PHILLIES NEWS

Throughout the month of July, Brett Myers was one of the hottest pitchers in baseball, and seemed to be able to do whatever the Phillies needed him to do. He could go deep into games, he could rack up strikeouts, and he could keep teams scoreless. One thing he couldn't seem to do though, was get a win because the Phils' offense had been giving him almost no run support. Tonight However,(Wednesday), in his 1st August start, he didn't quite have his best stuff and tired early, lasting just 6 innings, but he did get the win, as the Phils' gave him all the run support he could handle, pounding out 16 runs on 18 hits. They scored 8 runs while Myers was in the game and then tacked on 8 more after he left early in the 7th, to cement an impressive 16-8 win. Jimmy Rollins started it all off with a leadoff homer, just minutes into the game. Led by David Dellucci's 2-RBI single the Phils tacked on 4 more in the 2nd inning. David Dellucci then followed himself up with a 2 run homer in the 4th inning, and Aaron Rowand followed that with a solo homer in the 5th inning. Now at this point, through 6 innings, the Phillies led 8-2 , Brett Myers had pitched 6 solid innings and it seemed that victory was assured. However, Myers began to tire in the 7th inning, and gave up 4 runs, in route to a 5-run Cardinals 7th, cutting the lead to 8-7. However, the Phillies would not allow the outcome to remain in doubt for long, scoring 5 runs in a wild 8th inning capped off by Chase Utley's streak extending infield single(34 straight now). At this point the Phils led 13-7 and seemed to have finally assured themselves a victory, but they weren't done yet, scoring 3 more runs in the top of 9th inning on a 3 run homer by Jimmy Rollins (his 2nd of the game). Now ahead 16-8 the Phillies finally let up and closed things out for the win. Interestingly enough, as the Phillies were winning tonight, the wild-card leading Reds were dropping a 5-3 loss to the Dodgers, thus the Phillies are now just 3.5 games back in the wild card, and seemingly closing fast, with 5 wins out of there last 6, pretty cool huh. Well, happy trails everyone.