Deja Vu All Over Again: Dbacks 1, Phillies 7
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I feel as though I have already written this recap about 20 times this season. The Dbacks starting pitching was able to keep the team in the game, but the offense never got going in this one as they have yet to get a hit with RISP this series.
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Perhaps the tone of the day was set before the game even started when the team announced the reinforcements have finally arrived! In the form of Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Blake Walston…. Yawn. Definitely not what the fans had in mind when the reinforcements kept getting brought up going into the trade deadline. Feels a lot like the game today, yawn.
Eduardo Rodriguez was ok allowing 3 runs, but labored through a couple of long innings that knocked him out of the game after just 5 innings. He threw 31 pitches in the first inning alone.
Gerardo Carillo really struggled in this one as he came in and could not throw strikes and wound up walking a batter and giving up 2 hits resulting in 3 ER. The Philles were really able to execute on offense tonight as they were able to do the job and put the ball in play with runners on base and hit sac fly RBI’s to go along with 13 hits against the Dbacks pitching staff.
The top 4 of the Dbacks order Perdomo, Carroll, Moreno, and Marte went a combined 1-15 tonight. This group flat out needs to start producing if this team is going to contend. And specifically Corbin Carroll continues to really be struggling as of late as he is just 1-9 in the series so far and 2-19 since the start of the Giants series. Its also worth noting that Carroll appeared to be grimacing while running up the line in the 6th inning and may be worth monitoring as he may be playing through something. According to Torey in the postgame, Carroll has some low back discomfort the last couple of days but in Torey’s words “its that time of the year” and is “in there tomorrow”.
The lone bright spot of this offense was Jordan Lawlar who hit a solo HR in the 5th inning. The offense as a whole collected 6 hits but went 0-4 tonight with RISP. As a team they have still not been able to get a hit with RISP this series. They have scored 2 or fewer runs in 6 of their last 9 games as this offense has disappeared when they have really needed it most. Not the time to be going cold going into September.
The Phillies are red hot winning 4 of their past 5 series and 15 of their past 17 games. The Dbacks definitely didn’t play as well as they should have, but they also are matching up with the hottest team in baseball right now. Hopefully they can at least avoid the sweep tomorrow and fortunately for them, the Padres also lost tonight. Still though, the offense has really been underwhelming the past couple of games and is a real concern moving forward.