PHILLIES NEWS

How sweet it is. That's all I can say about tonight's game. Once again it began as a pitcher's duel, but this time only for 6 innings. Adam Eaton tossed 6 stellar innings for the Phils allowing just 2 runs on 5 hits while striking out 4. Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez was just a touch better though blanking the Phils in 6 innings of work, allowing just 3 hits, while striking out 3. So through 6 innings it was 2-0, as Carlos Beltran hit a solo homer in the 4th and Endy Chavez who later left the game with a bad hamstring, manufactured a run in the 6th. The Mets could have actually had more but later in the 4th inning, after the homer, Carlos Delgado was gunned down by Shane Victorino trying to tag up and score on flyout. Thus, When the Phils put runners on 2nd and third with only one out in the 7th all they needed was a single to forge a tie. First up, was the once designated Met killer Pat Burrell, but all he could do was strikeout weakly. Then up stepped the designated most hated man in New York, Jimmy Rollins, for whom the fans began cheering as he quickly fell behind in the count, against reliever Aaron Heilman. JROLL got his revenge a couple pitches later though, as he slapped what wound up being a game winning 3 run homer down the line in right, putting the Phils ahead 3-2, and sending the crowd and the Mets into a stupor from which they would never recover. Aaron Rowand later singled in a run in the 8th to put the Phils up 4-2 and just like last night, that's how it ended. The much maligned Phils bullpen pitched 3 scoreless frames, as Geoff Geary, Ryan Madson, and Antonio Alfonseca combined to close it out. So the Phils are now back above .500(30-29), and within 6 games of the Mets for first in the NL East, and 2.5 of the Braves for second. Life is beautiful again and like I said how sweet it is.