Chan Ho Park

Even before the game started we had a little action. Charlie Manuel demoted Chan Ho Park from the rotation to the bullpen and promoted JA Happ to the rotation. Happ will get his first opportunity Saturday at the on fire as of late New York Yankees.

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Sunday, which may be the pre-cursor to judgement day, brought Chan Ho Park. The Nationals did not want to suffer a four game sweep at the hands of the Phillies and came out guns blazing. They knocked Park out of the park in the second inning, scoring five runs on four walks and five hits. I never thought I'd say it, but thank god for Jack Taschner. Two and two-thirds of an inning pitched and not a single run plated. He even struck out two. He even brought his ERA down to a respectable 3.86.  After game two, Carpenter was optioned back to Lehigh Valley to stay in the rotation there. Sergio Escolona got the call for the spot in the bullpen. Good move Phillies not only did he get his first career strikeout, he was the lucky recipient of a late inning blunder by the Nats that granted him the win. You can't put the sole blame on that loss on Hernandez, the secondbaseman covering first on the sac bunt. I also put blame on Colome and Adam Dunn. Colome should have never thought about touching the ball. Zimmerman was all over it. Dunn was in right chasing butterflies, instead of backing up first base like he should have been doing. So yeah Hernandez missed it, but the pitcher shouldn't have thrown it and the right fielder should have been backing him up.

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Chan Ho Park proved me wrong in his second straight quality start going six innings, giving up 2 earned runs, striking out three and walking none in route to his first win on the season. I think that Park has one, maybe two, more starts before being pushed into the pen. His next scheduled start is Sunday against the Nationals. He will likely be opposed by rookie Jordan Zimmerman or Shairon Martis. Zimmerman, who despite a high ERA, is putting a nice rookie season together.  He is averaging almost a strike out per inning. Martis is 1-0 in 2 starts versus the Phils this season. But don't let that record fool you. Martis has an ERA of 7.15 giving up 9 runs on 13 hits, including a homer, 6 walks and 4 punchouts in 11.1 IP. Martis would most likely face a dominant LH hitting lineup giving Dobbs the start at third as lefties are hitting .447 against him.

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