Stat Worthy: 2008 & 2009 in NLCS for Phillies

Stats are fun to go back to after a series and see who did what, it doesn't always tell the whole story but it's those stats that make some players legends:


NLCS 2008 Batting sorted by BA with a min. 12 AB's

	Playoff Series Stats
	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA ▾	OBP	SLG
Chase Utley	5	17	4	6	1	3	6	5	.353	.522	.647
Pat Burrell	5	18	1	6	1	3	1	7	.333	.368	.500
Carlos Ruiz	5	16	3	5	0	1	1	0	.313	.353	.375
Ryan Howard	5	20	4	6	0	2	3	2	.300	.391	.350
Shane Victorino	5	18	2	4	1	6	2	1	.222	.300	.500
Jayson Werth	5	21	2	4	0	0	1	7	.190	.227	.238
Pedro Feliz	5	13	0	2	0	1	1	2	.154	.214	.154
Jimmy Rollins	5	21	4	3	1	1	2	8	.143	.217	.286
Totals	78	169	25	45	5	22	19	37	.266	.340	.402

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Generated 10/23/2009.

Now lets look at the NLCS 2009 again vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers:


NLCS Batting 2009 sorted by BA with min 12 AB:

	Playoff Series Stats
	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA ▾	OBP	SLG
Carlos Ruiz	5	13	4	5	1	4	5	0	.385	.579	.692
Shane Victorino	5	19	4	7	2	6	2	2	.368	.478	.842
Ryan Howard	5	15	5	5	2	8	6	4	.333	.524	.933
Jimmy Rollins	5	22	5	5	0	3	0	3	.227	.292	.318
Jayson Werth	5	18	5	4	3	6	2	7	.222	.300	.722
Chase Utley	5	19	3	4	0	1	4	4	.211	.348	.211
Raul Ibanez	5	18	4	3	1	4	1	6	.167	.211	.389
Pedro Feliz	5	17	3	2	1	2	1	4	.118	.167	.412
Totals	77	156	35	36	10	34	23	33	.231	.348	.500

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Generated 10/23/2009.

And now some pitching stats to look over, first the pitching from the 2008 NLCS sorted by IP:

			Playoff Series Stats
	G	GS	ERA	W	L	SV	IP ▾	H	ER	BB	SO
Cole Hamels	2	2	1.93	2	0	0	14.0	11	3	5	13
Ryan Madson	4	0	0.00	1	0	0	5.0	4	0	1	4
Brett Myers	1	1	9.00	1	0	0	5.0	6	5	4	6
Joe Blanton	1	1	5.40	0	0	0	5.0	7	3	4	4
Brad Lidge	4	0	0.00	0	0	3	4.1	2	0	2	6
J.A. Happ	1	0	3.00	0	0	0	3.0	4	1	2	2
J.C. Romero	3	0	0.00	0	0	0	2.1	0	0	3	3
Chad Durbin	3	0	4.50	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	2	2
Scott Eyre	2	0	0.00	0	0	0	1.1	0	0	1	0
Jamie Moyer	1	1	40.50	0	1	0	1.1	6	6	0	2
Clay Condrey	1	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	1	0
Totals	23	5	3.89	4	1	3	44.0	43	19	25	42

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Generated 10/23/2009.

And now here is the NLCS 2009 pitching stats for the Phillies sorted by IP:

			Playoff Series Stats
	G	GS	ERA	W	L	SV	IP ▾	H	ER	BB	SO
Cole Hamels	2	2	6.52	1	0	0	9.2	13	7	2	7
Cliff Lee	1	1	0.00	1	0	0	8.0	3	0	0	10
Pedro Martinez	1	1	0.00	0	0	0	7.0	2	0	0	3
Joe Blanton	1	1	4.50	0	0	0	6.0	6	3	2	2
Ryan Madson	4	0	5.40	0	0	0	3.1	6	2	3	4
Chan Ho Park	4	0	8.10	0	1	0	3.1	4	3	1	3
Chad Durbin	4	0	0.00	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	1
Brad Lidge	3	0	0.00	1	0	1	2.2	1	0	1	3
J.A. Happ	3	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	3	0
Scott Eyre	2	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.1	2	0	0	0
Antonio Bastardo	1	0		0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0
Totals	26	5	3.07	4	1	1	44.0	38	15	12	33

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Generated 10/23/2009.

What a difference a year makes, and the Phillies are advancing to the World Series again for the second year, here's some stats from last year's World Series with the Phillies, who will be this year's stars?


Phillies Batting stats in the World Series 2008 sorted by BA and min of 12 AB's:

	Playoff Series Stats
	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA ▾	OBP	SLG
Jayson Werth	5	18	4	8	1	3	6	4	.444	.583	.778
Carlos Ruiz	5	16	2	6	1	3	4	0	.375	.500	.688
Pedro Feliz	5	18	0	6	0	2	1	3	.333	.368	.333
Ryan Howard	5	21	3	6	3	6	3	9	.286	.375	.762
Shane Victorino	5	20	1	5	0	2	1	3	.250	.286	.250
Jimmy Rollins	5	22	4	5	0	0	1	3	.227	.261	.318
Chase Utley	5	18	5	3	2	4	5	5	.167	.375	.500
Pat Burrell	5	14	0	1	0	1	5	5	.071	.316	.143
Totals	65	168	24	44	9	23	27	38	.262	.371	.482

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Generated 10/23/2009.

And now the Pitching stats from the World Series 2008 for the Phillies sorted by IP:

			Playoff Series Stats
	G	GS	ERA	W	L	SV	IP ▾	H	ER	BB	SO
Cole Hamels	2	2	2.77	1	0	0	13.0	10	4	3	8
Brett Myers	1	1	3.86	0	1	0	7.0	7	3	3	2
Jamie Moyer	1	1	4.26	0	0	0	6.1	5	3	1	5
Joe Blanton	1	1	3.00	1	0	0	6.0	4	2	2	7
J.C. Romero	4	0	0.00	2	0	0	4.2	2	0	0	4
Ryan Madson	4	0	4.91	0	0	0	3.2	3	2	0	6
Brad Lidge	2	0	0.00	0	0	2	2.0	1	0	0	3
Chad Durbin	2	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	1	0
Scott Eyre	2	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	1
Totals	19	5	2.86	4	1	2	44.0	33	14	10	36

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Generated 10/23/2009.

2008 NLCS MVP: Cole Hamels
2009 NLCS MVP: Ryan Howard

2008 World Series MVP: Cole Hamels