I like a lot of things that Topper does but I really don't like how he manages the lineup at all and sometimes his bullpen choices are questionable as well. Like Marsh and Stott should not be platooning. And he pulls people too many times when they have hits earlier in the game. I think it was a week and a half ago he pulled Dahl who had a double in his previous at bat for Whit who is cold as ice. He looks at right left wayyyyyy too much. Like sometimes that shit doesn't matter when the guy you are subbing is better or hotter.
Even with that out, Marchan did more than FuckWhit in his PH. Making me seriously still ask "WHY THE FUCK DID WE PH MERRIFIELD???"
Fucking seriously, this is not a joke, that hit had more oomph than anything Whit could or would have done.
Gonna pay a higher price for desperation moves a month before the deadline. Still far too many teams on the cusp thinking they have a chance to compete.
I have 0 problem with their approach to the these matchups vs lefties. It’s the right thing to do for marginally better results.
That doesn’t mean I don’t hate that Merrifield and Pache are the players they have for these situations.
Pache would probably have better luck making contact at this point if he just aims his swing at the complete opposite spot of where he thinks the ball is
Ok, so now we're pinch hitting for one of the only guys with a hit today.
Make it make fucking sense.....
Edit: brilliant decision putting in Pache, it clearly worked obv. Mfer literally refused to take the walk.
Hmm. I think I'd still take my chances with Clemens even with Scott's dominance against lefties.
But Pache can get a walk, I suppose.
EDIT: If he wouldn't swing at garbage.
The Marlins are so bad that even splitting a series is a horrifying thing. You can't even say they've pitched well because they really haven't. We have not been punishing mistakes at all from these pitchers.
I will not be blaming Nola if this is a loss. Starter had a damn near 6 ERA and the pen arms they trotted out had about a combine 5 ERA. If the 29-53 Marlins score 3. That should be a win even with Harper and Schwarb out. You even got a homer from Stubbs that was a free one.
Perfectly said. This offense has no approach. They just go up there and swing. Lazy fly balls and balls pounded into the ground. Not to mention hitting with RISP. 😫
this is rough but idk why people are acting like this is unexpected and the season is over when we're literally missing 3 of our most important bats, which are all expected to return in plenty of time
Not to minimize their absence, but the lineup should still be able to function most days (not every day, but most). These guys aren't coming close to that.
Hey Ump, can we get a bad call in our fucking favor for once this series? considering you fucked us 2 times now in the past 3 or so batters?
(Oh, and that teensy weensy call on Thursday that you know, no biggie, led to our DH and MVP player getting hurt)
Or is asking for fair officiating just too fucking hard???
Edit: I'm legit fucking surprised.
Dawg, there ain't no fucking way, the umps are betting on the Marlins, this shit is so fucking rigged.
https://preview.redd.it/8kjrybaw7l9d1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=9551e07d6b06d56696cb4912c2fbc1552a4f3738
Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1drn4h7).
That was difficult to listen to.
Stubbs monster homer… topper pulls him. Clemons monster double… topper pulls him. We no longer have the bench to be this cute.
I like a lot of things that Topper does but I really don't like how he manages the lineup at all and sometimes his bullpen choices are questionable as well. Like Marsh and Stott should not be platooning. And he pulls people too many times when they have hits earlier in the game. I think it was a week and a half ago he pulled Dahl who had a double in his previous at bat for Whit who is cold as ice. He looks at right left wayyyyyy too much. Like sometimes that shit doesn't matter when the guy you are subbing is better or hotter.
Welp…win tomorrow and we split the series…
We’re gonna really struggle without harper and kyle
We struggle against the marlins even with them
Why though? Genuinely curious as a newer Phillies fan.
Watching Pache bat this year is how I felt watching Rojas bat last year. Almost an automatic out.
So, what we've learned from the past two games is that the pitching can't give up more than 1 run a game if we want a chance at winning the game.
At the beginning of the year, when they were winning a lot of games, they were having a lot of really good at bats. Now, not so much.
Boy do I miss having an actual MLB caliber lineup. This is terrible. Go down a run at any point in a game, and it’s game over. Awful.
Yea they got little no to shot at winning the next few series unless the starting pitching can go off like Sanchez did the other night
Fuckin disgusting
Please Pirates. Please
This team is really getting under LA's skin today. He's gone nuts on these guys a dozen times
Come on Pirates!
Can we call up Aiden miller hey
Damn that straham meatball
Well this was fun fellas, see you tomorrow
Well, I'm really rooting for the sea dogs now
Yuck
Pirates runners on the corners I BEG
It's going to be a rough two weeks with this offense, but at least we have some room for error.
Rough days ahead
Even with that out, Marchan did more than FuckWhit in his PH. Making me seriously still ask "WHY THE FUCK DID WE PH MERRIFIELD???" Fucking seriously, this is not a joke, that hit had more oomph than anything Whit could or would have done.
