GDT 6/16/24 Philadelphia Phillies (Wheeler) @ Baltimore Orioles (Burnes)

[HopeSpringsEternal]

So you’re saying Wheeler had a bad day.

I’m expecting a great outing against Arizona at CBP later this week. Need to flush today’s disaster.

[kikutaro]

Kyle Schwarber

Defensive Substitution: Austin Hays replaces right fielder Anthony Santander, batting 5th, playing left field.
Defensive switch from left field to right field for Colton Cowser.
Ball (88.6 mph cutter)
Ball (87.7 mph cutter)
Ball (89.1 mph cutter)
Ball (89.4 mph cutter)

Kyle Schwarber walks.

[kikutaro]

Nick Castellanos

Mound Visit.
Pitching Change: Jacob Webb replaces Nick Vespi.
Called strike (93.4 mph four-seam fastball)
Swinging strike (82.7 mph sweeper)
Ball (83.9 mph sweeper)
Foul (83.3 mph sweeper)
Swinging strike (94.8 mph four-seam fastball)

Nick Castellanos strikes out swinging.

[kikutaro]

Bryce Harper

Ball (94.5 mph four-seam fastball)
Swinging strike (95. mph four-seam fastball)
Called strike (85. mph changeup)
Foul (93.8 mph four-seam fastball)
In play, no out (85.7 mph changeup)

Bryce Harper reaches on a fielding error by second baseman Jordan Westburg. Kyle Schwarber to 2nd.

[kikutaro]

Alec Bohm

In play, out(s) (82.7 mph sweeper)

Alec Bohm flies out to center fielder Cedric Mullins.

[kikutaro]

Bryson Stott

Called strike (82.9 mph sweeper)
Ball (94. mph four-seam fastball)
Foul (94.5 mph four-seam fastball)
Ball (94.7 mph four-seam fastball)
In play, no out (95.2 mph four-seam fastball)

Bryson Stott reaches on a throwing error by first baseman Ryan Mountcastle. Kyle Schwarber to 3rd. Bryce Harper to 2nd.

[VoteForKalas]

Not surprised, his team is playing like crap and the umps have been awful

[kikutaro]

Edmundo Sosa

Mound Visit.
Pitching Change: Yennier Cano replaces Jacob Webb.
Called strike (94.3 mph sinker)
Called strike (95.8 mph sinker)
Ball (86.6 mph slider)
Swinging strike (86.2 mph slider)

Edmundo Sosa strikes out swinging.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Philadelphia Phillies	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	10	1
Baltimore Orioles	1	2	1	0	4	0	0	0		8	10	3

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Current Batters

Philadelphia Phillies

Hitters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	HR	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Kyle Schwarber DH	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	.248	.367	.431	.798
Nick Castellanos RF	5	0	0	1	0	3	0	.204	.263	.347	.610
Bryce Harper 1B	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	.280	.390	.519	.909
Alec Bohm 3B	4	0	3	2	1	0	0	.302	.355	.475	.830
Bryson Stott 2B	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	.234	.333	.362	.695
Edmundo Sosa SS	5	0	1	0	0	2	0	.277	.338	.500	.838
Brandon Marsh CF	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	.256	.337	.411	.748
Whit Merrifield LF	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.192	.276	.300	.576
David Dahl LF	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.231	.231	.538	.769
Cristian Pache CF	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.219	.311	.297	.608
Garrett Stubbs C	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	.191	.267	.206	.473
Zack Wheeler P								.000	.000	.000	.000
Spencer Turnbull P								.000	.000	.000	.000
Seranthony Domínguez P								.000	.000	.000	.000

