{"id":540,"date":"2010-04-25T21:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2010-04-25T21:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T02:25:01","slug":"phillies-semi-weekly-report-card-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Semi-Weekly Report Card #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Record since last Report Card: \u00a0<\/strong>3-3<\/p>\n

Overall Record: <\/strong>11-7 (1st in division)<\/p>\n

The injuries keep coming, and the Phils play another .500 week.\u00a0 J.A. Happ hit the DL this week, Placido Polanco missed a game after taking a pitch off the elbow, and Juan Castro (J-Roll’s replacement) missed today’s game with a strained hamstring.\u00a0 On the plus side, J.C. Romero came back (and promptly gave up a homer to the first batter he faced), and Brad Lidge and Joe Blanton are both pretty close to making their season debuts.<\/p>\n

Position Players: <\/strong>Not an overly eventful week offensively.\u00a0 They still lead the NL in runs, but not by much, and they basically sputtered along this week, putting up about 4 runs\u00a0a game.\u00a0 The two biggest guns, Chase Utley and Ryan\"vic Howard, had terrible weeks, and when you don’t get production from the 3-4 hitters, that makes it tough.<\/p>\n

They continue to play really well defensively, especially in the Halladay shutout on Wednesday.\u00a0 In that game alone, Victorino robbed a home run, Castro made a great play to his left (that was finished by a great scoop from Howard), Utley and Castro hooked up for a key double play, and Howard made a diving play to his right in the 9th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grade: <\/em>C+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starting Pitchers:\u00a0 <\/strong>Much like the offense last week, the starting pitchers appeared headed for an A+ through the first few games, but it came apart a bit late\u00a0in the week.\u00a0 Still, all in all, an excellent week from this bunch.\u00a0 Kyle Kendrick started it off with his first good game of the season, going 8 shutout innings.\u00a0 The masterful Halladay pitched his second complete game the following night, without giving up a run.\u00a0 And Jamie Moyer gave up no earned runs on Thursday.\u00a0 In those three games, the starters pitched 23 innings without giving up an earned run.<\/p>\n

Cole Hamels ended the hot streak with a dismal outing on Friday, in which he gave up four homers.\u00a0 After a very serviceable spot start from Nelson Figueroa on Saturday, Kendrick followed in Hamels’s footsteps by posting a disappointing effort after a breakout start.\u00a0 He gave up a 5 spot in the 5th for a no-decision.<\/p>\n

Grade: <\/em>A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bullpen:\u00a0 <\/strong>This unit is heading in the wrong direction.\u00a0 They from an A- to a C+ last week, and the downward movement continued.\u00a0 The week started off with a stomach-punch loss in Atlanta, when Ryan Madson came into the 9th inning with a 3-0 lead, then gave up back-to-back 2out homers that tied the game.\u00a0 One of the worst things about that inning was the leadoff walk with a 3-run lead and, of course, it came back to haunt him.\u00a0 Atlanta phenom Jason Heyward hit the tying shot.\u00a0 I am NOT gonna like that guy.\u00a0 Jose Contreras came on in the 10th and gave up a walk-off shot to the first batter he faced.<\/p>\n

The pen also finished the week on a sour note, today in Arizona.\u00a0 They couldn’t hold a one-run lead, with Baez and Herndon combining to give up 3 runs in an 8-6 loss.\u00a0 The pen does get credit for Saturday’s performance though, when they went four shutout innings to hold onto\u00a0for a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n

Grade: <\/em>C-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Record since last Report Card: \u00a03-3 Overall Record: 11-7 (1st in division) The injuries keep coming, and the Phils play another .500 week.\u00a0 J.A. Happ hit the DL this week, Placido Polanco missed a game after taking a pitch off … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1028],"tags":[568,30,222,367,16,309,218],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-phils-weekly-report","tag-braves","tag-chase-utley","tag-cole-hamels","tag-kyle-kendrick","tag-phillies","tag-roy-halladay","tag-ryan-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}