PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils got whacked today and I mean whacked. You would have though that with Jamie Moyer on the hill for tonight's game that they would've had a good chance to get over .500 for the first time all season, but Moyer's presence made no difference. Early on Moyer somehow managed to get out of jams in the 1st and 2nd innings. He wasn't so lucky in the 3rd and 4th innings. Troy Glaus homered in the 3rd, and Lyle Overbay homered in the 4th as the Jays racked up a combined 7 runs in the 2 innings and chased Moyer from the game with only 3 and 1/3rd innings pitched and 7 runs on 8 hits allowed, not exactly the kind of outing the Phils were expecting from him. The Phils meanwhile were held to 2 runs on 4 hits through 6 strong innings pitched by Shawn Marcum. The Phils only highlight in those 6 innings was a solo homer by Chase Utley, his 8th of the season thus far. Still, the Phils only trailed 7-2 going into the 8th inning and given the late inning heroics they have been coming up with lately, you thought maybe they could do it again, by putting up a couple runs in each of the last 2 innings, but the Toronto ensured that wouldn't happen with their performance in the top of the 8th inning. All told they put up 6 more runs including a Matt Stairs Grand Slam off Clay Condrey. That made it 13-2 Jays and that was all she wrote. So once again the Phils are under .500 at 21-22 and life sucks.