PHILLIES NEWS

After an embarrassing 11-6 loss to the Cubs last tonight, the Phils really needed to bounce back and beat them tonight and you know what, they did. Jamie Moyer did what Jon Lieber couldn't last night and shutdown the Cubs, allowing just 1 run over 7 innings while scattering 6 hits. Still, even with Moyer dazzling the Cubs, the Phils needed a little luck to get the win. After going scoreless for the 1st 4 innings of the game, the Phils somehow managed a 2 out rally in the 5th inning scoring 3 runs on a double by David Dellucci, and a 2 RBI single by Abraham Nunez. The Cubs answered back with their previously mentioned 1 run, in the 6th inning cutting lead to 3-1 and temporarily putting the outcome in doubt. Fortunately Jimmy Rollins gave the Phils some insurance with a solo homer in the 8th inning to push lead to 4-1. From there the Phils bullpen, which had been roughed up last night, closed the door tonight as Flash Gordon closed it out in top of the 9th inning for his 32nd save of the year and a 4-1 Phils win. Anyway with the win the Phils at least keep pace with Padres, who currently lead the wild card(the Dodgers pulled a manning last night a came back to beat them in extra innings, thus they moved back into 1st place in the NL West, and the Padres dropped back to 1st place in the wild card). The Phils came into the night 1.5 games behind the Padres and with the win moved to within 1.0, but right now the Padres are leading the Diamondbacks 5-1 in the bottom of the 6th inning, so it looks like the Phils are going to stay at 1.0 game back of whoever is leading the wildcard race after tonight(the Dodgers are currently trailing the Pirates 2-1 in their game, and if they were to lose the Padres would jump back into 1st in the NL West, and the Dodgers would fall back to 1st in the wildcard, 1.0 up on the Phils). Well now that I got all that cleared up, happy trails everyone.