Phillies Crush Cardinals 8-0 and 2-0; Move Into 2nd Behind Brewers

After six games the NL East Statis-Pro standings looked a bit off with the Milwaukee Brewers in 5th of 6 teams and the Philadelphia Phillies in 4th, both trailing the surprising St. Louis Cardinals. However, under our league rules that 5-run wins count as 3-game sweep and other series count as 2-games-to-1 wins, the Brewers received credit for a 5-1 series win in two games against the Pirates and the Phillies did the same thing to the Cardinals with 8-0 and 2-0 wins.

We track all results here. We did make a couple of updates to the Phillies on our Statis-Pro batters cards, realizing we had not listed 2nd baseman Bryson Stott in the starting line-up, and also realized two outfielders were nicely set up to platoon with Nick Castellanos hitting in the first game against a LHP and then Brandon Marsh in the second game against a righty.

The remaining series to get every team up to 8 actual games played is the Cubs and Mets home-and-home, with the winner having a chance to catch one or both. Below the first column shows the actual record of each team, then the Credit and Blame is a record based on treating each game as a 3-game series with the 5-run sweep rule.

 

East	W	L	Win%	Credit	Blame	Credit %
MIL	4	4	0.500	15	9	0.625
PHI	5	3	0.625	14	10	0.583
CHC	4	2	0.600	10	8	0.556
NYM	4	2	0.600	10	8	0.556
STL	4	4	0.500	12	12	0.500
PIT	2	6	0.250	8	16	0.333

The Phillies were able to start two PB2-8 lefties, and the first give Cardinals batters all struggle against left-handed pitching, turning 11s from hits into strikeouts against LHP for all five and Alec Burleson strikes out on 11-14 and Brendan Donovan on 11-13.

The following is the list of all players who played in the game and then appear in the scoresheet below.

Pos	Philadelphia Batters	HR	OPS	2-game notes
1b	Bryce Harper	27-32	0.892
RF	Kyle Schwarber	17-26	0.909	HR, 3 hits,3 walks, 2nd Game MVP
SS	Trea Turner	32-24	0.789	3 hits & HBP 1st game, 1st game MVP
1b	Alec Bohm	32-33	0.779
LF	Max Kepler	24-27	0.755
CF/Ben	Nick Castellanos	28-32	0.748	platoon 1st game
Ben/CF	Brandon Marsh	26-27	0.747	platoon 2nd game
C	J.T. Realmuto	27-28	0.739	3 hits
3b	Edmundo Sosa	27-28	0.735
2b	Bryson Stott	31	0.723	realized left out of line-up
PB	Phillies Pitchers	WAR	ERA	2-game notes
2'-8	Ranger Suárez	113	3.58	6 shut out innings
2'-8	Matt Strahm		3.38
4'-7	Jordan Romano		3.71
PB	Game 2	WAR	ERA	2-game notes
2'-8	Cristopher Sánchez	49	3.79	7 shut out innings
2'-8	José Alvarado		3.02	hold
2'-8	Orion Kerkering		3.2	save
Pos	St. Louis Batters	HR	OPS
CF	Lars Nootbaar	24-26	0.802	reached 3 of 4 then injured
LF	Alec Burleson	32-24	0.763
DH/RF	Brendan Donovan	34-35	0.785	4 hits
C	Iván Herrera	27	0.728	single, double 2nd game
2b	Nolan Gorman	22-26	0.755	double
3b	Nolan Arenado	28-32	0.752
1b	Luken Baker	21-24	0.721
RF	Jordan Walker	25-27	0.716	injured 1st game
SS	Masyn Winn	28	0.69
DH	Pedro Pagés	25	0.647	filled in 2nd game
CF	Michael Siani		0.571	filled in 2nd game
PB	Cardinals Pitchers	WAR	ERA	2-game notes
2'-7	Quinn Mathews		3.95	5 innings, 2 runs
4'-7	Erick Fedde	166	4.28
2'-7	Matthew Liberatore		4.13
2'-7	Kyle Leahy		4.68	0.3 innings, 4 runs
4'-7	Steven Matz		4.01
PB	Game 2	WAR	ERA	2-game notes
2'-7	Andre Pallante		3.93	6 innings, 1 run
2'-7	John King		3.56
2'-8	JoJo Romero		3.39
2'-9	Ryan Helsley		2.77