Wild 16 inning game ends in loss

Written by Mike Mariano | 25 August 2010

16 innings of madness.  The Phillies 4-2 loss last night took over 5 hours and saw all kinds of a wild things by its finish.

Ryan Howard lost his shit and was ejected in the 14th inning.

Roy Oswalt played two innings of left field: making a play on a fly ball and coming to the plate with the game on the line.

Hamels threw well (only allowing two ER) but didn't get the win, again.

The Phillies had their regular starting eight in the lineup for the first time since May 21, vs. Boston.

Jimmy Rollins hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings to begin with.

At the end of the game, the Phillies just couldn't find a way to win.  It was fitting that since Oswalt had to come into the game for Ryan Howard (because of a depleted bench) he would come to the plate in the bottom of the 16th with two on and two out.  Astros manager Brad Mills walked Utley to bring Oswalt (the winning run) to the plate.  In the end he was right and Oswalt harmlessly grounded out to end the game.

As for the Ryan Howard check-swing-strike-three-explosion, it's rare to see the big man that fired up.  You could see him saying, "don't fuckin' talk to me" and he had arms swinging and spit flying the whole time.  As you'd expect it took more than one guy to keep him from bashing the third base umps skull in.  And why wouldn't he be heated?  He went 0-7 with 5 STRIKEOUTS!  There isn't even a funny hat name for that many K's.  Three is the hat trick, four is the golden sombrero, and five is the platinum sobrero or something like that.  If I pulled off an 0-7 platinum sobrero I'd most likely pull this move.

Here are some good clubhouse quotes from the game:

“I’ve seen him mad, but never upset like that,” Manuel on Ryan Howard's ejection.

“I’m not sure what I think about the whole situation, I think I’ll take a nap, wake up refreshed and pretend the whole think didn’t happen.” Werth on the game.

“There’s a saying in baseball, the ball will find you when you’re out of position,” said Ibanez, who also recorded a putout on a diving play at first base. “The ball found him and he caught it.” on Oswalt out in left field.

“I had visions of an out,” Mills said. “I had no visions of a hit.” of Oswalt hitting in the sixteenth.