Phillies Phloundering in 2012

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Their record is 36-46, and they are in last place in the N.L. East.

They just got pounded by the Mets last night, of whom they are 2-7 against so far this season.

Although he has an excellent strikeouts-to-walks ratio with 89 strikeouts and only 19 walks in 89.33 innings pitched so far this season, Cliff Lee is 0-5 with a 4.13 ERA.

With 80 games left to play, will the Phillies turn it around and make a run at making the post-season for the 6th consecutive season ???

Or will they meekly go into the night, and have to look forward to 2013 ???

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4th

PHILLIES

Jimmy Rollins - SS

Juan Pierre - LF

Chase Utley - 2B

Carlos Ruiz - C

Hunter Pence - RF

Shane Victorino - CF

Placido Polanco - 3B

John Mayberry - 1B

Cliff Lee - LHP (0-5, 4.13 ERA)

NEW YORK METS

Ruben Tejada - SS

Daniel Murphy - 2B

David Wright - 3B

Scott Hairston - LF

Lucas Duda - RF

Ike Davis - 1B

Andres Torres - CF

Mike Nickeas - C

Chris Young - RHP (2-1, 3.30 ERA)

They're done IMO. The Nats are too good. Halladay back might help them to .500.

o

The Phillies have gone 33-20 over their last 53 games, and are now a respectable 70-71 overall.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/2012-schedule-scores.shtml

5 games out of the wild card.

It still seems unlikely they make it but they were at one point 16 games out and 10 games out 2 weeks ago.

So in that aspect, maybe it isn't that unlikely.

It would be very tough for them to catch both the Cardinals and the Dodgers. But I applaud the Phillies for fighting their way back to almost .500.

The Phillies have gone 33-20 over their last 53 games, and are now a respectable 70-71 overall.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/2012-schedule-scores.shtml

They're now 35-20 over their last 35 games.

72-71 overall.

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=philly&page=mlb/scores/final/recap.aspx?id=34590