You never know where you’ll be when randomness strikes. But you know when: Thursday. And today’s use of the random feature on Baseball-Reference.com jumps us from the 1910 Red Sox (which The Common Man wrote about here) all the way to Sunday, April 25, 2010, to the boxscore of a Phillies/Diamondbacks clash, which Arizona won 8-6.
The Phillies have had a tough year, beset by injuries to their stars. Jimmy Rollins has spent more than a month on the DL in two separate stints. Chase Utley was out for more than a month and a half. Shane Victorino has been on the DL this year. Ryan Howard too. Placido Polanco missed three weeks. But they’ve finally busted through and are back in 1st place in the NL East by .5 games. Given their setbacks this year, that’s a tremendous achievment, and deserves to be acknowledged.That said, they could be 1.5 up.
