Saturday, July 14, 2007

might they never lose again?

Chase Utley had four of Philadelphia's season-high 23 hits Friday as the Phils pummeled the Cards.
Utley hit his 16th homer and wound up driving in three runs as Philly again avoided becoming the first team in professional sports history to reach 10,000 losses. Utley is batting .331 with 66 runs and 71 RBI. Greg Dobbs also had four hits and scored once, while Jimmy Rollins was 3-for-4 with two runs and three RBI as the Phils came within four hits of matching the franchise record.

10 comments:

k-mad said...

Smiff: drinking? Shocking.

Fungster said...

You're gonna beat the cubs to that? This can't be right. Corms, check the numbers again.

Smiff said...

As a matter of fact...i was.

Smiff said...

And yes, the Phillies have lost more games than the Cubs. More games than any team, anywhere, anytime.

Smiff said...

Phillies win again today. I'm tellin' ya, they're never losing again.

Fungster said...

Apparently the secret is to get to 9999 losses, and since the odometer only has 4 digits, you can't lose again...

Corms said...

Yes, the Phills have lost more than the Cubbies, despite the Cubbies having played more games. See Fung, at one time, for about 70 years, the Cubs were one of the elite teams in baseball.

Smiff said...

A fitting loss for 10,000: a 10-2 drubbing and SIX homeruns allowed. That's how they used to lose 'em from 1918-1948 when they had ONE winning season (and that was 78-76).

Cubs actually have a winning record (9947-9425). Only the Giants and Cardinals have more wins...

Fungster said...

How can you be elite if you haven't won it all in 98 years?

Commiserations to Smiff, it's over now. You can move on.

Corms said...

Well they did appear in 10 of the first 42 World Series.