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Road To 10,000 Losses: Same As It Ever Was
Road to 10,000 Losses is a countdown to the Phillies’ 10,000th loss, coming sometime later this year. With a 2-1 loss to the Reds Friday night and wins on Saturday and Sunday, the Phillies stand at 9966 losses, only 34 away from 10,000. You could see it coming. With the bats silent for yet another night, the Phillies took advantage of two errors on one play earlier in the game and led the Cincinnati Reds going into the bottom of the ninth inning, 1-0. With the Phillies one out away from their first two-game winning streak of the season… well, you know how this one always goes. The Phils’ closer, Tom Gordon, gave up a solo homer on a 3-1 count in the bottom of the ninth, then surrendered a bases-loaded single to give the Reds the win in the 10th again. The Phillies are now 0-4 in extra-inning games. The Phillies rallied to win the next two games over the Reds, and now have won a modest 3 out of 4. They’re now 6-11, which looks a hell of a lot better than 2-8, even though it only means they’ve gone 4-3 in their last seven. Only 34 to go. I don’t know how they’ll lose ‘em, but I expect they’ll find a way to infuriate me and the rest of Philadelphia. |
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Maybe you mentioned this earlier, but does the 10,000 count playoff losses?
Shouldn’t it be 33 to go? They started with 9956 losses this season; they have 11 this year, so they’re at 9967 now.
Alex: They actually started with 9955. I’m not quite sure what the discrepancy was/is, but people on the SABR listserv looked it up and I based my total off of that research. I’m nearly 99.99% (I guess that’d be 99.98%) sure of my total, though.
Just got my Moe Wampum ‘PHILLY IS FOR LOSERS’ t-shirt to celebrate the big day!
http://moeschwag.com/pisforlot.html
If SABR says it’s so, I’ll go with them. The Phillies’ year-by-year history on their website added up to 9956, but knowing the Phils, they screwed that up.