Yankees starter Andy Pettitte was battered early on Saturday as the Phillies scored 3 second inning runs, including the first of 2 solo homers by rightfielder Jayson Werth.  But starter Cole Hamels couldn’t hold a 3-0 lead as the Yankees charged back, boosted by a controversial 2 run homer fourth inning homer by 3rd baseman Alex Rodriguez, scoring 2 in the fourth and 3 in the fifth to take the lead.  The Yanks notched a run in each of the sixth, seventh and eighth innings off of 3 Phillie relievers.  Werth pounded his 2nd homer in the sixth and catcher Carlos Ruiz solo homered in the ninth against reliever Phil Hughes but it was far short of enough as the Yankees won game 3 by an 8-5 score despite three Phillies homers.

Hamels began the game by cruising through the Yankees lineup retiring 9 of the first 10 hitters he faced, only hitting A-Rod on his 1st pitch in the second inning.

Meanwhile, shortstop Jimmy Rollins stroked Pettitte’s 1st pitch of the game for a single to leftfield but was left stranded when centerfielder Shane Victorino popped out to 3rd base and when Pettitte struck out both 2nd baseman Chase Utley and 1st baseman Ryan Howard.   The two struck out a total of 5 times for the game and Howard has now struck out 9 times over the 3 World Series games. 

But the Phillies had Pettitte on the ropes in the second inning as Werth worked Pettitte to a full-count before slamming a solo homer to leftfield to open the ining.  With 1 out, 3rd baseman Pedro Feliz doubled to rightfield, Ruiz walked and Hamels reached on a bunt single to the catcher to load the sacks.  Pettitte walked Rollins on 5 pitches forcing in the 2nd Phillies run and Victorino hit a sacrifice fly to plate the 3rd run.   Utley again struck out leaving 2 runners tranded but the Phils had given Hamels a cushion which he was unable to hold.

Pettitte, however, settled down in the third inning and went clean on a strikeout and 2 flyouts.

Hamels started the fourth inning by getting leftfielder Johnny Damon to fly out to rightfield.  But then after getting ahead 1-2 in the count, Hamels walked 1st baseman Mark Teixeira and got a strike on Rodriguez before A-Rod belted his next pitch for a much-discussed 2 run homer off of the camera near the foul pool in the lower-level rightfield stands.  The smash was originally called a double before the umpiring crew viewed it’s first-ever instant replay of a potential homerun call.  It took only a moment for the umpires to reverse the ruling of a double to that of a homer as the Yankees closed to 3-2.   Had the original call of a double stood, the Yanks would probably have come away with nothing as Hamels then retired the side on a ground out and a foul out to the catcher.

In the fourth inning with 1 out, Pedro Feliz reached on a ground ball and a throwing error by A-Rod at 3rd base and was rubbed out as Ruiz’s fielder’s choice grounder to shortstop.  Hamels sacrificed to the catcher as Ruiz took 2nd base on the play.  But Rollins flied out to end the inning leaving Ruiz stranded at 2nd base as Pettitte had little trouble with the Phils in the fourth and fifth innings.

Hamels fell apart in the fifth inning as the Yanks scored 3 runs, including the tying run on Pettitte’s single to centerfield.  Shortstop Derek Jeter followed with a single and Damon plated them both with a double as the Yanks took a 5-3 lead.  Saturday’s loss charged to Hamels seemed the culmination of a truly down season for the young lefthander who won the MVP award in both last season’s NLCS as well as World Series.

The Yanks added single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings as rightfielder Nick Swisher pounded a 1 out, 2-2 pitch by reliever J.A. Happ out to leftfield in the sixth, catcher Jorge Posada knocked in a run with a single off of Chad Durbin in the seventh and pinch hitter Hideki Matsui blasted a 2 out solo shot off of Brett Myers in the eighth.

With the Phils down by 6-3 in the sixth, Werth reached Pettitte again with a leadoff solo shot for his 2nd homer of the game.  He joined Utley, who multi-homered in game 1 as the only Phils to ever score multi-homer games in the World Series.

