He’s 24 years old, his name, Spencer Howard. He’s on tap to start his first MLB game on Sunday during the doubleheader against the Braves this weekend. It’s a much anticipated start by Howard as the Phillies are looking for someone else to solidify this starting rotation and add reliability. Embed from Getty Images The Phils will be playing 3 […]
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It’s the dreaded Covid-19 virus that has killed over 150,000 in the USA alone as of now, it struck the Miami Marlins with about 17 infections of coach and players… Forcing the Phillies to have postponements because they faced the Marlins team, here’s the latest podcast for Phillies Talk Podcast.
The Phillies and the Yankees were postponed, the Phils have all tested negative so far in the Covid-19 tests after playing a Marlins team that had a massive break-out of the virus among its players. So far it is officially unknown on how the team got infected so badly. Embed from Getty Images Baseball hasn’t slowed down too much, here […]
The news yesterday that up to 16 players and coaches had tested positive for the Covid-19 virus from the Marlins (8 known yesterday and 4 previously) after they had played in Philadelphia caused the cancellation of not only the Marlins game that was scheduled in Miami, but also the Phillies vs Yankees which was scheduled to take place last night […]
Vince Velasquez was handed an early lead yesterday and did nothing but squander it. The Phillies came out swinging against stand-in pitcher Robert Dugger for the Marlins who wasn’t too good either when he was asked to pitch for the team following the scratch of Marlins pitcher Jose Urena was a late scratch from the mound. The Phillies plated 4 […]
The Phillies were firing on all cylinders towards the middle of yesterday afternoon’s game against the Marlins. Backed by rock-solid pitching in Zack Wheeler, the Phils offensive juggernaut took a while to get going but once it did, there was no looking back. A 7-1 victory was the final tally and the runs came from a guy (more on him […]
The Phillies burst into the 2020 season last night with the zeal that some of the rioters and looters of just about 6-weeks ago burst into and out of stores in major cities like Philly. More about the stores later. In a close game early on, the Phils couldn’t muster up some offense to get on the board. The team […]
The much anticipated start to the 2020 baseball season will take place tonight, as the MLB tries to salvage what it can from a Pandemic that is still very much a concern in the US, even as much as it was in mid-March when baseball and much of the country came to a screeching halt. Embed from Getty Images The […]
I watched most of the Phillies intrasquad game last night, it was good to see baseball back on the field, very strange at the same time. We’ve heard that the Phils will be doing some crowd noise and things like that, perhaps that will be coming up on the scrimmage games coming up over the weekend. It was quite boring […]
Yesterday, there were articles in the press that the Phillies would indeed be playing walk-up music and having prerecorded crowd noise fill the stadium at times. Here is the link to the MLB.com article, and here is another to the Philadelphia Inquirer article. This should be an entertaining sideline to what will be going on with the baseball game. In […]
The schedules of all 30 MLB teams were released on MLB Network Live at 6PM EDT tonight. Leading off, the Phils take on the Marlins at home on July 24-26, then take on a New York Yankee squad in 4 straight games, home and home style. A trip to Canada (or wherever the Blue Jays will play their games) is […]
Well, it looks as if we’re going to have baseball, even as the news that Covid-19 has made a dramatic comeback as the nation starts to get back to a sense of normalcy. Finally an agreement has been made, after many weeks of back and forth between owners and players. Embed from Getty Images What can we as fans expect […]
Ok, the votes are in… yes, all three to four weeks of them. So, we’re apparently going to see some baseball being played this year. According to what we’re reading on twitter, and this morning in the newspapers. Here’s our @nydnsports back page. @mlb @mlbnetwork #robmanfred @apse_sportmedia @nascar #BubbaWallace https://t.co/OX1kneLH02 pic.twitter.com/uuByCKu32H — Back Page Guy NYDN (@BackPageGuyNYDN) June 23, 2020 […]
We’ve all heard the news by now, players and owners can’t quite get together on a start to a 2020 season now that some of the Covid-19 shutdowns have now slowly started to end. You can still place a wager on this though, here’s what Las Vegas says about a 2020 season with odds: (thanks to Jimmy Shapiro at Press […]
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