Game 3 Final Phillies 2, Reds 0

Cole Hamels pitched a shutout, and Chase Utley hit a solo home run as the Phillies beat the Reds, 2-0, to sweep their National League division series.
Hamels allowed only five hits and struck out nine batters. Johnny Cueto pitched well for the Reds in a losing effort, allowing two runs (one earned) in five innings.
The Phillies took the lead in the first inning on a throwing error by Orlando Cabrera, which allowed Placido Polanco to score on a routine ground ball by Jason Werth. Utley hit his homer to right-center in the fifth,Apparel, increasing the lead to 2-0.
The Reds mounted a brief ninth-inning rally when Brandon Phillips lined a single to left field. But Joey Votto grounded into a double play, and Scott Rolen struck out to end the game.
The win was Hamels’s sixth career postseason victory. The Phillies will move on to the National League Championship Series for the third consecutive year.
Here’s a recap of the live blog of the game:
Bottom of the Ninth |Votto Double Play
That was not clutch by Votto. Great pitch selection by Hamels.
Bottom of the Ninth |Phillips Singles
Joey Votto at the plate with a man on first. Brad Lidge warming up …
Top of the Ninth |Reality Check
The announcers have officially gotten carried away about Aroldis Chapman’s fastball. It’s an excellent fastball. He has a fine slider too. If he masters his location and Dusty Baker doesn’t make him throw 150 pitches per game next April, he has the potential to be an ace starter. But Cole Hamels just took one of his fastballs for a pretty good ride to center. He’s not the most unhittable pitcher in history. Settle down.
Bottom of the Eighth |Reds Running out of Time.
Bottom of the Eighth:
Orlando Cabrera: first-pitch flyout to shallow left.
Ryan Hanigan: Lays off two high fastballs, then gets under what appears to be a popout. Placido Polanco and Carlos Ruiz stare at each other instead of fielding the ball, which Polanco bobbles. Hanigan then grounds out to shortstop. Phillies fans remember the Bob Boone-Pete Rose bobble in 1980: Boone juggled a foul pop, but Rose recovered it as it bounced out of Boone’s mitt. That Pete Rose was one heady player. Sigh.
Drew Stubbs strikes out to end the inning. The Reds have the heart of the order coming up in the bottom of the ninth inning. But they have had very few productive at bats in this game.
Top of the Eighth |Bray a LOOGY
Bill Bray strikes out Ryan Howard, then gives way to Nick Masset. There’s no need to buy green bananas at this point.
By the way, Bronson Arroyo stole a base against Matt Cain of the Giants on August 31st, 2008. He reached base on a fielder’s choice in that game,Cleveland Indians Hats sale, stole second, and scored on a Jeff Keppinger single. The Reds won 9-3. Just clearing out the stat file here.
Bottom of the Seventh |Missed Opportunity
Bottom of the Seventh:
Rolen battles with a few foul balls on a 1-2 count before swinging through a 90-mph fastball.
Gomes, who looks like he wants to run through a brick wall before every pitch, also fouls off a few pitches when behind in the count. He then cranks a line drive to left, but right at Ibenez. Hamels really hung a change-up out to dry, but Gomes couldn’t capitalize.
Ramon Hernandez rips a two-out double, barely legging it out. The best hit against Hamels in the game. Bronson Arroyo pinch runs. Interesting. Arroyo has one career stolen base.
Jay Bruce lines out to right. Three well-hit balls, one hit, no runs, and a change behind the plate, which will almost certainly be part of a double switch.
Bottom of the Seventh |Bailey Keeps it Close
Homer Bailey gives the Reds two strong innings. Bill Bray was warming up in the pen. Unless the score changes significantly, he’ll probably pitch to Ryan Howard to start the next inning. He may give way right away to another pitcher: Dusty Baker has four lefties in his pen and can play mix and match with everything on the line.
Commercial Thought |Girardi’s Fast Food Hook
One of the regular commercials on the television broadcast is a Taco Bell ad. The premise is that a guy cannot finish his chalupa, so Joe Girardi shows up and calls Mariano Rivera from another table to finish the meal.
Oddly, the guy doesn’t take a single bite of the chalupa. Is Rivera being called in as a starter? Is Girardi suddenly a super-quick hook? Shouldn’t the Yankees make a tread deadline deal for someone to eat the seventh and eighth bites?
Or did the guy already eat eight chalupas, with Rivera coming in for the ninth? And if that’s the case, shouldn’t the man go straight to an Overeaters Anonymous meeting?
By the way, three-up, three-down for the Reds.
Top of the Sixth |Bailey’s High Heat
Bailey blows a couple of high fast balls past Raul Ibenez. Scott Rolen bobbles a grounder, but Bailey gets Hamels to fly out to right.
The Reds are loaded with pitchers in their mid 20’s who throw in the mid 90’s. Dusty Baker has a long history of blowing out the arms of young pitchers, but there’s no way he can screw up all of these careers. One of these guys — Cueto, Bailey, Travis Wood — is going to grow into a very good starter.
Top of the Sixth |Cueto out, Bailey In
Fine five-inning outing by Cueto, but Dusty Baker pinch-hit for him in the bottom of the fifth.
Homer Bailey starts out throwing in the mid-90s, freezing Jason Werth. Rollins lines a fastball for a single. Rollins is clearly hurt; Bailey and Hernandez make no real effort to hold him.
Top of the Fourth |After Further Review, it’s Still a Homer
The Ryan Howard shift works well to end the inning.
