PHILLIES NEWS

All I can say is thank God I had the draft to distract me from having to watch too much of this game. Yeah, it was that ugly and you could tell it was going to be from the start. Phils starter Adam Eaton got roughed up in the first inning allowing the Marlins to take an early 3-0 lead, not good when the starting pitcher in the visitor's dugout is Dontrelle Willis. Even worse when your big bopper, Ryan Howard, has the night off because "uncle Charlie" doesn't want to start him against the nasty lefty. At any rate despite Eaton's struggles, he gave up 7 runs on 10 hits in just 4 and 1/3rds innings, the Phils managed to hang around, as Aaron Rowand singled and scored in the 1st inning and Rod Barajas hit a solo shot in the second inning, his first homer as a Phil. Incredibly, thanks to those RBIs and two RBIs from Chase Utley, the phils managed to enter the 6th inning only trailing the by 3 with the score at 7-4. After reliever Fransisco Rosario quickly got two outs it seemed like it would at least stay that way into the 7th inning, but then the wheels came lose. Rosario allowed consecutive singles to Miguel Cabrera and Mike Jacobs, then Josh Willingham stepped up and crushed a 3 run homer and suddenly the Phils were down 10-4. Unfortunately, they never recovered from the shock of Willingham's homer, as Miguel Cabrera added a solo homer in the 8th inning and the Marlins won going away 11-5, dropping the Phils record to 10-13. Oh well, better luck next time guys.