The Phillies Wild Ride Comes To A Disappointing Conclusion

A wild seven-month ride came to a dispiriting conclusion in the Bronx Wednesday night for the Phillies, who were unable to repeat as World Series champions. The Good Phight tries to make sense of the disappointment.

If they had to go down, this wasn’t the way you’d draw it up: done in by myriad self-inflicted wounds including a subpar Pedro Martinez start, bad at-bats against a less than overpowering Andy Pettitte, the painfully baffling move to bring in Chad Durbin with the game still within reach at 4-1 in the fifth inning, and a near-total inability to retireHideki Matsui, who celebrated his return to the lineup with the DH back in play by driving in six runs in his first three at-bats. Matsui started the scoring with a two-run homer in the second inning off Pedro, who battled as always but just didn’t have his good stuff in his last and biggest start of the season.

Phillie fans are over at The Good Phight working through the loss. Stop by and share in the misery.