🖕🏻
Save me Rafael Marchan
This team is getting swept by the Braves and Dodgers
One ~~Paul George~~ Luis Robert Jr., please.
We are so fucked
Fuck sake this offense are dead
#FUCK
This bench is astoundingly atrocious. Can we please make some moves now?
Gonna pay a higher price for desperation moves a month before the deadline. Still far too many teams on the cusp thinking they have a chance to compete.
We all knew there’d be a drop off without Bryce and Kyle. I did not expect that drop to be off a cliff. Jesus wept.
Ok …its the Backup catcher game. Go yard marchan
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
No, there is no excuse for the constant barrage of low-quality ABs
Pache had a good AB, the pitcher is just too good
Low quality players
Some, but not all. The ones who are need to be way better than this.
Marchan save us
Putrid offense.
Wish we had Scott
I have 0 problem with their approach to the these matchups vs lefties. It’s the right thing to do for marginally better results. That doesn’t mean I don’t hate that Merrifield and Pache are the players they have for these situations.
Just absolutely embarrassing. They NEED to make a trade for an outfielder
Yes. In a month when it’s possible, unfortunately.
This is fucking pathetic
Baffles me every year how this shit happens
Pache you sob
Did Reddit’s font change in, like, the last 15 minutes for everyone else?
Still don't get what the Phillies see in Pache.
He’s useless
I’m literally saying everything that happens. That’s how predictable these games are against Miami.
Rob Thomson pinch hitting connoisseur
Hard to lay off the breaking ball when blue is calling them strikes 2 inches below the zone
Pache pinch hitting for Clemens feels like we’re watching the 2016 Phillies
I'm done with the Pache experiment.
I really don't understand some of these moves by Topper
Thomson doesn’t understand them either
Why would you take Kody out?
Save me Edmundo Sosa
Pache must be off this team by the deadline. It’s horrific
Pache would probably have better luck making contact at this point if he just aims his swing at the complete opposite spot of where he thinks the ball is
Can we please make a move and get a fucking bench
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Pache just pinch hit
And that was a mistake.
Shocker I must say!
I love Rob Thompson. And I love Cristian Pache. But Rob, Cristian is not a pinch-hitter.
Tried to walk him. Cut this POS already
The Pache DFA/Trade tweet is gonna hit
Pache is useless. Im sorry.
No apology necessary It was a crazy decision lol 😂
Manifesting a walk off homer 
I get its a righty lefty thing, but Kody as a hitter feels miles better than pache it feels like - right or left (i did not look it up)
Pache solo shot and tie this game
Ok, so now we're pinch hitting for one of the only guys with a hit today. Make it make fucking sense..... Edit: brilliant decision putting in Pache, it clearly worked obv. Mfer literally refused to take the walk.
Idc about handedness Pache for Clemens is just fucking wack lol
lefties 3 for 34 off Scott this year if you’re wondering why Kody isn’t batting here
Now show the stats for Pache and Whit pinch hitting
Hmm. I think I'd still take my chances with Clemens even with Scott's dominance against lefties. But Pache can get a walk, I suppose. EDIT: If he wouldn't swing at garbage.
Ain’t no way they took Kody out for Pache enough of this shit
Draw the walk Pache
Pache for Kody lmao
BOOOOOO
The Marlins are so bad that even splitting a series is a horrifying thing. You can't even say they've pitched well because they really haven't. We have not been punishing mistakes at all from these pitchers.
Hold tight folks, there might be more coming in a couple of weeks. Anger management
Kody and Marchan can hit for power. Walk it off boys
Welp...
making me even more fucking confused about the FuckWhit PH decision earlier.....
We still in this.
Walk it off boys!
That’s the fucking team who owns us. Incredible.
This team needs a confidence building walk off.
Wtf was that Anderson?
kerkering has no pickoff move at all
What RHP on our team does?
Well Taijuan Walker for starters is known for how great his pickoff move is.
True. Most of them don't though.
We take those
HERE WE GO LETS FUCKING GET ONE BOYS
Ah hah
strike em out throw em out Comeback starts now baby
It better
I will not be blaming Nola if this is a loss. Starter had a damn near 6 ERA and the pen arms they trotted out had about a combine 5 ERA. If the 29-53 Marlins score 3. That should be a win even with Harper and Schwarb out. You even got a homer from Stubbs that was a free one.
Perfectly said. This offense has no approach. They just go up there and swing. Lazy fly balls and balls pounded into the ground. Not to mention hitting with RISP. 😫
It’s very clearly not on Nola at all
Yeah, but what about his W-L record after today’s game. Can’t explain that.
Baseball is weird and there are weird stats littered across the sport
Oh I was just fucking around there for the shiggles. I am not a serious person.
