Phightin Phills advance to NLCS!

For the 3rd consecutive season, the Philadelphia Phillies advanced to the NLCS last week. The Phillies swept the underdog Reds in 3 games, and actually only allowed 11 hits the whole entire series! That is the least amount of hits in a playoff series in over a decade. Needless to say, the Phillies pitching has been on-point. Fueled by the ace Roy Halladay's no hitter, the rest of the pitching staff followed through strong and performed nearly as well as Roy, and led the Phills to the series sweep. Starting Saturday Oct.16th, the Phillies will take on Tim Lincecum and the San Fransisco Giants. The two teams match-up pretty well because of the dominant pitching staff of both teams. However, the Phillies have a much more potent offense that should lead them to a series victory. The city of  Philadelphia awaits Saturday night to see if Roy Halladay can outpitch Tim Lincecum in what should be a very low-scoring but great game of baseball.

Roy Halladay: No Hitter on 10/6/10

When it comes to Roy Halladay, there is not much to be said other than he is the best pitcher in Major League Baseball. Not only did the ace lead us to the all important game 1 in a best-of-5 series, but he did it without allowing any hits, a feat that has only been accomplished 1 single time ( Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series) prior to wednesday. Another amazing aspect of his accomplishment was that only 4 balls were even hit out of the infield! As a pitcher, I can really appreciate an accomplishment of this stature because I understand how truly hard it is to do it. I have taken no hitters into the last inning (but I only play 7-inning games) but I was never able to finish the job through. It is mentally and physically exhausting being out there knowing you have a no hitter in tact, and that really takes a toll on a pitcher when he or she is out there. Roy, on the other hand, showed a great sense of poise as he retired batter after batter on his way into the history books yet again. I actually found This Article online of a guy who downgrades his performance Wednesday night, saying that his accomplishment was not too impressive. This really fired me up when I read it because Roy "The Doctor" Halladay pitched his heart out Wednesday night and I could not believe ANY intelligent human being, let alone a sportswriter, would say otherwise; apparently I was mistaken. However, I would like to conclude this post by saying Roy threw one of the best games of his hall-of-fame career Wednesday. Oh, did I mention it was his FIRST postseason start of his life? Yep, you heard that correctly!    ...Game 2 tonight at 6:07pm ET tune in.