PHILLIES NEWS

Another big win for the Phils tonight, due to good starting pitching, and timely hitting. Brett Myers went the distance for the Phils allowing just 2 runs on 6 hits, while striking out a career best 12. Although it took them awhile to get going, as the Phils went scoreless for the 1st 3 innings and actually fell behind 1-0 after the top of the 4th, once the Phils offense got going it never stopped. They answered Cubs 1st run with 2 in the bottom of the inning, then tacked on an extra run almost every inning afterward, with 1 in the 5th inning, 2 in the 6th inning on a homer by Chase Utley(his career high 29th), and 1 more in the 7th inning on a homer by Pat Burrell. By the time the Cubs finally scored another run in the top of the 8th inning it was already 6-1 Phils and the game was out of their reach. After allowing a hit and a walk to start the 9th inning Myers induced a groundout and then struck out the side, earning his 1st complete game of the year and a huge 6-2 win for the Phils. Now at the moment, with the win the Phils have to moved to within .5 games of the Dodgers for 1st in the wildcard. Right now, the Dodgers are trailing the Pirates 2-0 in the top of the 4th inning, and if they lose the Phils will move into a tie for the wildcard, otherwise if they win the Phils will remain 1 game behind them in the wildcard. However the Padres are playing right now as well, and they are trailing the Diamondbacks 3-1 in the bottom of the 4th inning, and if they were to lose, and the Dodgers were to win, the Dodgers would move back into 1st place in the NL west and the Padres would drop to 1st in the wildcard just .5 games ahead of the Phils. Either way the worst the Phils can be at the end of the night is 1.0 game back, so I would say they are in good shape. Well, happy trails everyone.