Pre-game:
The Phils take a 1-game lead into Miami for a three game series against the Marlins.
Joe Blanton looks to continue his looong climb to respectibility against Florida lefthander Andrew Miller, who the Phils tagged for 7 earned runs in 4 innings.
Miller's splits include a .545 opposing batting average against left-anded hitters.
Looks like another night of beer-league softball between the Phils and the Fish.
Top 1st:
Andrew Miller couldn't locate a breaking ball to save his life last week.
It looks like Miller practiced, or something, because his off-speed pitches key a 1-2-3 inning tonight.
Bottom 1st: 0-0
Joe Blanton gets off to a strong start, retiring Emilio Bonifacio and even the Great Logan Morrison on grounders.
Hanley Ramirez strokes a routine line-drive to left. It should be the third out, but falls in for a hit becuase Raul Ibanez is playing somehwere in suburban Jacksonville.
Dan Uggla draws a walk to make things interesting, but Blanton locks Gaby Sanchez with a filthy curve to end the inning.
Top 2nd: 0-0
While Jayson Werth scored plenty on South Beach during the Phils last visit to Miami, he was scoreless on the baseball diamond going 3-for-15 with 7 strikeouts.
Looks like Werth layed off the nightclubs this time around, as he strokes his first ever hit against Miller over the right-field fence.
Two batters later, Wilson Valdez bats as Chris Wheeler and Tom McCarthy sing his praises
GOING PIGEON PRESENTS: CRIMINAL MINDS PART IV (continued from 9/8/10)
After hours of interrogation, Nate Robinson is released from Philadelphia Police Headquarters due to a lack of evidence.
As Special Agent Emily Prentiss tries to grab a cat nap on the B.A.U. jet en route to Miami, she is jolted by her cell phone.
FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia is on the line.
Garcia: "Prentiss! I hope you haven't eaten because I got some disgusting news!"
Prentiss: "I was too tired to eat . . . by the way you woke me up."
Garcia: "The crime lab here figured out that the fecal matter on the sock puppet-"
Prentiss: "REALLY, Garcia?"
Garcia: "-stay with me girlfiend - it contained traces and ground beef and A-1 sauce."
Prentiss: "So you woke me to say the unsub ate a hamburger before he took a crap."
Garcia: "Wait for it . . .the only fast-food joint in Philly that serves burgers with A-1 sauce is Checkers. And the crime techs found a Checkers wrapper in one of the player lockers!
Prentiss: "So our unsub is Joe Blanton?"
Top 3rd: PHI 1 - FLA 0
The Jayson Werth home run seems to have shaken the meager confidence of Andrew Miller. The Phils are collecting base hits but Miller keeps recording timely outs to keep the score 1-0.
But no amount of timely pitches can defend against the Napalm that Miller tosses to Utley with 2 outs in the third. The ball lands about 25 rows back in the right field seats.
A smiling blonde shows Utley's home-run ball to her brunette companion.
"These Miami Heat pre-game shows are LONG, but they're kind of fun!"
Top 4th: PHI 2 - FLA 0
Andrew Miller entered the game with only two home-runs allowed in 2010.
The Phils enter the fourth inning having already doubled that total.
Panamanian native Carlos Ruiz can recognize an explosive substance as well as anyone, and sends Miller's next ball of Napalm into the blue seats at Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Land Shark/Sun Life Stadium.
Sounds like the makings of a Billy Joel song.
Raul Ibanez (walk) scores ahead of Ruiz to make the score 4-0.
Top 5th: PHI 4 - FLA 0
The Florida Marlins are no friend of the Atlanta Braves, and as they become aware that the Braves are pounding the visiting Nationals, they decide they have nothing better to do that aid their erstwhile rivals from Philly.
Chase Utley gets picked off first base, but Gaby Sanchez is too busy checking the NY Jets on his fantasy football team to bother thowing to second base.
Andrew Miller than walks Ryan Howard before allowing Werth to dunk a single to left. Logan Morrison, who owned the Phils at Citizens Bank Park last week, is distracted when Joe Flacco - his fantasy quarterback is sacked by the Jet defense.
Morrison grabs Werth's hit but sneaks a peek at his IPhone and heaves the ball into the Phillies dugout, allowing Howard to score behind Chase Utley.
Carlos Ruiz continues his ownership of JRPPDLS Stadium with an RBI single to score Werth.
GOING PIGEON PRESENTS: CRIMINAL MINDS PART V
Penelope Garcia gathers herself after her collegue's snide remark.
Garcia: "You leave my sweetheart Joe out of this . . . the locker with the Checker' wrapper belonged to Wilson Valdez!"
Special Agent Spencer Reed becomes engrossed in the phone converstation and cuts off his Facebook chat with Pheobe from the Game Stop store outside of Qunatico.
Reed: "There is motive here. Wilson Valdez has been a journeyman infielder his entire career. Now he's with a championship contender where's he just one pulled hamstring away the starting lineup."
Prentiss: "Reed . . . there have been 17 Phillie players on the disabled list this year. Surely Wilson Valdez can't be repsonsible for all of the injuries?"
Garcia: "OMG! Guys . . . I just pulled up Valdez's work records from back in the Dominican Republic - his family struggled to make ands meet and he used to help his mom . . . sow sock puppets!"
Prentiss: Garcia! Get Hoch and Morgan! They need to get to Valdez's apartment NOW!"
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Unlike last Wednesday's nail-biter victory over Miller and the Fish, the Phils don't allows nerves to enter the picture. The Phils add 3 runs in the sixth and 1 run in the seventh.
Cowboy Joe Blanton finishes 6 strong innings the the Marlins never draw closer than the final score of 11-4.
Final score: Phillies 11 - Marlins 4
Final score from Atlanta: Braves 4 - Nationals 0.
I am Don Pigeon and I am OUT!!!
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