by Jonathan Fogg
Kendrick Struggles as Phils Snakebitten Again Posted by Jonathan Fogg ,
Sun, April 25, 2010 08:44 PM
No importance where you looked on Sunday, you couldn’t have liked what you saw. Even before the recreation started, something didn’t seem at once. Ross Gload and Wilson Valdez in the starting lineup? Understandably, this was not the same sort that has piled up runs the biography four years.
And after the artifice began, there were more troubling sights. Kyle Kendrick reverted back to the feeble pitcher who struggled in his first two starts of the seasonable, and the bullpen again revealed itself to be break in on on the shutdown arms needed in touch-and-go games.
The consequence was an 8-6 privation to the Diamondbacks representational of most of the Phillies’ problems this age.
After Greg Dobbs – another component of a lineup that many Phillies fans never homelessness to see again – put the Phils on top with a two-run homer in the first, Kendrick managed to get along by through four innings without thought loading the bases in the subsequent and putting two on in the fourth. But in the fifth it all caught up with him. Kelly Johnson launched a two-run homer – his fourth of the series – before Indicator Reynolds slugged a bombshell to one of the deepest parts of the garden to give the Diamondbacks a 5-3 edge.
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