Charlie, change it back! New line-up fails to deliver

As I wrote about last night's win, I mentioned the "funky" line-up that Charlie Manuel used that managed 11 hits and 4 walks but only scored 4 runs and stranded 26 runners. That got me curious as to how the "normal" Phillies line-up would have fared. Turns out that if Manuel had kept things the same, the Phillies would have scored twice as many runs and won the game 8-0.

Here is the line-up from last night that scored 4 runs:
1. Werth, RF
2. Utley, 2B
3. Rollins, SS
4. Burrell, LF
5. Howard, DH
6. Feliz, 3B
7. Victorino, CF
8. Coste, C
9. Bruntlett, 1B

Here is the "normal" line-up:
1. Rollins, SS
2. Victorino, CF
3. Utley, 2B
4. Howard, DH
5. Burrell, LF
6. Werth, RF
7. Feliz, 3B
8. Coste, C
9. Bruntlett, 1B

It turns out that with that configuration, Utley would have knocked Victorino in three times, helping the Phillies to score more runs. The Phillies also would have strung together several hits in the 7th inning that would have led to three runs.

The lesson here for Manuel is that this line-up isn't more effective, at least for one night. It's important to keep the table setters like Rollins and Victorino at the top of the line-up so Utley can drive them in.

Here is what last night's game would have looked like:

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Rollins	Out	|	Single	Out	|
Victorino	Out	|	Walk	|	Single
Utley	Single	|	Double (2 RBI)	|	Triple (1 RBI)
Howard	Out	|	Out	|	Out
Burrell	|	Out	Single (1 RBI)	|	Out
Werth	|	Walk	Out	|	Out
Feliz	|	Out	|	Triple	|
Coste	|	Out	|	Sac-Out	|
Bruntlett	|	|	Out	Out	|
Score:	0-0	0-0	3-0	4-0	5-0

	6th	7th	8th	9th
Rollins	Out	|	Walk	|
Victorino	|	Single, Steal	Unk (OUT?)	|
Utley	|	Single (1 RBI)	Out	|
Howard	|	Out	Out	|
Burrell	|	Out	|	(Jenkins, Out)
Werth	|	Single	|	Out
Feliz	Out	Single (1 RBI)	|	Out
Coste	Single	Single (1 RBI)	|	|
Bruntlett	Out	Out	|	|
Score:	5-0	8-0	8-0	8-0