Categories: 2011 GamedayPosts

Gameday: Reds (25-22) at Phillies (28-18)

Cincinnati Reds (25-22) at Philadelphia Phillies (28-18)

Bronson Arroyo (3-4, 4.11 ERA) vs. Cole Hamels (5-2, 2.92 ERA)

Time: 7:05 p.m. Citizens Bank Park
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 74
TV: CSN
Twitter: Phillies Nation

So I read something over Twitter today that had that disturbing juxtaposition of “Joe Blanton” and “Dr. James Andrews.” I also read something on Twitter this afternoon about the Reds sending Edinson Volquez–the former 17-game winner who started Game 1 of last year’s NLDS–to AAA Louisville.

I don’t care. Because Jesus may not have come back, contrary to predictions…

…BUT CHASE UTLEY HAS!Ladies and gentlemen, it’s with great pleasure that I give you, for the first time this year and after a nine-game engagement in Florida, Chase Utley! Oh, boy, let’s say that again. Chase Utley. Chase Utley. Chase Utley. Utley. Utley. Utleyutleyutleyutley…Oh, boy.

Anyway, that guy will hit second tonight against Bronson Arroyo and Dusty Baker’s Flying Circus, and while the impact of the best second base bat in the game might not present itself in full effect this evening, boy does it feel good to have Utley back in the lineup.

PHILLIES LINEUP:

Rollins SS, Utley 2B, Polanco 3B, Howard 1B, Ibanez LF, Ruiz C, Brown RF, Mayberry CF Hamels P.

Your Gameday Beer– Unibroue La Fin du Monde

The world was supposed to end on Saturday, as I’ve said, so let’s celebrate that it didn’t by ripping into a glass of La Fin du Monde (literally French for “The end of the world”), this French-Canadian take on a high-gravity Belgian witbier is, for my money, the tastiest beer currently in existence on Earth. That’s not an exaggeration; if you drink any other beer tonight there had better be a good reason.-by Michael

GO PHILLIES

Michael Baumann

Michael is a graduate student at Temple University who lost his childlike innocence when, at the age of 6, his dad let him stay up for the end of Game 6 of the 1993 World Series. Unsettled by the Phillies’ recent success, he has threatened over the years to leave the team he loves if they don’t start losing again, but has so far been unable to follow through. Michael spent 4 years as an undercover agent in Braves territory at the University of South Carolina, where he covered football and soccer for The Daily Gamecock before moving back up north. He began writing for The Phrontiersman in June 2009 before moving to Phillies Nation in January 2010.