I’m not claiming that the Phillies struck a lot. You assume too much and infer things that are not in what I said. I was referring to the fact that putting a ball in play is better than a K in general with guys in scoring position, it so happens he hit that particular one that Huff couldn’t handle. Check who the LOB in the box score. The core guys didn’t do their job.

You want to downplay Dom’s hit fine, but then I can say that if the line-drive hadn’t sliced or if it had been a regular fly ball that he caught you wouldn’t have said anything about Dom, in fact you would have complained about how he was the only one who did anything offensively last night. In this particular game Brown was neutral: gave one up, got one back. Fact is he GOT the RBI.

Now if you want to critique him in general he is deserving of that, but I still maintain that biceps saying HE lost the game is way off base, at best the game is tied and maybe Madson or some other reliever gives up a HR in extras. You can’t KNOW what the end result would have been without that error.

The only reason I’m bringing this up is that you’re poo-pooing his single and RBI when the rest of the Phillies line-up came up with squat.

What about Ruiz hitting into a DP? What about no extra base hits from the line-up? All I’m saying is there is plenty of blame to go around. Trying to pin the outcome of the game on Brown’s play in RF is over the top. He gave a run away and got one back, maybe we end up losing 1-0 instead of 2-1.

I, like you, am not ready to totally give up on Brown. But, someone needs to work with this kid and his fielding. I said it the other day. 2 hrs minimum per day he should be in the outfield working on his fielding with Juan Samuel. Everyday.

If they hold onto Brown and don’t deal him, he must be sent down to play winter ball and start next year in the minors until he learns how to field. He is unacceptable as a defensive right fielder.