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What's wrong with Cole Hamels?

June 15th, 2012 2:31 AM
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  • Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels watches as Miami Marlins third baseman Hanley Ramirez rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the fourth inning at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: Howard Smith-US PRESSWIRE

    • For the first two months of the season, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a better pitcher in all of baseball than Cole Hamels. After 9 starts, Hamels boasted a 7-1 record, a 2.17 ERA, a 1.04 WHIP, and a 9.5 K/9 rate. In the four starts since, however, Hamels has a 6.08 ERA and has failed to complete seven innings in each of his past three outings. And though he picked up the win on Wednesday as the Phillies outslugged the Twins by a score of 9-8, he gave up seven runs (six earned) in six innings and was none too pleased with his performance.

    “I definitely won’t enjoy the moment,” he said. “Maybe that’s being selfish, but it’s hard to when you’re still in last place and you don’t put good starts together. That’s quite a few in a row. They’re not good moments.”

    The Phillies’ real problem, however, is that none of their starters are performing well at the moment, and that’s serious when the strength of your team is supposed to be the rotation. Entering Thursday’s game, the Philadelphia staff had a 5.70 ERA in the previous 24 games, during which the team went just 9-15 and fell deeper into last place in the NL East.

    Everyone knew that the Phillies were going to have trouble scoring runs this season, but the pitching staff, which gave up the fewest runs of any Philaldephia staff since 1917 last season, was not supposed to be performing like this. It’s time for them to wake up, because this season will be lost before they know it.

    MINNEAPOLIS – There was no use dancing around the subject for Charlie Manuel. The manager had presided over a dominant pitching staff in 2011, and with much of the same personnel returning in 2012, he envisioned something similar.

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