anout last night...

so that was painful.

i thought things were gonna go our way, we managed to touch up doc a bit, scoring early (which is an obvious necessity when going against top-notch pitching). infante made a heads up play at second to force a runner's interference. so far, so good.

until the bottom of the third. the phillies must of had some pent-up ya-yas, because they let loose on the marlins' ace. with the help of some questionable defense the score at the end of the inning was 5-1, and doc was given the cushion he needed to put our lights out. which he did. no more offense on our part, another run on theirs. 

the best part of the whole broadcast (which i was able to catch at home!) was good-looking marlins' on-field reporter allison williams getting a bit of extra attention from the philly fanatic.

 

 

allison williams

j.j. doesn't look good. he didn't look good opening day, and he definitely didn't look good last night. he's not striking folks out, and he's going deep in counts and giving up base hits. he's actually given up nearly as many hits in his two starts this year as he did in his nine-start abbreviated season last year. still, too early to be concerned. san fran's lincecum got rocked by the rockies for six earned runs last night, so at least there is ace that is looking like a dud.

but, as d00kie love said last night:

he needs to find his groove, he hasn't lost it. if we're having this conversation at the end of may, then i'm worried.

fair enough, let's hope we don't get there.

i'm not gonna be watching most of tonight's match-up, but i will spend the final innings with the radio broadcast team i grew so familiar with last year when i listened (no cable) to the radio broadcast nearly every evening.