PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils are officially on a roll now. Even Adam Eaton, yes Adam Eaton, the biggest question mark in the Phils rotation, had a heck of a game today. Eaton went 7 and 2/3rds innings, allowing just 2 runs on 4 hits, while striking out 5. The Only Mistake Eaton made on the night, was his last pitch to Prince Fielder which ended up deep in the seats in right field and cut the Phils lead at the time to 1. Meanwhile, the Brewers Claudio Vargas didn't fare to badly himself, going 6 innings while allowing only 3 runs on 7 hits, including a homer by Greg Dobbs. Jimmy Rollins and Pat Burrell knocked in the other two runs, and the Phils led 3-1 after 7 innings and seemed on their way to a win. Then in the 8th inning everything changed just like last night. Eaton made his one mistake and suddenly the lead was down to 3-2. Then after finishing off the 8th, Brett Myers opened the 9th by serving up a homerun ball to Johhny Estrada, and suddenly it was tied 3-3. Fortunately for the Phils ,Derrick Turnbow, touched up last night for 4 runs on 4 hits, was waiting in the wings again to pitch the bottom of the 9th and with two outs up-stepped Carlos Ruiz to face him. A few pitches later Ruiz went down and got a Turnbow sinker and watched it fly through air into the seats for a Phils victory. Mobbed by his teammates at home plate Ruiz would later receive the greatest of compliments, as he was pied in the face by Shane Victorino. So again the Phils used some late heroics to defeat Milwaukee and are 19-20, once again just one game under .500. Life is still beautiful.