Saturday, August 25, 2018

Game #129 - Philadelphia Phillies (69-59) at Toronto Blue Jays (59-69)


Philadelphia Phillies @ Toronto Blue Jays: 

Game 2

Saturday, August 25th, 4:07pm EST.  Toronto, Ontario


By my calculations....... The Jays need to go 30-0 to have a damn chance to be within possible Wild Card contention, not clinching or even guaranteed attaining one. 

The Oakland A's got a record (as of today) of 77-52 to HOLD the FINAL WILDCARD SPOT.  That's 25 games over freaking .500!

Also they must hope the A's don't mathematically eliminate them too by the final week.

That's a mighty desperation climb up a mountain right now....



Well, just bite on one game at a time and stay tuned on the players that are not lazy to stay on the field.

GAMETIME!

Pitching Match-up:

Phillies: Nick "Hail from BC" Pivetta (7-10 3.25 ERA)  vs. Blue Jays: Aaron "Took you long enough" Sanchez (3-5, 4.52 ERA)

Lineups:

Phillies

1.  Hernandez, C. 2B
2.  Hoskins, R. LF
3.  Williams, N. RF
4.  Santana, C.1B
5.  Cabrera, A.SS
6.  Franco, M. 3B
7.  Herrera, O. CF
8.  Alfraro, J. LF
9.  Quinn, R. RF

Blue Jays

1. McKinney BRF
2. Travis, D. 2B
3. Smoak, J. 1B
4. Morales, K. DH 
5. Pillar, K. CF
6. Gurriel, L. SS
7. Jansen, D. C
8. Hernandez, T. LF  (At this point of the season, I AM NOT ENTHUSED HERE)
9. Diaz, A. 3B


Sanchez, you can either do this: Pitch well & impress us, or get another injury and force the nicest Dad and Daughter couple of Gibby and Nikki to visit you on the mound,

Enjoy your weekends everyone!