PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils just continued their playoff push today with their 4th win in a row and 7th out of their last 8. Jon Lieber went 7 solid innings, allowing just 2 runs on 7 hits, while striking out 6. Offensively the Phils jumped out early with 4 runs in the 1st 3 innings, to take a 4-0 lead. The Marlins fought back to cut the lead to 4-2 in the top of the 6th inning, but the Phils just kept at them, taking a 6-2 lead in the bottom of the inning, as Jimmy Rollins hit his 23rd homer of the year. The Marlins fought back again to cut the lead to 6-4 in the top of the 8th inning, but the Phils again answered with 2 in the bottom of the inning to take an 8-4 lead into the 9th. There, Flash Gordon, nearly coughed up the lead, allowing consecutive homers to start inning, but he bared down and secured a big 8-6 win for the Phils. In all, this was a total team effort for the Phils, as Carlos Ruiz and Jeff Conine, both knocked in 3 runs and Chase Utley and Shane Victorino both had 4 hits and 3 runs scored. Any way you look at it this was a good day for the Phils. Anyway, well I was going to say with the win the Phils moved back into a tie with the Dodgers for the wildcard lead, but as I was writing this the Dodgers finished their game and they lost! Yes, that's right that means that the Phils are now all alone in 1st place in the wildcard race 0.5 games up on the Dodgers. YEAAAAAAAHHHH! oh sorry I got carried away there. Well, happy trails everyone.