The Yankees bullpen went clean on the Phils in both the seventh and eighth innings before reliever Phil Hughes took over to open the ninth.  Hughes got Feliz to ground out to 3rd base but Carlos Ruiz nailed a 1-1 pitch for a solo homer to left centerfield for the Phils’ 5th run.

At that point, Girardi didn’t mess around any further.  He brought in closer  Mariano Rivera.  Rivera, had struggled through 2 tough innings against the Phils in game 2, went right to work getting pinch hitter Matt Stairs to ground out to 2nd base on an 0-2 pitch and got Rollins, 2nd-pitch hitting, to pop out to 3rd base to end the game.

For winning pitcher Pettitte, Saturday’s six inning outing and win upped the lefthander’s major league record for postseason wins to 17.

Joe Blanton hopes to knot the series at 2-2 in Sunday’s game 4 at Citizens Bank Park.  He is opposed by the Yankees game 1 starter lefthander C.C. Sabathia who will be going on 3 days rest as Yanks manager Joe Girardi takes a huge risk of being second-guessed and criticized for going with a 3 man starting rotation on short rest against the Phillies.  On Monday’s game 5, Phillies ace lefthander Cliff Lee will make his 2nd World Series start opposed by A.J. Burnett, who like Sabathia, will be going on 3 days rest.

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The last time the NL had won an All-Star game was in Philadelphia in 1996.  The string remained intact as AL pitchers retired 17 straight NL hitters from the third inning through the first 2 outs in the eighth.  Phillies centerfielder Shane Victorino singled and scored a run amidst the NL 3 run rally against AL starter Roy Halladay in the second inning, but pinch-hitter  Ryan Howard struck out on a Joe Nathan slider in the eighth inning with runners on 2nd and 3rd foiling a chance for the NL to tie or take the lead.  Each team used 8 pitchers and the AL went up early with 2 runs in the first inning against NL starter Tim Lincecum and single runs in the fifth and eighth innings in another drab, boring All-Star affair in which the AL edged the NL by a 4-3 score as their unbeaten string hits 14 seasons.

A lot of pitchers and players were used but very little can be said about  All-Star game #80.  The most valuable player, AL leftfielder Carl Crawford went 1 for 3 with a fifth inning single only to be rubbed out on outfielder Ichiro Suzuki’s fielder’s choice grounder.  Crawford’s main claim to MVP fame was his leaping, homer-robbing grab over the 8-foot leftfield wall to bring down a Brad Hawpe drive in the seventh inning.  Had the drive landed over the wall, the NL would have taken a 4-3 lead.  Perennial MVP Suzuki also went 1 for 3 with a first inning single and was not involved in the scoring having been rubbed out by a fielder’s choice grounder.

Beyond Crawford’s seventh inning heroics, the most entertaining part of this All-Star game may have been President Obama’s ceremonial first pitch which fluttered, barely making it to the glove of Albert Pujols.

There were no classic, dramatic match-ups such as a Dizzy Dean or a Carl Hubbard striking out Lou Gehrig or Joe DiMaggio, or the 1958 All-Star game where Dick Farrell struck out 5 out of 7 AL stars he faced in 2 innings, the last 4 in a row.   And there were no heroics like in the 1964 All-Star game where Phillies’ pitching great Jim Bunning fanned 4 AL stars in his two innings of work and where rightfielder Johnny Callison blasted his memorable game-winning 3 run walk-off homer.

And there were no apparent managerial blunders by either NL manager Charlie Manuel of the Phillies or AL manager Joe Maddon of Tampa Bay.

Beyond the game itself, possibly the most interesting news to watch is the apparent signing by the Phillies of free agent pitcher Pedro Martinez who has passed his physical.  A Yahoo sports report indicates that the Phillies signing of Martinez is to be made official at press conference which is expected to be held in Philadelphia later on Wednesday.  According to Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer Andy Martino:

…Martinez has signed a one-year contract with the Phillies.

According to a baseball source, the contract is worth about $1 million, and Martinez could make an additional $1.5 million in incentives based on starts and time on the active roster.

A baseball source also said Martinez could join the Phillies in Miami later this week to work out with the team before beginning a minor-league assignment.

