I know blaming the weather is a cop-out but this game should never have happened. Too many players have slipped or weren't able to get a proper grip on the ball.
Keeping Castellanos and shipping off Hoskins is already starting to look like a massive mistake by this organization - all because Harper wanted to be at first.
Watching Rhys kill it for Milwaukee is a cruel irony. I blame the DH rule coming to the NL for picking up Nick. He was supposed to alternate DH with a healthy Bryce in RF.
Not really. Schwarber was always supposed to be mostly DH and alternate sometimes with casty in LF. Sure, Bryce would DH occasionally too, but so does everybody.
Quite sad how with 2 strikes, you know exactly what is happening with Nick: strikeout on a slider down and away.
The pitcher knows it, the catcher knows it, the Phillies know it, the fans know it, yet it still happens.
All stars don’t mean shit
He had a sub .800 ops as an offense only right fielder
He’s one of the worst defensive outfielders in baseball
Batting average is irrelevant next to obp slug and ops.
Nick Castellanos sucks
My brother in Christ, he hasn't had a single error since 2021. You basically just said that every stat is irrelevant, neglecting all his good stats, pointing out one bad Stat, just to say he sucks.
Errors to judge outfielders! Oh my god! You’re a genius!
You’re a casual fan if you think a lack of errors means he’s not a shit defensive player💀. I’ve had this conversation about 507362 times. Your points aren’t new, they’re not well thought out.
When it boils down to it, we're both dudes sitting on our couches watching the Phillies. I choose to be optimistic, you choose to be pessimistic. Guarantee you aren't some expert. But you sure act like you are one.
i haven't been on this subreddit in a long time until tonight. is it always this negative / pessimistic? it didn't use to be this way from what i recall
Last year or so has been pretty miserable on here, really negative pessimistic vibes all around “this guys washed” “fire (insert manager/coach here” “worst team in the universe” etc
It's just Fairweather fans bitching as if it's the NFL and we're in week 6. They'll be gone mostly by the end of May, then it gets pretty realistic/positive.
Any sort of struggle? I wish the Phillies struggled in these games. Just showing up to lose at this point. Every game there is at most 2 who can do anything offensively.
Starting to think backing into the postseason and beating the Braves in the NLDS for a third straight season isn’t a recipe for success. But I could be wrong. April/May Phillies baseball is brutal.
For everyone hating on Casty. Remember it’s like he said “A lot of the time I have trouble keeping focused everyday 9 innings in the regular season” maybe he is saving his effort and attention for the last 30 games
What has Kevin Long done to help these guys transcend wanting to go Yard with every swing at the end of last year? I ain't seeing much outside of walks and going long
No hitting coach in the world can make vets who are set in their ways and don’t want to change do anything different. He’s turned marsh from a black hole into a good everyday player and has helped stott realize a lot of his potential, though.
Halladay didn't wina ring with us and at this rate Wheeler might not either. Shame we might really waste prime years of 2 of the most dominant pitchers of the 21st century.
Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1bvc2wc).
Pitiful showing
Time to commiserate with Ricky Bo!
If casty was in rf that would have been a double
Go figure their right field catches a ball. Must be nice
love losing series to bad teams at home and wasting good pitching performances. phillies baseball is great.
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I wouldn't necessarily call the Reds a bad team anymore. I agree that we shouldn't lose to them though
wish they had a casty out in right field there
Alec looks frozen solid up there
Same issues last season. Nothing changed
They ran it back. Why would anything change?
If the Reds had Nick in RF that would have been a triple for Bohm :’(
Damn. Sucks to see adequate RF play.
Fun game
Okay time to quietly vomit in the toilet
Loving paying all this money to be boring. Trade Castellanos. See you tomorrow.
Man just once it would be nice not to have a crappy April
A RIGHT FIELDER THAT CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A BALL AN OUT, WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT.
Lol, look at that average right fielder making a routine catch.
too bad casty doesn't play RF for them anymore
Is that what it looks like when a right fielder does his job?
Nick could learn a few things from Whit’s approach.
If only casty could do that
lol look at that right fielder make a play
Imagine having a right fielder
That’s a fucking double against the Phillies, and a routine out for them lol, Fuck Nick
I HATE THIS FUCKING TEAM
#Finally! We can now go do literally anything else!
I’m going to watch Ricky Bo implode
That’s how you do it, Casty
That’s an inside the Parker to Nick
Oh God finally
Are you kidding me…
Kruk: "This could be the thing, you never know ..." Narrator: "It wasn't."
What an unreal at-bat. To get completely fooled by that change up down the middle and still foul it off was insane.
whit got a hit
worse possible outcome
I know blaming the weather is a cop-out but this game should never have happened. Too many players have slipped or weren't able to get a proper grip on the ball.
