FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
KLMNO BASEBALL
Phillies vs.Reds
GAME 1 Oct. 6
at Phillies 4 Halladay (W, 1-0)
Reds 0 Volquez (L, 0-1)
GAME 2 Today, 6
Reds Arroyo (17-10, 3.88)
at Phillies Oswalt (13-13, 2.76)
GAME 3 Sunday, 7
Phillies Hamels (12-11, 3.06)
at Reds Cueto (12-7, 3.64)
*if necessary (all games on TBS except Sunday on TNT)
GAME 4* Monday, 5
Phillies Halladay (1-0)
at Reds Volquez
(0-1)
GAME 5* Wednesday, 6
Reds Arroyo (17-10, 3.88)
at Phillies Oswalt (13-13, 2.76)
GAME 1 Yesterday, late
Braves Lowe (16-12, 4.00)
at Giants Lincecum (16-10, 3.43)
EZ SU
D5 Giants vs.Braves
GAME 2 Today, 9:30
Braves Hanson (10-11, 3.33)
at Giants Cain
(13-11, 3.14)
GAME 3 Sunday, 4:30
Giants Sanchez (13-9, 3.07)
at Braves Hudson (17-9, 2.83)
Game 4* Monday, 8:30
Giants Bumgarner
(7-6, 3.00)
at Braves Beachy (0-2, 3.00)
GAME 5* Wed., 9:30
Braves Lowe (16-12, 4.00)
at Giants Lincecum (16-10, 3.43)
CHRIS TROTMAN/GETTY IMAGES Aday after pitching the second no-hitter in postseason history, RoyHalladay turned down a bevy of interviewrequests from national programs and outlets.He said he had a children’s birthday party to attend. Halladay, Phillies look ahead, not behind NL Central champion Cincinnati tries to treat Game 1 no-hitter as just ‘a loss’
BY DAVE SHEININ IN PHILADELPHIA
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tudy Roy Halladay’s 2010 season statistics,andthere is no shortage of impressive
numbers. Twenty-one wins. A 2.44 earned run average. Two hundred fifty and two-thirds in- nings pitched. The Philadelphia Phillies ace almost certainly will win the National League Cy Young Award next month. He is, almost without question, the best pitcher — and after Wednesday night, the most famous — in the known universe. But one number stands out
from the others: Ten. That is the number of times Halladay was beaten this season. It almost de- fies logic: The same pitcher who gained immortality Wednesday night as the second pitcher in major league history to throw a postseason no-hitter was beaten as many times this year as Javier
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Giants send Zito to sideline San Francisco starter
and highest-paid player left off playoff roster
ASSOCIATED PRESS The San Francisco Giants are
sending $126 million to the side- line.
Struggling left-hander Barry
Zito was left off the team’s playoff roster Thursday for its best-of- fiveNLdivision series against the wild-card Atlanta Braves. Zito is making a team-high $18.5 million this year. Manager Bruce Bochy told Zito
on Wednesday he will not start, and Zito said he didn’t know if he would be in the bullpen. The team announced the 25-man ros- ter Thursday morning, and Zito wasn’t among the 11 pitchers. “Barry’s such a good teammate
and he’s a standup guy,” Bochy said before Thursday night’s Game 1. “We explained our situa- tion and our starting situation. I think it’s fair to say the other four are throwing a little bit better right now.We weren’t going to go with five starters. Believe me, it’s tough when you have a guy who’s a big reason why you’re here.” Also left off was right fielder
Jose Guillen, who batted .266 with three homers and 15 RBI in 42 games for San Francisco but has been dealing with neck is-
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against the San Francisco Giants in the best-of-five NL Division Series. The Braves said Hanson was
taken to the training room and was scheduled to be further ex- amined by a doctor sometime Thursday night as a precaution. l RAYS: Tampa Bay removed
designated hitter-outfielder Roc- co Baldelli from its playoff roster and added Willy Aybar. The move was announced be-
fore theRays’ 6-0 loss to theTexas Rangers in Game 2 of their first- round series. Baldelli went 0 for 3 with two
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Barry Zito is making $18.5 million this season but was not good enough to be part of the Giants’ postseason rotation.