The money reports seem to somewhat jive with a series of Metsblog.com Twitters from last week which indicate that a $4 million figure for Martinez could be pro-rated.  One of the Twitters indicates that “any deal is likely to be around $1.75 million, which sounds like $4 million pro-rated over two or three months…”  We ought to know more specifics about the money in coming days.  We’re not talking about huge, make-or-break bucks such that blogging about the money may be superfluous.

Martino’s report continues:

Martinez is 214-99 with a 2.91 earned run average in 17 seasons. Last year, he was 5-6 with a 5.61 ERA for the New York Mets.

“If we were to bring him in, it would not preclude us from doing other things,” said Amaro, who is engaged in efforts to acquire Toronto righthander Roy Halladay, among other pitchers.

Martinez likely would need several minor-league starts before joining the Phillies.

Meanwhile, the Phillies resume play on Thursday travelling to Florida to open a big 4 game series with the Marlins.  In Thursday’s opener, ageless lefthander Jamie Moyer is opposed by Chris Volstad.

For all of Thursday’s games, click here.

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This blog has noted various Baseball oddities such as a reliever credited with a save in a 30-3 game, the impressive minor league prospect who, in his lone MLB appearance, took an 0-for-3 collar accounting for 6 outs; a strikeout‚ double play‚ and triple play.  Also blogged about was a pitcher who went 4 for 4; 4 starts, 4 homers — three of them leading off innings.

Well, here’s the latest oddity: a reliever credited with a win without making a pitch.

The Colorado Rockies scored an eighth inning run without a hit to break a 4-4 tie as Washington’s reliever Joe Beimel threw to the wrong man on the wrong side of 2nd base on an attempted force play as the Rockies went on to defeat the Nationals by a 5-4 score.  But Beimel’s wrong-way throw is not the oddity of note here.

Rockies’ lefthanded relief pitcher Alan Embree entered the game with 2 outs in the eighth inning and pinch hitter Austin Kearns on 1st base having just singled to rightfield.  With Nationals leadoff hitter centerfielder Nyjer Morgan at bat, Kearns was caught attempting to steal second, pitcher to first to shortstop to pitcher for the final out of inning.  The Denver Post describes the play:

[1st baseman] Todd Helton caught Embree’s throw, then slipped. But he was not penalized, because Kearns tripped as he burst for second base. Eventually, the ball ended up back in Embree’s glove for the putout.

“I am not sure if I will be available (today). I am beat,” joked Embree, who had the baseball waiting in his locker afterward in a Ziploc bag. “It was a fun play for me because you just never think that’s going to happen.”

The AP recap of Tuesday’s game cites a stat on such occurences for Yahoo sports:

According to STATS LLC, it was the first time a pitcher had gotten a win without throwing a pitch since Baltimore’s B.J Ryan also had a pickoff against Detroit on May 1, 2003.

Not so oddly enough, Ryan is also a lefthanded reliever and I’ve heard since long ago, as a youngster, that lefthanders have an edge over righthanders on pick-off plays.  And the Orioles ended up taking both ends of the a doubleheader that day by scores of 5-2 and 6-4.

There are 2 other known cases of a reliever winning a game without throwing a pitch. 

California Angels lefthanded reliever Greg Garrett also accomplished the feat on a pick-off play in a July 1, 1970 4-3 win over the the then-AL   Milwaukee Brewers.

The other case dates back to September 7, 1914 in the defunct Federal League when the Brooklyn Feds defeated the Pittsburgh Feds in both ends of a doubleheader as righthanded reliever Jim Bluejacket performed the feat in the nightcap which Brooklyn won by a 12-11 score.   Baseball Library cites a Brooklyn Eagle report describing what went down:

Blue jacket (sic) did not pitch a single ball to a Pittsburgh batter‚ but even at that he gets credit for winning the second game. He entered the fray in the eighth inning‚ with Monasky on third and Yerkes on first. Bringing his Indian cunning into play‚ he caught Yerkes napping off first and ended the inning. In the last half of the same round the local team scored the five runs that won the game.”

