Game Two: Frozen Bats

Windy and cold. Yup. I love April baseball.

The Phillies left 11 men on base as they lost to the Atlanta Braves 4-0 tonight at CBP. Offensively, the Phillies slugged six hits and created a few opportunities to score. However, as Chris Wheeler pointed out in the telecast, most of those opportunities came with two outs.

In his first start of the year, Jamie Moyer fell behind right from the outset as he let up a leadoff solo homerun to Kelly Johnson in the top of the 1st. From there, Moyer allowed three more earned runs on 8 hits over five innings.

My take: Since it’s only game two, we’ll use the cold as the excuse for the lack of offensive production tonight. However, that excuse will only go so far. The fact is the Phils left 11 men on base tonight. They need to chase some of those runners home.

The Phillies will try to avoid a sweep by the Braves tomorrow in the hyped ring ceremony game.