27th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
JWerth needs a triple….
June 27th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Good Job Werth! One triple away from the cycle and 3-3 today!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Yeah, but the triple is the hardest part of the cycle to get
June 27th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Oh yes!!! RYAN!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
woo more runs
June 27th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I don’t know what Chollie said to these guys, but I wish he’d said it a week ago!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
yea im curious to see which phillies player got in an altercation with a rays fan……if anyone knows more about the situation keep us updated
June 27th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Mets are boring
June 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
phillies offense on fire baby!!!!!!!!WHOOO!!!!!!!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
bases loaded
June 27th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
hmm
June 27th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
nice Coste!
oo Bruntlett with bases loaded?
June 27th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
seriously, charlie needs to have a “talk” with these guys more often if this is the way they play after it!!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
WHEE!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Hey, BJ! They’ve almost got those 10 runs for you!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
A Florida newspaper has the story in the incident between a Phillies player and a Rays fan. The paper reports it was Romero, who refused to give the fan an autograph. The fan responded with some smart-a$$ remarks about steroids, to the player who just got back from a 50-day suspension for a technical drug policy violation. See it here:
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/ml/article1013913.ece
June 27th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
And of course, the Rays fan, who is so seriously injured that he has time to give newspaper interviews, has hired a lawyer. (rolls eyes)
June 27th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Guess the Jays fans won’t be chanting “Phillies Suck”
June 27th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
@AJ: Not unless they already have a lawyer lined up.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
That guy is full of sh1t! And if he was heckling him after not getting autographs from Phillies players he deserved it! These players are still human beings
June 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
It sounds like, even according to the “victim”, Romero didn’t do much more than shove him.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Yeah, let’s keep in mind that the newspaper is only reporting the Rays fan’s side of the story; nobody on the Phillies side has said anything.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
WOW JAYSON WERTH!!!!!!!!
Told ya June would be a good month for him!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
WERTH!!!!!!!! again
June 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Woo hoo! But Jayson, you’ll never hit for the cycle if you keep hitting those HRs!
And BJ: You’ve got your 10!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
he loves playing against Toronto
June 27th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
What is up with Werth? He is deinitely on a roll
June 27th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
So I just got home and no phillies game on tv in vermont, so all I got is the nation and mlb.com,
Someone said earlier that Happ was wild and hittable. 3 hits and 50 some pitches through 5 how is that either of those things. Bruntlet got a sac fly that is something positive offensivly. Lets just keep scoring runs and belive we can win today
June 27th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I guess Romero doesn’t like to give autographs
June 27th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Actually, it looks like nobody was giving out autographs at the time. The article says that “players” brushed the Rays fan off. This idiot just happens to have chosen to vent on Romero. Might as well rub a little salt in the fresh wound and see what happens.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
so J Werth ;m;ust like hitting in the two hole, maybe we move Vic down to six or five to break up the lefties lol
June 27th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Howard’s hot today too!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
beta sigma shag – yeah blacked out in SC too. I have XM on. These announcers hate the Phillies. You’d have thought we beat them in 1993.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
oof. Well, even the Phils would have a hard time blowing a 10 run lead in the 6th, right? RIGHT???
June 27th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
It is nice to score all these runs but like I asked the other night can’t we give some back and save them for another day,
June 27th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
@AJ and Beta: I’m telling you, you need to plunk down the $15 for Gameday Audio. No blackouts, and you get the Phillies radio audio, which is better than the TV commentary anyway.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
yea extra innings is a joke on saturday, which sucks cause it is my one real day off, and would like to see a game live instead on dvr, but they are winning and hitting so I am all good with that
June 27th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@Beta: hehehe. Yeah, we need some “rollover runs”
June 27th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I think the guy asking for the autograph showed no consideration. I mean, the Phillies are going through the most frustrating period of the year and just finished a very annoying loss. I think its asking a bit much for the guy to expect J.C. to be all happy and willing to give autographs. If J.C. really did show the guy down then thats wrong but so is insulting him.
Good job again by Werth. Triples man, triples!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
FIGHTIN PHILLS ARE BACK BABY!!! WERTH IS A BEAST!!!!!! im blacked out in Colorado too….its bull man…the one game where the phillies are dominating I have to miss it…well at least I have the PHILLIES Nation!
