Myers, Unrostered Prospect Shut Out Yankees
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Just when Phillies fans started to get a little nervous after another set of shaky pitching performances by lefthander Cole Hamels and second year starter Kyle Kendrick, Brett Myers and young prospect Andrew Carpenter turned the New York Yankees hitters upside down, inside out, round ‘n round combining for a four hit 4-0 shutout.
With just a four days and a few hours left before opening day,
Myers, who appears primed for a break-out season, closed down the Yankees totally. He surrendered but two hits and walked two while striking out three in five innings in his final tune-up before his opening day start against the Washington Nationals on March 31.
Then Carpenter came on in the sixth inning and closed the Yanks down, for the remainder of the game, despite a ninth inning threat.
The AP game recap for Yahoo sports notes;
Myers might have been trumped by a 22-year-old prospect who doesn’t even have a locker in the major league clubhouse.
Andrew Carpenter, who won 17 games at Class-A Clearwater last summer, was added as an extra man before the game and responded by pitching four scoreless innings of relief.
“He did very good. He had good command, he threw a good changeup and he located his fastball very good,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. “He pitched with a purpose.”
Carpenter struck out the side in his second inning of work and escaped a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the ninth with a foulout and two strikeouts. He allowed just two hits and two walks while striking out six.
The line of zeros in this game marked unquestionably the finest Phillies’ pitching performance of the spring.
Rightfielder Geoff Jenkins went 3 for 4, leftfielder Pat Burrell went 2 for 3 and shortstop Jimmy Rollins knocked in two runs as all of the Phils’ scoring took place in the second inning off of Yanks’ starter Chien-Ming Wang. Wang, who was less than sharp in his final spring tune-up, went five innings giving up four runs on six hits. The Yanks’ bullpen then shut down the Phillies through the rest of the game.
The Phillies’ next face the Detroit Tigers on Thursday.
For related previous blog posts about Brett Myers, click below;
Phillies: Exhibition Season Update
Lighter Side of Spring Training: Kendrick “Traded” to Japan
Phillies Win NL East With Win Over Nationals, Mets Lose to Florida
Masterful Complete Game for Myers, Utley, Burrell Homer, Phillies Beat Cubs
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