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05/18/2004 Archived Entry: "Phillies Journal - 2004"
Phillies Journal - 2004
by Max Blue
http://maxblue3.tripod.com/darkblue
BOWA SLOWA
It was a ten game road trip and we won seven of the first eight. We lost the final two in Colorado by the same 7-6 score. You could argue we would have won those if Billy Wagner was healthy, but he’s not. Yesterday’s loss was hard to take. Into the seventh Randy Wolf was breezing with a 6-0 lead. A guy named Holiday hit a homerun with one out and the next guy hit a lazy pop fly that Byrd and Abreu let drop and Bowa takes Wolf out of the game to bring in Cormier. Big mistake. Cormier was awful after pitching yesterday. Now comes the second mistake. He brings in Ryan Madson who had pitched two innings yesterday. The kid gets out of the seventh still leading 6-5, but he gives up a walk and a hit in the eighth to set up Bowa mistake number three. He brings in Tim Worrell who also pitched yesterday. Worrell polishes off the eighth but we all know he is a one-inning pitcher, right? So who besides Bowa thinks he can get through Todd Helton, Vinny Castilla, and Jeromy Burnitz in the ninth? He can’t. Helton walks and Castilla walks off with a homer. We lose 7-6.
So guess what? We come home to face the Dodgers. Question for the manager: When Padilla runs out of gas in the fifth or sixth inning who will pitch? Cormier? Madson? Worrell? What about Crowell and that other guy you called up from Scranton? Why didn’t they pitch yesterday when you had a five-run lead?
It hurts.
GLOPMOC
Bowa Bowa, you brain-dead goon,
You took Wolfie out way too soon.
This game was clearly ours to win,
To lose it was a mortal sin.
How’d you like a trip to the moon?
Monday May 17, 2004. Coors Field, Denver.
Colorado -7, Philadelphia – 6.
