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Game Date:
06/14/2016
12:35pm EST
Lines:
Philadelphia +1.5
Toronto -1.5
Total:
Over
8.5 (-103)
Under 8.5 (-107)
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All players have lapses in judgment. Moments where their brain just stops working and they do something weird, or they don't do something they should have done. Most people know them as brain farts, and they happen to everyone. Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Freddy Galvis had a particularly perplexing brain fart on Monday night, and it left everyone wondering just what was going on in his brain. The Phillies are facing the Toronto Blue Jays this week in a home-and-home interleague series, and in the bottom of the seventh inning of Monday's series opener, Jose Bautista was at the plate with Phillies reliever David Hernandez on the mound. The count was 1-2, and when Hernandez delivered his pitch, Bautista took a swing and lined it into left field. To get to left field, the ball had to travel past Freddy Galvis. Not just past him, but over him — the baseball sailed over his head before it landed in the grass. When a ball travels over the head of a fielder, most of them instinctively reach up to try and get it. We see that with pitchers all the time. And that's what Galvis did. Sort of. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now ] Galvis reached up with both hands to get the ball. But the ball wasn't just a foot or two above Galvis' head. It was at least five feet above his head. And he reached up, but with both of his feet firmly planted on the ground, and followed the ball with his head as it sailed away. Continue to Article
June 14, 2016 11:39:am EST
All players have lapses in judgment. Moments where their brain just stops working and they do something weird, or they don't do something they should have done. Most people know them as brain farts, and they happen to everyone. Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Freddy Galvis had a particularly perplexing brain fart on Monday night, and it left everyone wondering just what was going on in his brain. The Phillies are facing the Toronto Blue Jays this week in a home-and-home interleague series, and in the bottom of the seventh inning of Monday's series opener, Jose Bautista was at the plate with Phillies reliever David Hernandez on the mound. The count was 1-2, and when Hernandez delivered his pitch, Bautista took a swing and lined it into left field. To get to left field, the ball had to travel past Freddy Galvis. Not just past him, but over him — the baseball sailed over his head before it landed in the grass. When a ball travels over the head of a fielder, most of them instinctively reach up to try and get it. We see that with pitchers all the time. And that's what Galvis did. Sort of. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now ] Galvis reached up with both hands to get the ball. But the ball wasn't just a foot or two above Galvis' head. It was at least five feet above his head. And he reached up, but with both of his feet firmly planted on the ground, and followed the ball with his head as it sailed away. Continue to Article
June 14, 2016 11:39:am EST
Strong pitching and a little bit of power gave the Philadelphia Phillies something rare this season: a comfortable win on the road. Ryan Howard and Odubel Herrera homered, Jerad Eickhoff pitched six spotless innings to win consecutive starts for the first time this season, and Philadelphia snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 Monday night. The Phillies snapped a six-game road skid and matched their biggest margin of victory anywhere this year. Continue to Article
June 13, 2016 11:18:pm EST
TORONTO (AP) -- Ryan Howard and Odubel Herrera homered, Jerad Eickhoff pitched six spotless innings to win consecutive starts for the first time this season, and the Philadelphia Phillies snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 Monday night. Continue to Article
June 13, 2016 10:40:pm EST
Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista is back in the lineup at designated hitter for Monday's game against Philadelphia after missing the previous three because of a sore right thigh. Bautista left in the sixth inning against Baltimore on Thursday after reaching base in his first four plate appearances. Edwin Encarnacion, who homered three times in six plate appearances on Friday and Saturday, is not in the lineup Monday. Continue to Article
June 13, 2016 6:40:pm EST
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