Phillies-Giants NLCS Preview: Starting Rotations
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 14th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics, Series Preview | 5 Comments »
On the whole, there will not be a match-up in the playoffs more heralded than the clashing of the Phillies' and Giants' starting rotations. The Phillies, of course, are given the edge as they have three pitchers in the top-15 ...
Phillies-Giants NLCS Preview: Starting Eight
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 63 Comments »
The Phillies are four wins away from a third consecutive World Series appearance. If that happens, they would be the the first National League representative to accomplish that feat since the 1942-44 St. Louis Cardinals. While the San Francisco Giants ...
Halladay-Oswalt-Hamels Could Be Historically Great
by Bill Baer on Monday, October 11th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 19 Comments »
As mentioned in the Game Three recap, the Phillies barely used their bullpen to fend off the Cincinnati Reds, instead relying on baseball's best starting rotation. Of the 27 innings, the starters pitched 23 of them, including two complete game ...
Hamels Sends Phillies to NLCS
by Bill Baer on Sunday, October 10th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 20 Comments »
If the Phillies are trying to avoid having the most irrelevant bullpen in post-season history, they're not doing a great job of it. The bullpen tossed a sum total of four innings in the three NLDS games against the Cincinnati ...
Is Acting Unethical in Baseball?
by Bill Baer on Saturday, October 9th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 28 Comments »
UPDATE 10/12/10: Animated .gif files have been removed due to bandwidth issues. During the bottom of the seventh inning of Game Two of the NLDS against the Cincinnati Reds, Chase Utley was awarded first base when it seemed like a ...
Amateur Hour at Citizens Bank Park
by Bill Baer on Saturday, October 9th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 10 Comments »
In the post-season, fans are usually subject to high-caliber baseball as the best offenses, pitching staffs, and defenses tend to rise to the top by the end of 162 regular season games. Of the eight playoff teams this year, only ...
Roy Halladay’s No-Hitter, Moment by Moment
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 7th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 41 Comments »
The following is a submission from Nick Scott, who writes for fellow ESPN SweetSpot blog Royals Authority as well as Broken Bat Single. He analyzed every millisecond in the final out of Roy Halladay's no-hitter last night against the ...
Doc’s No-No: By the Numbers
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 7th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 14 Comments »
If you happened to be vacationing somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy yesterday, you're probably wondering why Roy Halladay is still the top trending topic on Twitter. The right-hander, already the author of a perfect game during the regular season, ...
Roy Halladay Tosses Second Post-Season No-Hitter
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 19 Comments »
Roy Halladay was as dominant as ever tonight, tossing just the second post-season no-hitter in baseball history. He needed only 104 pitches to get through 28 batters with the lone dent on his stellar outing a fifth-inning walk to ...
Phillies-Reds NLDS Preview: Q&A with Chad Dotson
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, Interviews, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Series Preview | 6 Comments »
Philadelphia is ready to enjoy yet another year of post-season baseball. I believe it was the great philosopher Sun Tzu Zack de la Rocha, of Rage Against the Machine, who once said "Know your enemy". What better way to know ...
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