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Lucky Number 13: Jayson Werth Walkoff HR Wins It

July 21st, 2009 BroadStreetHero
Jayson Werth picked a good time for his first walk off HR.

Jayson Werth picked a good time for his first walk off HR.

What a time to hit your first walk off home run! After walks to Ryan Howard and Raul Ibanez, Jayson Werth stepped up to the plate against hard throwing former Notre Dame tight end Jeff Samardzija, and he responded by crushing a fastball into the seats in left field. The Phillies win 4-1, their 10th straight win, and stay 6.5 games in front of the Braves in the NL East.

Hitting was not the story tonight. The Phillies pitching staff was brilliant tonight. Joe Blanton pitched 7 excellent innings. The bullpen pitched a 6 inning no hitter, highlighted by Chan Ho Park who pitched a perfect 3 innings of relief with 5 strikeouts, showing how dominant he has become.  I think his spectacular beard is intimidating hitters. Clay Condrey pitched for the first time since I don’t remember when and got his career high 6th win of the season. Madson and Lidge also pitched perfect innings in the game.

The Phillies have their longest winning streak (10 games) since 1991, and are now 53-38 on the season. This team is red hot and so much fun to watch right now. With the way we are playing the Blue Jays will be begging us to trade them something for Halladay.

Share your thoughts on tonight’s great pitcher’s duel, capped off by a 3 run shot by Jayson Werth!

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Roy Halladay is on the Market

July 7th, 2009 BroadStreetHero

According to Ken Rosenthal, Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay is “all but out” of Toronto.  They apparently are ready to deal the Cy Young winner, but teams who are interested will pay a steep price to get him.  For the Phillies that would mean losing many of these players/prospects:

  • J.A. Happ (SP): Phillies #3 pitching prospect, currently in rotation
  • John Mayberry, Jr. (OF): Phillies #8 prospect
  • Carlos Carrasco (SP): Phillies #1 pitching prospect, 7th overall
  • Michael Taylor (OF): Phillies #6 prospect
  • Kyle Drabek (SP): Phillies #2 pitching prospect
  • Lou Marson (C)
  • Jason Donald (SS): Phillies #4 prospect
  • Jason Knapp (SP): 84.2 IP, 112 Ks so far this season
  • Dominic Brown (OF): Phillies top prospect
  • Kyle Kendrick (SP)

My brother just went to a Lakewood game to see Knapp pitch he said that in 2-3 years he is going to be downright filthy.  He has to work on control, but he has a 96 mph fastball and is a strikeout machine.  I wouldn’t want to see him dealt in a Halladay trade.  JA Happ has emerged as a viable starter, but in a trade scenario he is all but gone.  When it comes to our outfield prospects, I think they are more expendable because our outfield already has good depth and strong starters.  I wouldn’t mind losing Carrasco at this point because he has faltered in the last year, and I don’t know how ready he is to play.

David Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News has an article about possible trade rumors here: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillies/How_much_is_too_much_for_Halladay.html

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