PHILLIES NEWS

With the 3rd largest crowd in the history of Citizen's Bank Park on hand for today's game, the always popular Phanatic's birthday game, they needed to have something good to watch and Jamie Moyer gave it to them. For 6 and 2/3rd innings Moyer no-hit the Marlins, who had pounded Phillies pitching for 2 days. Unfortunately, just 7 agonizing outs from history, Moyer gave up a double to Miguel Cabrera which just barely flew over the outstretched glove of 3rd baseman Abraham Nunez. Moyer stayed positive though and wound up going 7 and 2/3rds scoreless innings while striking out 5 and allowing just 2 hits. For their part the Phils lineup did just enough to win. Chase Utley had an RBI single on the 1st inning, Jayson Werth starting in place of Pat Burrell, had a 2 RBI single in the 6th inning with the bases loaded, and Greg "Roy Hobbs" Dobbs had a pinch hit bases clearing double in the 8th inning, which scored 3 runs. In all the Phils scratched out 6 runs, enough to win easily 6-1 and improve their record to 11-13. So, once again when the Phils really needed it, they got a gem out of Jamie Moyer to recover from yesterday's embarrassment.