| The Nationals fall to the 99 loss mark as Adam Eaton saves his best for last. Despite some wildness with 5 walks and two wild pitches, Eaton holds the Nationals scoreless in 7 innings of work in easily his best start of the season. He helps his own cause with a 2 for 3 day at the plate with an RBI and a run scored. Eaton is actually the best hitting pitcher on the team this season at .235 (12 for 51). Pat Burrell, Aaron Rowand and Carlos Ruiz add homers in the romp. The Nats finally busted through for a tun in the 8th off of Jose Mesa on a homer for Wily Mo Pena, and add another garbage time run in the 9th off Kane Davis. It is just too bad that the Phillies finally get hot now that it doesn't matter. The traditional slow Phillie start was just season long this year as this interesting statistic shows - their recent 12-1 run gives the team their best record since April 9th, when they were also three games below .500 at 2-5!!! If the Phils win again in the final game of the season, it will give the Nationals 100 losses. I looked it up, and it will be the first time since 1976 (107 losses) and only the third time that the Expos/Nationals franchise will have triple digit losses. They also did in their first season in 1969, when they lost 110. They also did in as we know with 102 losses in 2008, but that hasn't happened yet in SOM years!! |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2007 Washington Nationals At 2007 Philadelphia Phillies 9/29/2007
Nationals AB R H RBI AVG Phillies AB R H RBI AVG
F.Lopez SS 5 1 2 0 .235 J.Rollins SS 5 1 2 2 .284
R.Belliard 2B 5 0 3 0 .267 C.Utley 2B 5 0 1 0 .338
R.Zimmerman 3B 5 0 0 0 .287 P.Burrell LF 4 1 1 2 .229
D.Young 1B 4 0 0 1 .309 K.Davis P 0 0 0 0 ----
A.Kearns RF 4 0 1 0 .231 R.Howard 1B 4 0 1 0 .288
R.Church CF 3 0 0 0 .272 A.Rowand CF 4 1 1 1 .301
W.Pena LF 4 1 2 1 .257 J.Werth RF 4 1 1 0 .265
B.Schneider C 3 0 2 0 .230 W.Helms 3B 3 1 2 0 .274
M.Chico P 1 0 0 0 .188 J.Mesa P 0 0 0 0 .000
J.Colome P 0 0 0 0 .000 E-M.Bourn LF 0 0 0 0 .242
A-C.Guzman PH 1 0 0 0 .301 C.Ruiz C 4 2 1 2 .276
L.Ayala P 0 0 0 0 .000 F-P.Laforest C 0 0 0 0 .343
B-D.Jimenez PH 0 0 0 0 .200 A.Eaton P 3 1 2 1 .235
W.Abreu P 0 0 0 0 .000 C-A.Nunez 3B 0 0 0 0 .244
D-T.Batista PH 1 0 0 0 .239
S.Rivera P 0 0 0 0 .250
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Totals 36 2 10 2 Totals 36 8 12 8
A-Pinch Hit For Colome In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Ayala In 7th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Eaton In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Abreu In 8th Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Mesa In 9th Inning
F-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Ruiz In 9th Inning
Nationals....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 2 10 0
Phillies........ 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 0 - 8 12 0
Nationals (62-99) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
M.Chico LOSS(10-14) 3 2/3 8 6 6 2 4 2 79 5.78
J.Colome 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.32
L.Ayala 2 2 2 2 0 0 1 33 5.23
W.Abreu 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 6.27
S.Rivera 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 18 3.05
Totals 8 12 8 8 3 6 3
Phillies (79-82) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Eaton WIN(9-13) 7 6 0 0 5 4 0 123 6.44
J.Mesa 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 17 6.55
K.Davis 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 20 11.25
Totals 9 10 2 2 5 5 1
ATTENDANCE- 27,783 DATE- Saturday, September 29th 2007 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
T- 3:04
LEFT ON BASE- Nationals:12 Phillies: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Nationals: 0 Phillies: 1
DOUBLES- J.Rollins(35th), C.Utley(43rd), R.Howard(38th)
HOME RUNS- W.Pena(13th), P.Burrell(35th), A.Rowand(27th), C.Ruiz(8th)
STOLEN BASES- J.Rollins(37th), J.Werth(2nd)
WALKS- D.Young, A.Kearns, R.Church, B.Schneider, D.Jimenez, P.Burrell, W.Helms,
A.Nunez
STRIKE OUTS- F.Lopez, R.Zimmerman, D.Young, A.Kearns, M.Chico, J.Rollins-2,
C.Utley, P.Burrell-2, A.Rowand
GIDP- A.Kearns
WILD PITCHES- A.Eaton-2
WEB GEMS- Bot 1st: Ryan Church robbed Chase Utley of an extra base hit.
Bot 4th: Austin Kearns robbed Ryan Howard of an extra base hit.
Jimmy Rollins had 2 base hits and 2 RBI as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the
woeful Washington Nationals by a score of 8 to 2.
Philadelphia jumped on top to stay in the bottom of the 2nd inning plating an
isolated run on 2 hits. Aaron Rowand hit a bases-empty home run (his 27th of
the season). Philadelphia had 12 hits for the afternoon.
The win was credited to Adam Eaton(9-13) who went 7 innings allowing no runs.
The loss was charged to Matt Chico(10-14). He was unable to control the
Philadelphia offense and allowed 8 hits and 2 walks in 3 and 2/3 innings.
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