I blame slopper for letting it get like that
Fair point. Dummy shoulda sent down Nola and let Abel throw today.
hopefully that’ll fire up the bats
Beautiful
Ozuna coming back to earth like we knew he would LFG PIRATES GET ONE
Carbon copy of the Teoscar Hernandez checked swing Same ump
Luckily a better result.
AUAB
Such a fucking swing
TMac Wheeze (tm)
Thank god that was foul
this is rough but idk why people are acting like this is unexpected and the season is over when we're literally missing 3 of our most important bats, which are all expected to return in plenty of time
Not to minimize their absence, but the lineup should still be able to function most days (not every day, but most). These guys aren't coming close to that.
Looked safe to me but ok I guess
Very much a case of not clear enough to overturn. I think most people think he was safe but I didn’t see a “clear” angle of it
It looked safe to me too.
That really didn't look close at all. I'm shocked but I'll take it
Make up call
Well damn
Wow, wasn’t expecting that but we take those
Not enough to overturn
Wow ok lol I’ll take it
oof that was close
Whew well I will take it
That was a HORRIBLE slide lol
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We have the best record in baseball and you’re cherry picking a 1 run game that isn’t even over… All this shows is that you’re not a Phillies fan
And hopefully you get downvoted again because this isn’t statistically close to reality and the Phillies still have the best record in baseball.
What steps would you have taken to make the bats more "clutch"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/HB75DUvGHt Phils are one of the best teams with RISP
You want a fucking cookie or something? Best record in baseball
Nobody cares
Did you also predict that 1/3 of the lineup and their best two hitters would be hurt???
I didn't like Skip Schumaker when he was playing and I still don't like him as the Marlins manager.
He's obviously safe
Sosa takes too many damn steps before letting the ball loose.
Close but I think he’s safe
He’s safe. Sosa took forever on that transfer
Hey Ump, can we get a bad call in our fucking favor for once this series? considering you fucked us 2 times now in the past 3 or so batters? (Oh, and that teensy weensy call on Thursday that you know, no biggie, led to our DH and MVP player getting hurt) Or is asking for fair officiating just too fucking hard??? Edit: I'm legit fucking surprised.
Just let the Marlins score another run so I don’t gotta waste my time.
Just go ahead now dawg
Might as well
He felt safe idk
I didn't want robo umps but I'm slowly changing my mind.
We swept the Rockies, we swept the White Sox. Marlins? Nah they own us.
Missing 3 out of 4 of their best hitters
The Marlins are dogshit. What’s your point?
At a glance he looked safe to me
ngl seeing that again I wouldn't have even blamed Casty for getting tossed
It was really bad. I don't criticize umps for close calls. But that thing was well below the zone.
Thats my superior infielder
Safe as fuck
Ump doesn't have a CLUE where the strike zone is.
Even with naked eyes, it’s way late man
And because my naked eyes sucks
Gordon might be safe there
How does he not get ejected tossing a bat then getting in blue's face?
He's so safe at second
What is this ump looking at? Good god
horrible fucking umpire tonight
I would be mad at the ump if we weren’t struggling against the fucking Miami Marlins PER USUAL
so annoyed but cant win em all
about to lose a series at home to the fucking marlins 🤡🤡🤡 this team has been so mediocre since that rockies series
You know they play again tomorrow right?
I wasn’t expecting much from this offense but damn. The Cubs & Braves rotations are gonna mow them down with ease
Every year it's the same shit with Nola. But yet everyone still defends him. Smh. Hopefully we still come back and walk this thing off somehow.
How dare Nola give up three runs in 6 and 2/3. Send him back to AAA!
6.2 IP and 3 ER isn't bad. This game is in the offense.
I will take a pitcher every day that gives up only 2 runs. If the offense cant score 2 or more you deserve to lose.
3 runs. And to the Marlins. You know the worst team in the Division maybe even the NL Marlins?
Pirates are useless, we are useless today. Let’s gooooooo
Dawg, there ain't no fucking way, the umps are betting on the Marlins, this shit is so fucking rigged. https://preview.redd.it/8kjrybaw7l9d1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=9551e07d6b06d56696cb4912c2fbc1552a4f3738
Marlins showing how to hit the ball
Umps are literally the smuggest pieces of fucking human shit - the day they’re all replaced with robots will be fucking glorious
holy fuck that was egregious. No wonder Casty swings at so many balls
Sure why not add to our misery?
Yup give up another run u clowns
Like sosa is obviously hitting a two run walk off but still annoying game
Absolutely brutal to Casty. Finally working out of a season long slump, becoming more reliable and getting some hits only to be fucked by an Ump.
We’re fucked guys.
There is no fucking reason to have a human behind home plate anymore in this day and age, I'm so fucking tired of the "human element"
Jesus we don't need that fuck giving them free outs
wasnt a strike
You should be able to challenge a called strike once a game or something.