The Dirty Inning

There was not an out to be had in the sixth inning of a Phillies-Giants match-up in September 1925, when Billy Southworth, High Pockets Kelly, Irish Meusel, and the perfectly named Giants hung 24 runs on Kaiser Wilhelm and his futile Phillies.

In this Valentine’s Day episode of TDI, Justin and Trevor take a look at a pair of innings from the 27-inning career of former Phillies pitcher Lynn Lovenguth.

When you're a thief, it doesn't matter how you get home. On September 13, 1953, Curt Simmons and the Phillies watched in horror as Stan Musial did what he did best: find a weakness and exploit it. Justin and Trevor tell the story of that unimportant and largely terrible day.

It’s time to party like it’s 1964, which of course means it is time to sit quietly in a room, crushed by the failures of the past. Join Justin and Trevor as they recollect one of our city's most terrible moments. Yay!

Tim Worrell was a relief pitcher. But in April 2004, he got to take a swing. Let Justin and Trevor tell you the story of that swing and the terrifically poor inning of baseball that preceded it.

Justin and Trevor have, after weeks of a hiatus, reopened The Dirty Inning files to both look back on the filthiest inning we could find on Gabe Kapler and to celebrate one of the finest innings in Phillies history, authored by the immortal hand of Roy Halladay.

Life in the mid-2000's was riddled with crop tops and full genome sequencing. Somewhere in between, Jon Lieber and the Phillies fit in a horrid frame against a mostly forgettable Rockies squad.

Sex! Cocaine! Phones! September 21, 1985 was an intersection of some of baseball’s most historic staples. Join Justin and Trevor as they encapsulate not only what the slightly terrible ‘85 Phils were about, but the story of the 1980s in America through a doomed appearance by Phillies pitcher Kevin Gross.

October 1, 1978. The playoffs were only a few harvest moons away. Their post season berth secured, the Phillies didn’t have much to play for against the Pirates. Except for their dignity.

I think we all know where this is going.

The Phillies lived in fear of two things in 1994: Labor disputes and their new weekday day game alternate blue hats.