sues. The Giants acquired him from Kansas City in August and he made 38 starts in right field. “Really it came down to he
wasn’t quite 100 percent,” Bochy said. “It’s tough for a player when they’re trying to play and they’re not quite 100 percent as far as health.” l BRAVES: Game 2 probable
starter Tommy Hanson left bat- ting practice Thursday night af- ter he hit a foul ball that bounced off the plate and hit him in the area of his right eye. The team said initial reports
from the clubhouse were that he was fine and still scheduled to make his start Friday night
strikeouts against Cliff Lee in Game 1. His career has been derailed by a string of injuries and a condition that causes mus- cle fatigue. “Not being able to play base-
ball has been one of the toughest things I’ve had to deal with for probably the last five years ofmy life,” said Baldelli, who missed all of 2005, as well as most of the 2008 and 2009 seasons because of a variety of injuries that kept him off the field. “It’s what I love to do, and it’s a difficult thing dealing with it.” Manager Joe Maddon said
“cramping . . . the same things that’s bothered him to this point” surfaced again during Wednes- day’s 5-1 loss to the Rangers. The Rays announced the 29-year-old was removed because of “left leg fatigue,” which is a symptom of mitichondrial disorder.
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Vazquez,Ryan Rowland-Smith or Jeff Karstens. In one sense, this is a function
of the relative meaninglessness of wins and losses for an individual pitcher, whose fortunes are tied to such outside-his-control influ- ences as run support, defense and bullpen performance. But in another sense, those 10
losses speak to the ephemeral nature of pitching, even for someone as immensely talented as Halladay. And it is about the only thing the Cincinnati Reds can cling to for hope as they face a 1-0 deficit in the NL Division Series, with Game 2 set for Friday night at Citizens Bank Park. “He pitched one of the best
games of his life, and he did something really, really special,” said Reds right fielder Jay Bruce, whose fifth-inning walk offHalla- day onWednesday night prevent- ed a perfect game. “I’mnot taking anything away from Roy, because he is probably the best pitcher in
“No one can throw a no-hitter every night. But in his mind, I think he thinks he can.” —Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins
the game. Butwehave to look at it as [just] a loss.We can come back [Friday] and tie the series.” On the day after Halladay
made history, everybody wanted a piece of the quiet right-hander, but fewgot one.DavidLetterman, for one, did not. The late-night television host was turned down, as were CNN, Fox News and the “CBS EarlyShow.” At the stadium, where he was the first Phillie to arrive Thursday morning for their 1 p.m. workout, he declined to speak afterward to a media pack that was shadowing him all day, saying he had a children’s birthday party to attend. “Same old Roy,”ManagerChar-
lie Manuel said. “I said, ‘Hello, Roy.’ He said, ‘Hello, Charlie,’ and grinned and went on about his business.” It was left to others to describe,
with the benefit of a night to sleep on it, the impact of Halladay’s historic performance, and to put into words the effect he has had on the entire time since arriving last December in a blockbuster trade. “He's the type of guy that works
harder than everybody.His stuff ’s better than everybody. He com- petes harder than everybody,” said Phillies right fielder Jayson Werth. “He's just that guy. He's that one guy that you may or may
not have a chance to meet in your life.”
“No one can throw a no-hitter
every night,” shortstop Jimmy Rollins said. “But in his mind, I think he thinks he can.” Asked if the Phillies needed to
be worried about a hangover ef- fect from Halladay’s gem, center fielder Shane Victorino looked incredulous and said, “What hangover? I didn’t do any drink- ing last night.” The Reds, on the other hand,
are left to hope they get a chance to face Halladay again in Game 4 — by winning at least one of the next two — and hope he is not quite so unhittable.Those 10 loss- es Halladay suffered this season, and a whole lot of additional evidence,wouldsuggest the latter is not out of the question.Evenfor a pitcher such as Halladay, sus- taining greatness is difficult. After Halladay threw a perfect
game at Florida on May 29, he proceeded to go 2-4 in June,
allowing54hits in44innings that month. One of his starts that month, in fact, was against the Reds — who battered him for 13 hits in a 4-3 Cincinnati victory. “The Phillies are a tremendous
team,” Bruce said. “Theydoevery- thing well. They create runs. The pitching is top of the line. But we’re good too.We led the league in hitting, and we’re a good team, or else we wouldn’t be here.” Just to get another shot at
Halladay, the Reds have to get past two pitchers who have owned them in recent years: right-hander Roy Oswalt, who is 23-3 with a 2.81 ERA lifetime against Cincinnati, and lefty Cole Hamels, who is 6-0 with a 1.07 ERA versus the Reds. But the Reds are not conced-
ing, and the Phillies are not cele- brating anything yet.This is base- ball, and not even a no-hitter can change the course ofanything but that one game.
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