PHILLIES NEWS

Coming off consecutive losses the Phils needed to win tonight's game to earn a split of their series with the Giants, and to right their suddenly sinking ship. Once again just like the last two games the phils got off to a quick start with Shane Victorino hitting a 2 run homer in the first inning. This time, however, Cole Hamels made sure that there would be no Giants comeback. Hamels went 7 strong innings, striking out 9, while allowing only 5 runs on 8 hits. Meanwhile, the Phils pounded out 6 more runs on 6 hits, including another 2 run homer by Ryan Howard, a doubles by Chase Utley and a triple by Jimmy Rollins. Heck, even Hamels doubled and scored what turned out to be the winning run in the 6th inning. Even more impressive though, was the almost unassisted insurance run scored by Micheal Bourn in the 7th inning, as he stole second and third base, and then somehow scored on a hard hit ground ball right to SS Omar Vizquel, as he somehow slid through the plate block of Bengie Molina. For the second time in as many Phils wins Brett Myers entered in the 9th and got the save for an 8-5 Phils win, improving their record to 14-17. Life is somewhat beautiful again.