Midnight’s Children

The Phillies came back from 3-0 1st inning deficit to beat the Braves 5-4. Kyle Kendrick had a rocky first inning allowing 3 runs and then settled down to pitch 6 innings to improve his record to 3-2. Brad Lidge pitched the 9th inning to get his 10th save of the season. He allowed his 1st earned run of the seson tonight. Jayson Werth was the offensive hero with 3 hits and 4 RBI’s. Ryan Howard had the other RBI for the Phillies and was 2-4 on the night to raise his average to .181. He did manage to strikeout his other two plate appearances. The win improved the Phillies to 22-18 and the same two teams will do it againg tomorrow night in Philadelphia.

The Phillies won in dramatic fashion again yesterday with a 9th inning rally to beat the Giants 6-5. Carlos Ruiz hit his first homer of the season in the 8th inning to tie the game and a fielding error on a  ball hit by Geoff Jenkins in the ninth scroing Ryan Howard who had walked. The Phillies took the series 2-1 and are now off on a road trip to Arizona and San Francisco this week. The Phillies maintain a 1/2 game lead in the National League East over the Mets & Marlins.

What a dramatic ending to last nights game in Philadelphia between the Phillies and Giants. After Aaron Rowand gave the Giants a 5-4 with a solo home run in the top of the 10th inning Pat Burrell hit a 3-2 fastball to dead left field with Chase Utley on first to give the Phillies the victory. The Phils had an early 4-0 lead on a pair of two run homers by Utley & Feliz but the the Giants tied it on a 3 run 7th inning. The Phillies had a couple of base runners on in the 8th but Ryan Howard struck out looking to continue his spring difficulties at the plate. The bullpen pitched well as Gordong & Lidge pitched scoreless innings and Romero who gave up the homer to Rowand got the win.

The season ended at the hands of the Colorado Rockies today with the Phillies being swept. Each game something else went wrong with the Phils. Mainly they just didn’t hit well. the big bats were silent noticeably with Chase Utley. It was a great year. Maybe next year…

The Phillies are the NL East Champs! Moyer pitched great and earned a 6-1 victory over the Nats on fan appreciation day at Citizens bank park! It looks like they will play the Colorado Rockies in the Division Series next week. We will See.

Coming off a great sweep of the Mets at home the week before the Phils sputter when they meet the Braves and Marlins going 2-4 this week. The bullpen took a beating playing a large part in every loss. This unit has to tighten it up or we can forget about the Playoffs.

Well September is the time to make a run if the Phillies are going to make one this year. It is clear that this team has a hunger. They swept the all four games from the Mets and picked up 6 victories this week. Great Job.

This week the Phiilies have won 4 out of 6 games. They save face against the Brewers taking the last game of the series late, Moyer and Lohse get wins against Florida and Hamels picks up the in on the 10th vs Atlanta. All in all it was a good week. The Phillies are now 9 games above .500.

The Philles are back on a roll this week winning 5 out of six games! They have won 7 out of their last nine overall. They beat up on San Diego, Washington and Pittsburgh this week. Durbin picked up two wins this week.

The Phils take the first 2 games after the All-Star Break behind the pitching of Kendrick and Hamels. The Beat the Cardinals back to back by scores of 13-3 and 10-4 at home. Things are looking good as the bats are alive.