June 27th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
64 pitches into the 6th how wild could happ be today four hits how hittable is he, I am not sure I get that earlier coment, thanks tracey but I usually can not sit in front of computer during the games at work and should be playing golf right now, oh wait I am going to go now, good luck all talk to you after the game
June 27th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
The game isn’t on Extra Innings… BUT it is on CSN+ (Phillies Comcast feed)…. I have RCN Cable and it’s channel 371 … The description is “Off Air” ha
June 27th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
what woke up the bats today not that I am complaining, but it is either all or nothing with these guys, I will take all today, just hope for more than nothing tomorrow,
June 27th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I have the Gameday Audio mostly so I can listen to the day games at work. I’m on the computer most of my work day anyway. My bosses don’t mind me listening on the job, as long as I keep them up to date with the score and the big plays!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
can happ go nine today will they let him if he has a shutout with only 6 hits
June 27th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
He only has 75 pitches so far. He could get through 9…
June 27th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I wouldn’t let him go 9 at this pace… he’s still a rookie and every inning counts… we’re gonna need him late this year too.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
75 pitches should he go at least 8 what do you all think I like his line so far 5 hits 3 K’s and the best is 0 walks, but how can they leave 7 on base with onlly five hits and no walks
June 27th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
He just finished 7 with only 88 pitches. I think he can certainly do 8.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
88 pitches thru 7 pretty good, I still want to know how you get wild and hittable out of the line he has put up, two more K’s, seems like he is pretty strong in that inning, if he stays under 100 pitches does he go nine Manny
June 27th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Maybe let him do 8 and have Lidge pick up the 9th? I know it’s not a save situation, but he could use a major league outing that he can’t blow.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I’d like to see him pitch the 8th… then bring someone else for the 9th
June 27th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
did not want him to get his triple so they walked him hope they bat around and he does it in the niinth
June 27th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Uh… you know, if that was supposed to be an Amber Alert, it wasn’t very informative…
June 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
OK, let’s see Mayberry get his first Major League Grand Slam!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
just for shits and giggles Howard should rock one out just for the fun of it
June 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
so I am a little slow I would like to see a nice double by the kid here
June 27th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
dam the kid has got to take the bat off his shoulder especially up 10 -0 should be swinging at almost anything 0-2
June 27th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Tsk, that’s a shame, leave the bases loaded. Not that we need the runs, but it’s not a good habit to get into.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
ok I Know it is a route, but is this not when we should be having some fun where did everyone go
June 27th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
What, are they playing musical chairs?
June 27th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Well, at least we don’t have to worry about being harassed by any Mets fans today! hee hee.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
8 innings of shutout baseball for Happ against the Blue Jay is pretty freaking impressive!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
peter happy playing second dobbs at third and brunlet at SS interesting, any reason to chase out there
June 27th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Happ finished the 8th; not sure what the pitch count was, because it’s not showing up on Gameday!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Happ is mowing these sorry a$$ blue jays down fast……good job happ keep up the good work
June 27th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Here we go: 93 pitches. He could do a CG, but why not let somebody else join the fun?
June 27th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
i hope happ goes 9 – pitch count is low 90s i think
June 27th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
wow what did he pitch 5 pitches that inning, JA should definatly come out for the 9th give a a complete game shut out against a team that has crushed phillies pitching would be great for his head
June 27th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
93 pitches.. hmm… now I’m rethinking what I previously said… and say: let the guy get his first career shutout in the big leagues!!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Yup, Happ is on in the 9th
June 27th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
One pitch, one out.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
well that’s a quick first out
June 27th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
CMON HAPP ITS YOUR TIME BABY!!!!! COMPLETE GAME SHUTOUT!!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
He hasn’t had a single inning with 15 or more pitches. Amazing.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
*Hands Ruden Amaro a Pencil.*
Ok, see where you see Bastardo’s name under “Untradable”? Go ahead and erase that. Yes, thats it, good job. Now where that was I want you to write “J.A. Happ”.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
98 pitches, 9.2 innings.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
HAPP, Complete Game Shutout!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
CG Shutout, 100 pitches.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Ashburn should go to Happ and Werth
June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Woo! Best day in three weeks! Way to go Happ!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I think he should come out to the mound and K the side would be a nice finnish
June 27th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
WHOO WHOO…….This better boost the boys spirits! HELL YEA!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
exactley 100 pitches shut out nine innings 5 hits 6?K?’s and no walks Happ for Ashburn, But Werth should get some consideration, but defintly Happ first complete game and shut out, those of you that could see it was he really pitching that well,
June 27th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@CT: Agreed, but if they can only have one person for the Ashburn, I’d go with Happ. That was the best starting pitching performance we’ve had this year, bar none. Werth definitely pulled up the batting end of the game, but we’ve had great batting games before; we haven’t had pitching like this.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Happ and Werth for the Ashburn! They both deserve it!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Werth definitely had a great day.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Happ is 5-0? I didn’t think his record was that good. But maybe his rough games he got a no-decision where others blew it later.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
yea I never got how JA was tradable but Bastardo was not, JA has shown he has the make up to pitch in the big leagues, he will be a solid #3 pitcher for a long time hopfully, and has the posibilities to become a #2 if he keeps improving at this rate, it is only his first complete season, and went to the pen for the team, now is 5-0 with a compete game shut out under his belt.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
@Tracey: don’t forget about about Cole’s CG Shutout against the Dodgers. That was a 5-hitter too, I believe
June 27th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
it is Moyer tomorrow right, hope he has a good outing and we can take 2 out of 3 from these Jays, then onto Atlanta right and we owe them a beat down this time around. Would like at least 6 runs tomorrow and I think that will be enough
June 27th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I nominate Werth and Happ for the Ashburn. Even though only one player gets it most of the time, Werth and Happ should get their own half of it.
June 27th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I think after Cole’s blow up last night, he is going to come out and be great for the rest of the year, I am glad to see Charlie closed the doors and reamed them out last night, because it was almost embarassing to watch them play with no heart or heads for that matter, tomorrow’s game will be a good gauge if they got it go Moyer you are the man
June 27th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
It HAS to be both Happ and Werth!!
Brilliant!!
June 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Props to Happ, maybe he’s better than I thought. He’s the 2nd best starter on the team right now and trading him now doesn’t make much sense.
The Phillies need a few more of these to get me excited, but at least they didn’t get swept. Go Yankees tonight.
June 27th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I’ll say this: THANK GOD WE DIDNT TRADE HAPP FOR MARQUIS!!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
No kiddin’, Manny!