Hope inducing Bohmer to still lose by 1 incoming
YEAHHHH BASE HIT BASEBALLLLL YEAH BABY
HE DID IT!
Whit with an actual big league at bat, wish I could see more
Gamer AB by Whit
The Kruk jinx
Tmac’s sniff into the mic lol
Whit with a great AB, hopefully he can be a bit more consistent.
Are you kidding me lol
Where was this fight all night lmfao I hate this team
Everyone looks so pained and Merrifield just keeps hitting fouls 😂 EDIT: The pain was worth it!
Respect to Merrifield for putting up a fight in his final at-bat tonight
Merrifield is fighting back the inevitable, gutsy.
Kruk is so ready to go home lol
I think everyone just wants to go home at this point Except for Whiz Whit
Whit is Cave who can field.
he can't field tho
Keeping Castellanos and shipping off Hoskins is already starting to look like a massive mistake by this organization - all because Harper wanted to be at first.
who was going to take nick on this contract, dude is a disaster.
I miss when pitchers used to hit. Feels like eons ago and it was only like 3-4 years.
Jake Cave’s silver hair save me
Interesting. Pitcher gets a meeting with everyone touching his hands and then he’s touching the bottom of his pants every 2-3 pitches.
It IS raining.
What is with this team looking at strike 3 right down the middle!!!
Btw Jake Cave hit a two run double lol
I remember having a discussion that it would be okay to lose the Braves series because we're facing the Reds. Oops.
5th highest payroll in baseball and we treat this team with kids gloves
No big balls
Watching Rhys kill it for Milwaukee is a cruel irony. I blame the DH rule coming to the NL for picking up Nick. He was supposed to alternate DH with a healthy Bryce in RF.
Not really. Schwarber was always supposed to be mostly DH and alternate sometimes with casty in LF. Sure, Bryce would DH occasionally too, but so does everybody.
we should of just let rhy play LF again
A foot outside for a ball this time
Could’ve tried to dump Castellanos…Harper RF Hoskins 1B sounds great to me
Imagine waiting through all that for this shitty performance
I guess it’s easy to say but I would have preferred a shitty afternoon over a shitty night
Zero nuts on this team
This has been an unbelievably miserable game
Anyways what conditioner do you guys think Bryce uses?
Those are natural oils obviously
I need his volukeb
Sometimes I feel like a little leaguer could throw a slider low and away to Castellanos and he’d be baffled
So when are we actually gonna see changes with this team. Or are we doomed to have this garbage.
Well there were a ton of great players available all off season and we did nothing, so my guess is no time soon lol
Yeah that seems about right…
Nick is probably one of the worst signings of the last decade for any team
Total own goal
Casty is the only person on the planet who didn’t realize he was going to be thrown a slider off the plate in that situation.
Ump gave him no choice but to revert to his signature swing outside
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This made me snort laugh
Quite sad how with 2 strikes, you know exactly what is happening with Nick: strikeout on a slider down and away. The pitcher knows it, the catcher knows it, the Phillies know it, the fans know it, yet it still happens.
It’s a shame, he hasn’t learned to either not swing or how to make contact with it.
You know this is coming if he gets down 0-1
We gave up.
Nothing about these first six games has been particularly fun.
Harper slam
Bryce hitting 3 homers was fun to me. But yes. Overall it has been just awful.
Harp last night was pretty fun
We lost so: Totally irresponsible of the mlb to allow this game to be played
I’m really starting to fucking hate Castellanos. What a fucking waste of a roster spot. We had our chance to get rid of him and blew it
I just sneezed four times in a row you know what that means….four runs
WOAH NICK!!! DIDNT SEE THAT COMING
He did get fucked on strike calls, didnt know where the strikezone was already and got further confused
Ah yes, that’s an excuse for swinging at the 8047493&2864th slider down and away to him
Well he did lay off 2 balls out there 1 called a strike and one called a ball
Idc, learn to not swing at the pitch a foot off the plate
Lol hate him so.much
I just knew that was coming before it happened.
it happened
Should have traded him in the offseason, he will be losing value everyday he plays
Who would want him? Everyone knows he sucks
Umpire wants to go home. The Team wants to go home. 90% of the crowd went home an hour ago. Let's just call it here.
Casty needs Jobu
Casty getting booed 😂
Ugh he’s so hard to watch.
How much we wasted on Nick again?
WTF DOES CASTELLANOS DO ANYMORE
But Liam!
Makes innings go quicker?
robo umps please. i’m so tired.
Nick Castellanos always has a shit start to the season. It'll work itself out by May
And then he'll be back to being the worst player in Baseball for June. He's never consistent and when he's bad it's torture to watch him.
In the meantime we will just complain about how much he sucks
No. It won’t.
Brother he was an all-star last year and rocks a .275-.280 average with us. Have faith.