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Phillies ace lefthander Cole Hamels got more than he bargained for on Monday; his own 2 hits and 2 RBIs, a 7 inning, 1 run, 3 hit gem as well as being beneficiary of a 10 run first inning pounding of Cincinnati starter  Johnny Cueto who lasted 2/3rds of an inning giving 9 of the runs.  Hamels was treated 4 Phillies homers including an eighth inning grand slam by rightfielder Jayson Werth to cap the Phils massive scoring.  When the scoring onslaught mercifully subsided in the eighth inning with 1st baseman Greg Dobbs and 3rd baseman Pedro Feliz going down to end the inning, the Phillies had crushed the Reds by a whopping 22-1 score. 

With the one-sided win, and the Florida Marlins’ loss to the San Francisco Giants, the Phillies NL East division lead jumped to 2 games over the Marlins.  The Mets, who had Monday off, dropped to 4 1/2 games back and Atlanta who lost to the Chicago Cubs dropped to 5 games off of the pace.

One has to wonder though about what the next games will bring after the Phils pumped this many runs into one game.    AP sports writer Rob Maaddi, who’s recap for Yahoo sports read like a lengthy dissertation rather than a recap, notes what happened last season after the Phils lumped this many runs into one game:

They hadn’t scored more than 15 runs since a 20-2 victory at  St. Louis last June 13. After that game, the Phillies went 3-11 and scored a total of 38 runs.

The previous worst defeat for the Reds, baseball’s first professional franchise, was 26-6 on July 26, 1892. That also was against the Phillies.

That 20-2 win over the Cardinals came but 19 days after the Phils pummeled the Colorado Rockies by a a 20-5 score on May 26th.  After that game, the Phils went on a winning run so, I suppose, things could go either way after this one, although the Phils offense coming into the Cincinnati opener has not exactly been in high-gear.  But three 20 run games in 2 seasons — Wow! Keep in mind that between 1957 and 2007, the Phils had scored 20 runs or more in exactly 3 games, one of them being that wild-and-wooly 23-22 ten inning slugfest at Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs which the Phils won on Mike Schmidt’s tenth inning solo shot off of Cubs closer Bruce Sutter.

The Phils scored 22 runs on 21 hits and sending 13 hitters to the plate while scoring 10 runs in the first inning alone.  Phillies Nation’s Amanda Orr brings some historical stats in recapping the game:

It was the first time since 1900 that the Phillies beat an opponent by at least twenty runs.

The Phillies scored ten runs in the first inning, nine off Johnny Cueto, who lasted two-thirds of an inning, raising his earned run average from 2.69 to 3.45. The inning marked the fourth time in franchise history that the Phillies scored ten runs in the first inning. The last time the Phillies scored ten runs in the first inning was in July of 2002 against the  Montreal Expos.

Shane Victorino made his best “vote for me” campaign with a 4-for-5 night. He homered, drove in four runs, and walked. Greg Dobbs (4-for-6, 2 RBI) and Chase Utley (2-for-3, 4 RBI) also homered. Jayson Werth (2-for-5, 5 RBI) hit a grand slam in the eighth inning off Paul Janish, a shortstop, as the Reds were desperate to save their bullpen.

Every starter in the Phillies lineup had at least one hit, including Cole Hamels (2-for-4).  Jimmy Rollins (3-for-4) continued his hitting ways.  The only batter who did not get a hit was John Mayberry Jr. (0-for-1, BB), who came in as a substitute.  Matt Stairs had one plate appearance and walked. Other than that, six Phillies had a multi-hit night. Two Phillies (Victorino and Dobbs) had four hits. Every batter reached base at least once.

The last time the Phillies pounded 22 runs was in 1985 against the New York Mets. It is also the third most runs the Phillies scored in one game. Not only did the win make Phillies history, but Reds history, marking their largest margin of defeat, 21 runs.

The rout was sooo complete sooo early that manager Manuel gave both 2nd baseman Chase Utley and 1st baseman Ryan Howard some in-game rest in the fourth inning pinch-running Eric Bruntlett after Utley’s RBI single and pinch-running John Mayberry Jr. for Howard after his RBI single.

But while most of textual thunder has gone to the Phillies’ heavy lumber, Hamels deserves much credit as well.  After leftfielder Jonny Gomes’ second inning leadoff homer, Hamels went on to retire the last 18 of 19 Reds hitters he faced in evening his seasonal record at 5-5.  He walked no one while striking out 2.  The only other hits Hamels allowed were 2 out singles in the first and fifth innings in one of the finest outings he’s had this season.  

