Roy Halladay Leaves Phils Due To Family Matter
Roy Halladay Leaves Phils Due To Family Matter, Roy Halladay has been a model of consistency on the mound over the last decade. So when baseball fans scanned the results from Wednesday night’s games and saw the number ‘8’ in the ‘ER’ column next to Halladay’s name in the Philadelphia-Atlanta box score, many likely thought it was a typo.
Even the great ones have a rough outing every so often, and for Halladay, that came in an ugly 15-13 loss to the Braves. The 12-hit, eight-earned run effort over 5 1/3 innings was Halladay’s worst outing in five seasons, and after the game he left the team to attend to a family matter, according to the team’s PR staff.
“It was just a weird game all the way around,” said Braves catcher Brian McCann, whose fifth-inning grand slam off Halladay brought Atlanta all the way back from a 6-0 deficit. “Stuff you’ve never seen happen.”
Halladay is expected to rejoin the team when the Phillies begin a weekend series at the first-place Washington Nationals on Friday night.
The Phillies insist Halladay is healthy, and despite a modest 3-2 record, the team’s right-handed ace had looked dominant at times this spring. He brought a 1.95 ERA into Wednesday’s game and left with a 3.40 mark, but the firsts Halladay has recorded in recent weeks are not the variety that will one-day end up on his plaque in Cooperstown.
Halladay’s strikeouts per nine are down from his career average (6.2 from 6.9) and his walks are up (2.1 from 1.9). And in a 5-1 loss at San Diego late last month, he walked three straight hitters for the first time in his career.
“At times it doesn’t seem like his stuff is accelerating through the hitting zone,” pitching coach Rich Dubee said. “At times it does.” (Washington Post)
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