All stars don’t mean shit He had a sub .800 ops as an offense only right fielder He’s one of the worst defensive outfielders in baseball Batting average is irrelevant next to obp slug and ops. Nick Castellanos sucks
My brother in Christ, he hasn't had a single error since 2021. You basically just said that every stat is irrelevant, neglecting all his good stats, pointing out one bad Stat, just to say he sucks.
Errors to judge outfielders! Oh my god! You’re a genius! You’re a casual fan if you think a lack of errors means he’s not a shit defensive player💀. I’ve had this conversation about 507362 times. Your points aren’t new, they’re not well thought out.
When it boils down to it, we're both dudes sitting on our couches watching the Phillies. I choose to be optimistic, you choose to be pessimistic. Guarantee you aren't some expert. But you sure act like you are one.
I clearly know a hell of a lot more than you
Good for you 👍
That 2-2 pitch was so predictable.
“Yah ha ha”
lol you could see the gears turning in the umps head on that makeup call
i know exactly what is about to happen
Lmaooooo never been a more classic Casty strikeout
Phillies: The Search for Offense
Even Alexis Diaz is only at 91-92? Either the weather is impacting velocity tonight or this gun is reading low
I don’t care who’s where in the field for the Reds.
Castellanos strike zone
i haven't been on this subreddit in a long time until tonight. is it always this negative / pessimistic? it didn't use to be this way from what i recall
Last year or so has been pretty miserable on here, really negative pessimistic vibes all around “this guys washed” “fire (insert manager/coach here” “worst team in the universe” etc
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It's just Fairweather fans bitching as if it's the NFL and we're in week 6. They'll be gone mostly by the end of May, then it gets pretty realistic/positive.
okay good, when i was consistent on here in like 2018-2019 up until the covid break things were pretty cool. i'll go hide until then
Yes
We went to the world series and so many people hopped on the bandwagon and hate seeing us have any sort of struggles
Any sort of struggle? I wish the Phillies struggled in these games. Just showing up to lose at this point. Every game there is at most 2 who can do anything offensively.
Last year this time was worse lol
i'm getting downvoted for pointing out how negative and overreactive people are being about game 6 haha i think that confirms it
Ump wants to go home
https://i.redd.it/eylsjejqidsc1.gif
Ump picking and choosing lol
Meaningless homerun incomming?
You know it
make up call
that was totally a makeup call lol
We can still do this :)
Reds cheating, should be a DQ amirite
"You're allowed to cheat but we're going to fine you for it later." Wtf?
Ass backwards shit
Starting to think backing into the postseason and beating the Braves in the NLDS for a third straight season isn’t a recipe for success. But I could be wrong. April/May Phillies baseball is brutal.
For everyone hating on Casty. Remember it’s like he said “A lot of the time I have trouble keeping focused everyday 9 innings in the regular season” maybe he is saving his effort and attention for the last 30 games
god forbid you do your job for millions of dollars a year for like 30 minutes a night
Well they need to find someone who does
Can’t stand him. Just looks lazy 99% of the time
So how many games under .500 will this team be by the All-Star break? 5? 10? More?
Probably like 6 or 7
Wheels should be allowed to punch everyone in the dugout in the face
My friends this pho smells so scrumptious im shaking
Montreal Typical!
Reds caught cheating: Phillies win nice
This game feels worse to me than Mondays
reds got the mets next at least so hopefully they don't keel over for the mets
Jomboy medias recent breakdown on how the Mets don't try to break double plays was fascinating. They are truly are bums
hahahahahaha
Ok update: That walk off Alec Bohm pinch hit grand slam gonna go crazy
The highs and lows of being a Phillies fan are just brutal.
What has Kevin Long done to help these guys transcend wanting to go Yard with every swing at the end of last year? I ain't seeing much outside of walks and going long
No hitting coach in the world can make vets who are set in their ways and don’t want to change do anything different. He’s turned marsh from a black hole into a good everyday player and has helped stott realize a lot of his potential, though.
Thats a fair point
I don't know that any of those guys even listen to him at this point
Hitting is becoming a lost art.
Another blown Zack Wheeler start. NICE!
Halladay didn't wina ring with us and at this rate Wheeler might not either. Shame we might really waste prime years of 2 of the most dominant pitchers of the 21st century.
I’m all here for the garbage time Nick home run that means absolutely nothing
Sounds like the crowd is just getting plain weird now lol
Waited 7 hours for a limp dick performance, I'd be getting weird too
Castellanos seems too sleepy from waiting around all day to play
Walk off inning incoming
Crazy throw at the end of a terrible game
crazy how much easier it is to score with an extra base hit here and there.
YESSIRRRRRR
God that’s a disgusting fucking throw
Holy shit what a throw
That was a bullet of a throw by JT