The bullpen  largely rested due to both the offensive explosion and Hamels’ performance.  The Big Bucks relievers; Ryan Madson, Chan Ho Park, J.C. Romero and closer Brad Lidge were all able to catch breathers as Tyler Walker and re-activated lefthander Scott Eyre, in a low-risk situation closed down the Reds in the eighth and ninth innings.

For the scores of all of Monday’s games, click here.

In Tuesday’s game 2, young, unbeaten lefthander J.A, Happ, fresh from 3 consecutive excellent outings including a complete game shutout, is opposed by Aaron Harang for the Reds.  Harang has been up and down so far this season.

For all of Tuesday’s games, click here.

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Phillies starter, former Dodger Chan Ho Park provided another quality outing going six innings allowing 2 runs. Leftfielder Raul Ibanez capped a 3 run Phillies fourth inning rally off of lefthander Clayton Kershaw by ripping a 2 run double to centerfield and rightfielder Jayson Werth put himself in the franchise record-books with 4 steals in the game, including a seventh inning steal of home to lead the Phillies past the Manny-less Dodgers by a 5-3 score on Tuesday.

With the win, the Phils remained 1 game behind the Mets who split their Monday and Tuesday games with Atlanta.

Park struggled through a first inning which saw him give up 2 doubles and a single but, thankfully only 1 run.  Then he retired the next 6 Dodgers in a row while the Phils managed a 1 out, 2nd and 3rd base pickle for Kershaw who walked the 1st 2 Phillies hitters in the third inning.  Park helped out his own cause sacrificing both runners into scoring position with 1 out.  Centerfielder Shane Victorino, batting lead-off as manager Manuel juggled his lineup, then grounded out to shortstop scoring 3rd baseman Pedro Feliz as the Phils knotted the score at 1-1.

The Dodgers took a short-lived 2-1 lead off of Park in the fourth on 3 singles, the last of which being a 2 out RBI single to left centerfield by centerfielder Matt Kemp.

But the Phils took the lead for good in their fourth inning.  Werth, batting 3rd, led off with a single to centerfield.  Kershaw then walked 1st baseman  Ryan Howard.  Werth and Howard worked a double-steal to put runners at 2nd and 3rd.  Shortstop Jimmy Rollins, demoted to the 5th spot in manager Manuel’s lineup juggling, solved Kershaw singling to rightfield scoring Werth and moving Howard to 3rd base.  Ibanez followed doubling to right-centerfield to score Howard and Rollins to put the Phils up by 4-2.  Feliz was then walked and it looked like the Phils were not done yet in the inning.  After Kershaw got catcher Carlos Ruiz on a line to centerfield and struck out Park, Victorino reached on a fielding error to load the sacks.  But Kershaw struck out 2nd baseman Chase Utley to evade further damage.

Meanwhile Kershaw singled through the 2nd base/shortstop hole to lead off the fifth.  But Park retired the next 6 Dodger hitters as the Phils led 4-2 after six innings.

Kershaw, who suffered his 3rd loss of the season, left the game after five innings having thown 98 pitches and having given up 4 runs on 4 hits while surrendering a crucial 4 walks, 3 of them leading to Phillies runs.

Winning pitcher Park evened his season record to 1-1 with his 2nd straight excellent performance throwing 101 pitches through six innings while giving up 2 runs on 7 hits walking none and striking out 3.

Relievers Chad Durbin and lefthander Scott Eyre took over for Park in the seventh making short work of the Dodgers and bringing us to Werth’s base-stealing exploits in the Phillies seventh.

AP sports writer Dan Gelston describes Werth’s seventh inning stolen bases for Yahoo sports;

Werth stole home in the seventh inning and tied a team record with four steals in one game.

He had a one-out single in the seventh, then stole second and third. He stole third base in the fourth.

Werth surprised the Dodgers when he took off on a slow toss from catcher  Russell Martin to reliever Ronald Belisario. Werth’s steal of home gave the Phillies a 5-2 lead and the crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Werth’s four steals in a game tied a club record set by Sherry Magee on July 12 and Aug. 31 in 1906, and Garry Maddox on May 29, 1978.

