PHILLIES NEWS

Coming today's 1:00 game things didn't look so good for the Phils. The Bullpen was all used up from last night's 13 inning downer, Ryan Howard was to sit out the game due to injury suffered in last night's 13 inning downer, and their record stood at only 3-10. Thus, today was about as close as you can get to a must win game at the beginning of the season. Fortunately, for the Phils Jamie Moyer was on mound for today's and he knew he had to get the Phils some innings, so he did just that. Moyer went 8 scoreless innings, striking out 5 and allowing just 2 runs on 4 hits, with both runs being scored in the 9th after he had left the game. Meanwhile, the Phils offense, struggled again, but managed to scrap enough runs to get win, as Aaron Rowand homered in the second inning, Jimmy Rollins had 2 hits an RBI and a run scored, and Shane Victorino had 3 hits, an RBI, and a run scored. In all the Phils put up just 4 runs, but it was enough to win 4-2, despite another shaky save and 9th inning for Flash Gordon, who had to get out of a bases loaded jam. Seriously, for a minute there I thought the Phils were going to blow it, but Flash pulled Mitch Williams and got out of it somehow. So the Phils are now 4-10, which still isn't very good but it is better than 3-1, and who knows maybe this will finally get them on a roll.