Baltimore Orioles

Hitters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	HR	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Gunnar Henderson SS	5	1	1	1	0	3	1	.274	.370	.588	.958
Adley Rutschman C	5	1	1	1	0	2	1	.289	.333	.473	.806
Ryan Mountcastle 1B	5	1	1	0	0	3	0	.270	.315	.469	.784
Ryan O'Hearn DH	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	.282	.341	.468	.809
Anthony Santander RF	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	.231	.306	.494	.800
Austin Hays LF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.240	.298	.365	.663
Jordan Westburg 2B	4	2	2	3	0	1	1	.278	.332	.504	.836
Cedric Mullins CF	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	.189	.240	.323	.563
Colton Cowser RF	2	1	2	2	1	0	1	.234	.326	.442	.768
Ramón Urías 3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.242	.292	.384	.676
Corbin Burnes P								.000	.000	.000	.000
Cionel Pérez P								.000	.000	.000	.000
Nick Vespi P								.000	.000	.000	.000
Jacob Webb P								.000	.000	.000	.000
Yennier Cano P								.000	.000	.000	.000

Current Pitchers

Philadelphia Phillies

Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-K	ERA
Zack Wheeler	4.1	9	8	8	2	4	4	91-57	2.84
Spencer Turnbull	2.2	1	0	0	1	4	0	37-25	2.79
Seranthony Domínguez	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	17-11	4.38

Baltimore Orioles

Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-K	ERA
Corbin Burnes	6.0	7	2	2	2	7	0	94-61	2.14
Cionel Pérez	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	17-12	4.05
Nick Vespi	1.0	1	0	0	1	2	0	14-8	0.00
Jacob Webb	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	16-12	1.91
Yennier Cano	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4-3	2.30

[HopeSpringsEternal]

Sure glad that the Phillies won Friday’s game in extra innings.

[Philsmania]

The injuries and unconventional travel because of the London trip have taken a toll and the pitching seems to have hit a mid-season dead-arm phase. It's going to be a slog to the All-Star break.

[bkox]

I dont know how much of this is because of the London series.. but I think MLB should make a couple changes. IMO both teams should have a home series after the London series. Having to go to london and then another week on the road seems a little excessive.

Also wouldnt mind just seeing the London series being held the last weekend before the All-Star-Game.

[donaldorc]

This was simply awful! I hope Rob's tirade puts some fire their bellies for the next series. At least Bohm's on fire again.

[zambonir]

Good thing they saved all those relievers by using Soto and Ruiz in yesterday's winnable game.

I think where the Phillies got screwed was having a West Coast trip (including Denver at altitude) so close to the London trip. And it was a bit unlucky to be facing two of the better teams on the schedule, including the best one to date.

Not sure it matters that they were on the road afterwards though, if their disrupted minds and bodies were going to stink for six games may as well do it on the road. Had they been home and gone 3-3 that would have been worse than this.

Yup, flush it. Take the next two series at home against two good but still sub-.500 teams. Starting pitchers need to show they're back in rhythm even more than the hitters.

Pretty sure this eight-game lead is still, y'know, better than every day of every Phillies season for the previous two years (and the ten before that as well).

[flyers19rw]

Something needs to be done with the performance of umpires across the board.The egregious miscalling of balls and strikes is one thing. The growing number of calls in the field being overturned by video replay is an indicator of further incompetence by the men in blue. The game is getting faster but it might be time for umpires to slow down making their calls. It would be better to be slower and correct than quick and inaccurate. As it is now, their integrity is being challenged as Thompson did yesterday.

[BostonRoss]

I am not sure the umpires have gotten much worse. It's just that now we can confirm errors we couldn't see with older technology. The calls on the bases and in the field are being corrected through replay; so maybe we need to focus on ball/strike improvements. Robot umps may not be imminent, but a challenge system could happen soon.

[zambonir]

They have almost certainly gotten better, at least by the modern, technology-driven standards. In the old days umps could basically each have their own strike zone and were just expected to be consistent. It was probably even part of the scouting reports. Now, while the box we see on TV still isn't necessarily the last word, everyone does eventually know exactly how many calls they got right or missed.

One assumes we get the challenge system in 2027 (new CBA). There does not seem to be much enthusiasm across the board (players, umps, commish) for going all-automated yet.

[bkeich]

Just watch a game from the 90s, particularly with Greg Maddox or any game Eric Gregg umpired and you will quickly realize how much better the umpires are now at ball/strike than they used to be. Pitchers actually had a known skill of slowly moving pitches away from the plate and as long as they only moved an inch at a time umps would fall for it (Maddox was the master).

Gregg notoriously called everything between the dugouts a strike.