The Philadelphia Phillies laid a beating on the San Diego Padres last night, as most teams do, 11-5. They will meet again tonight at Citizens Bank Park for the second game of a 3-game set. Year in and year out, it seems the San Diego Padres don’t even care about putting a quality product on the field and whenever a player shows potential, what do they do? They get rid of him. Tonight the Friars will send Luis Perdomo to the hill and how this guy is in a starting rotation in the Majors is beyond me. Perdomo is 1-4, with a 7.55 ERA, and a 2.10 WHIP in 31 innings of work. The Phillies, who are tough at home at 31-16, will send Vince Velasquez to the rubber. Velasquez is 5-8, with a 4.39 ERA, a 1.24 WHIP, and has been sharp over his last three turns, lowering his ERA to 1.93 and his WHIP to 1.00. San Diego has lost 6 in a row, 8 of their last 10, and are 4-12 in their last 16 games in Philly. Consider a play on the Phillies tonight.
TODAY’S PICK: PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES