PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils went for their 4th win in a row tonight in their first of three games against the Diamondbacks. Unfortunately their red hot lineup was shutdown by Diamondback slow-balller Doug Davis. Davis went 8 innings allowing just 1 run on 7 hits while striking out 5, one of which was a Ryan Howard solo homer. Freddy Garcia himself went 8 innings for the Phils but he allowed 3 runs on 7 hits. Then in the top of the 9th Arizona tacked on 2 more runs off Ryan Madson. The Phils, were not ready to quit though. With 2 on and 2 out Greg Dobbs came in to pinch hit and cracked a 3 run homer to cut the lead to 5-4. Then Pat Burrell came in to hit for Abraham Nunez and he singled. Micheal Bourn then came in to run for Burrell and Carlos Ruiz hit another single right through the legs of first basemen Conor Jackson, and suddenly bourn was on 3rd with the tying run and ruiz was aboard first with the winning run. Next up, Rod Barajas to bat for Madson. Barajas then came oh so close to winning it for the Phils as he hit a deep fly ball to right field but he didn't quite get all of it and Carlos Quentin squeezed it in his glove on the warning track. So the Phils have now fallen back to 26-25, and they need to win tomorrow to stay above .500 and life sucks again.