A quick review of the Howard shift: Brandon Phillips moves from second to shallow right center. Orlando Cabrera moves just to the right of second base. Scott Rolen plays where the shortstop would normally stand. Chris Sabo comes out of retirement to play third base. Howard either hits a home run or strikes out, making the whole affair moot.
Top of the Fifth |Utley Goes Yard
On the replays, note the grown man who reaches over the little kid to catch the home run. The guy drops it. Give the kid a chance.
Here comes the review. It’s almost certainly a homer. But it gives Reds fans one more reason to hate Utley.
Bottom of the Fourth |Still 1-0 Phillies
Scott Rolen hits a one-out single through the box, his first hit — his first thing close to a hit — of the series. Rolen was a career .333 hitter against the Phillies entering the series.
The hit wakes the crowd up,Cheap Apparel, and Cole Hamels struggles with Johnny Gomes, running a 3-0 count before pulling the string on a 3-2 change-up. Gomes swung on what should have been ball four.
Utley decided to take the unassisted putout at second on a sharp grounder. He barely beat Rolen to the bag. Rolen is on a quest to be part of every controversial play in this series. He’s due to work a catcher’s interference call, or be on base during a balk, or execute a hidden ball trick.
Top of the Fourth |Reds Battling,Los Angeles Angels Hats sale, Kolb and Smith Channel Elway, Marino
Jimmy Rollins walks to lead off the inning, but he’s stranded because of a lineout, a fielder’s choice, and a flyout.
A football update for any Eagles fans reading a Phillies-Reds blog: Kevin Kolb started the game 9-for-9 with a touchdown. Alex Smith of the Niners answered by starting 5-for-5. The Eagles lead 10-7. The odds of nearly an hour passing without an incompletion from either quarterback are about equal to the odds of the Conan Blimp being attacked by a shark.
Bottom of the Third |Both Pitchers Cruising
Johnny Cueto struck out three batters in the top of the third, allowing an infield single to Ryan Howard (known around the world for his ability to beat out grounders). Cole Hamels answered by coaxing a foul pop and two flyouts from the Reds.
The middle innings have been kind to Cueto this year. He has a 5.03 ERA in the first three innings but a 2.58 ERA in innings four through six.
Top of the Third |Great Moments in Reds History
The Reds may not be in the postseason much longer. Just in case we don’t see them for a while (like, another 15 years), here’s a look back at some of the greatest moments in the history of Cincinnati baseball:
 1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first openly professional baseball club, wins 57 straight games. The team moved to Boston the next year to become the Boston Red Stockings, then the Boston Beaneaters, and eventually, really annoying.
 June, 1938: Johnny Vander Meer pitches back-to-back no hitters against the Braves and Dodgers. Vander Meer later led the league in strikeouts three times, but that was during World War II, when the opposing lineup usually consisted of a one-armed outfielder, a one-legged catcher, a second baseman in an iron lung, George Bailey,Minnesota Twins Hats sale, and two conscientious objectors who were morally against doing violence to a baseball.
 1954: The Reds change their name to the Redlegs at the height of the Communist scare. Fans wave rally towels called Shreds of Decency.
 July, 1957: Reds fans stuff the All Star ballots with the help of a local newspaper. The All Star team that year includes such luminaries as Gus Bell,Cheap NFL Hats, Wally Post, Don Hoak, and for reasons no one can determine, Pat Buchanan.
 1975-1976: Big Red Machine wins two World Series: In the 1970s,Snapback Hats, it was possible for a small-market team to assemble a lineup of Johnny Bench, Pete, Rose,Cheap Chicago White Sox Hats, Joe Morgan, and Tony Perez without having to trade each player to a contender for 19-year old sinker-ballers and Single-A shortstops. Yet you couldn’t watch the game on your phone back then. A primitive era.
 1979: Johnny Bench films paint commercial. “Hi, I’m Johnny Bench. And this is Johnny Bench’s bench.” Bench paints one half of his bench with Krylon,Pittsburgh Pirates Hats, the other with the other leading brand. How’d it turn out, Johnny? “No runs, no drips, no errors.” He was one of the best catchers in major league history. This commercial is probably how you remember him.
 May 17, 1984: Mario Soto strikes out four batters in one inning. Three of them are Bobby Bonds.
 May 18, 1986, Reds, Expos,cheap Philadelphia Phillies Hats, and Giants all win on a three-team parlay card paying 12-to-1. For more information, consult the Dowd Report.
 October 3, 2004: Barry Larkin retires. Larkin compiled 2.340 hits. a lifetime .295 batting average, 198 home runs, two Gold Gloves, 11 All Star appearances, and a World Series Ring. Small market player. Accomplishments don’t matter. Nothing to see here.
Bottom of the Second |News Flash: Reds Aren’t Hitting
The television cameras spotted some fans wearing Bengals jerseys in the crowd. They are probably pleased that Carson Palmer isn’t scheduled to start Game 4.
The television announcers also keep citing Reds batting  statistics for the series. Well, Game 1 was a no-hitter, right? Most of us get the idea that the Reds batting stats are a little light.
Chase Utley has had a terrible defensive series: two errors in Game 2, a booted grounder in this inning. Granted, Jay Bruce’s grounder was well-hit to Utley’s right. On the other hand, Utley managed to score a run on a shadow hit-by-pitch and a shadow tag of third base.
Second Inning |From Patrick Borzi at the GAP
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