Alfonseca starts off by walking Juan Uribe and has a brief meltdown. After the fourth ball, Alfonseca turns away from home plate umpire Adrian Johnson and flips his glove in the air disgustedly.
Umpires don’t dig that kind of stuff and Chase Utley quickly scurries in to calm down Alfonseca. Rich Dubee comes out as well. The mound session ends with what looks like Alfonseca apologizing to Johnson.
Alfonseca gets Rob Macowiak to ground into a doubleplay and a fly out a batter later to end it.
The Phils win and close the Mets lead to 2 1/2 games. It’s the first home sweep of the year and improves the Phils to 31-20 since April 20, best mark in the majors over that time span. The Mets are at the Dodgers tonight (10:10 p.m. EST start).
Oh, and for the third consecutive game, Jim Thome was on-deck when the game ended.
Comments (11)
Rock on Phils! To the playoffs.....
Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2007 4:07 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:07
Woo-Hoo!
I just won deep dish pizzas from Lou Malanetti's in Chicago!
Victory tastes so sweet!
Posted by Ted | June 13, 2007 4:07 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:07
Nice job Ed!
Thanks for making my afternoon fly by!
You should do this for every afternoon game. I am available to help out if needed
Posted by Ted | June 13, 2007 4:09 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:09
Eddie, great job once again covering the Phillies game with your blog. It is a lot of fun listening to the game and watching your blog update. GREAT JOB AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Kevin O'Brien | June 13, 2007 4:10 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:10
Thanks for doing this. I can't listen to the audio at work. This was a great color commentary compliment to the Yahoo! play-by-play web page. I also enjoyed all of the comments.
I look forward to the next one!
Posted by Mike in Seattle | June 13, 2007 4:13 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:13
I'll join in, with a BIG THANKS ED!!! That was fun........ see you on DNL sometime soon!
Posted by A FAN | June 13, 2007 4:14 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:14
He will be on tonight
Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2007 4:16 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:16
This was the first time I have seen this blog and followed it during a game. It is great! I loved it.
Posted by rick | June 13, 2007 4:17 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:17
Anyone have the pitching matchups for the Tigers series?
Posted by Ted | June 13, 2007 4:18 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:18
Very nice Eddie B. You da man!
Posted by Bob H | June 13, 2007 4:27 PM
Posted on June 13, 2007 16:27
i love how utley is the 1st to the mound in most pressure situations to calm his pitchers. he has a great baseball head on his shoulders besides becoming great defensive 2nd baseman to complement his offensive skills. it is his team, deservedly. maybe i was seein things, but it looked like alfonseca patted the butt of home plate umpire as mound conference was breaking up!
Posted by francis j. tysiak | June 14, 2007 6:05 AM
Posted on June 14, 2007 06:05