Utley led off the seventh by flying out to center.  Werth followed singling to leftfield.  Werth stole 2nd on a 3rd strike to Ryan Howard.  Lefthanded reliever Will Ohman intentionally walked Rollins — a huge mistake as Martin and reliever Belisario later found out.  Werth and Rollins worked a double-steal as Ohman was walking Ibanez loading the bases.  When Werth spotted Russell’s slow return toss to the pitcher who was in process of walking Feliz, he broke for home and made it safely.

Inquirer staff writer Andy Martino adds more color to Werth’s steal of home;

Werth’s final steal of the evening, a seventh-inning swipe of home with Pedro Feliz batting, underscored the team’s impressive performance. Werth said that first-base coach Davey Lopes had recently spoken to him about more aggressively seeking base-stealing opportunities. Noting the suggestion, he stood on third and watched catcher Russell Martin ignore him after the first pitch of the at-bat.

“On the first pitch, he didn’t look at me,” said Werth. “So I figured if we got to two strikes and he didn’t look at me, I was going to go.”

When that situation arrived, Martin remained on his knees and threw the ball casualty back to pitcher Ronald Belisario. Werth dashed toward home, beating the throw and drawing visceral cheers from surprised teammates and fans, who cheered until he made a curtain call.

“Jayson timed him down,” said a smiling Charlie Manuel. “I was just as surprised as you were. I saw him going and I said, ‘What’s going on?’ . . . I guess he was feeling frisky and had a lot of energy, so he wanted to run.”

He became the first Phillie to swipe home since, yes, Carlos Ruiz on June 26, 2007.

Reliever Ryan Madson set the Dodgers down in the eighth allowing only a harmless 2 out single.

The game was turned over in the ninth to closer Brad Lidge who recorded his 5th save of the season, but it was quite dicey as Lidge gave up 3 singles in between recording 2 outs.  The 3rd single drove in the Dodgers’ 3rd run.  But Lidge got leadoff hitter leftfielder Juan Pierre, subbing for 50 game suspended Manny Ramirez, to fly out to center to end the game.

For all of the results of Monday’s and Tuesday’s games, click here and  here.

Wednesday’s game is a battle of lefthanders as veteran Jamie Moyer looks to regain his 2008 form.  He is opposed by former Phil Randy Wolf who has been solid in his last 3 starts.

For all of Wednesday’s games, click here.

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Two days ago, this blog noted that the L.A. Dodgers had won their first 11 home games.  Well, with their Wednesday 10-3 pounding of the  Washington Nationals, that consecutive home record has reached All-Time MLB record-breaking proportions:

Joe Torre settled back into his chair in the cramped manager’s office at Dodger Stadium for his postgame interview when he was interrupted by his boss, there to offer a congratulatory handshake.

Torre grasped general manager Ned Colletti’s hand firmly and then gave him a carbon copy of the Dodgers’ lineup card as a gesture of appreciation.

“Streaks are fine, but we have more important things in mind,” Torre said. “Hopefully, it’s just a stepping stone on the way to something more important. The fact that we’re playing well takes precedence over anything else. The good part about this thing is that this is about winning games, which is what we try to do every day.”

“Everywhere I go, all people are talking about is the streak because it’s the hot topic,” Torre said. “I’m sure these guys enjoy being be the team that owns the streak all by themselves—and maybe like the 1911 Tigers, not be around when it’s broken.”

The 1911 Tigers were 51-25 at home—but 38-40 on the road—and finished 13 1/2 out of first place.

But question is, with a lineup where 3 of their first 4 hitters own better than .315 batting averages, where both leftfielder Manny Ramirez and rightfielder Andre Ethier — 3 and 4 in the order have 6 homers each and 3rd baseman Casey Blake has 5, a starting ace Chad Billingsley (5-0) who hasn’t been beaten in 6 outings and a pitching staff with a collective 3.72 ERA, when will this home winning streak ever end?

Lucky thing for the Phillies that the Dodgers follow Atlanta into Citizen’s Bank Park next Tuesday because L.A. is a more down-to-earth, human 8-8 on the road.

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