PHILLIES NEWS

So far in the month of August Cole Hamels had been unhittable with a 1.33 ERA and opponents batting just .187 against him. Today he wasn't so good allowing 9 runs on 9 hits in 2, that's right just 2 innings of work. Yes, the phils bullpen did keep the Cubs to just 2 runs the rest of the way, but the damage had already been done. Oddly enough the Phils actually led early 1-0 following the top of the 1st inning, but they would never lead again. Hamels allowed 4 runs in bottom of the inning, then after a scoreless 2nd inning, he allowed 5 more runs and failed to retire a batter in the 3rd inning. Thus, the Phils had to piece together 7 innings out of their bullpen, and like I said they did but it didn't matter. While the Phils were piecing together innings with their Bullpen, Carlos Zambrano was dominating for the Cubs pitching 7 solid innings, giving up just 2 runs on 6 hits, and striking out 7. Basically, the phils offense could only fire blanks all day long, and if you haven't guessed by now the Phils lost 11-2. Yeah so the phils had a bad day, but so what, no matter what happens with the Reds (currently they are tied with Giants at 3 in the top of the 7th inning, I will have an update later) tonight, the Phils will still be at least within 2.5 games of them. So if you are ticked off by this loss and are looking for someone to blame, just blame it on Wrigley, because today was just one of those days with the wind blowing out, where everything the Cubs hit went out (they hit 4 homers today, I know I forgot to mention it earlier). Also whatever you do, don't blame Hamels, because he's a young pitcher , he's going to have days like this, and the best thing for you and him to do is to just forget about it and move on. Well, happy trails everyone.