PHILLIES NEWS

Tonight, was big for the Phils. With a huge 4 game weekend series with the first place Mets starting tomorrow they needed a win tonight to bring some momemtum into that series. Adam Eaton toughed out 6 solid innings despite allowing 5 runs on 6 hits, 2 of them homers, by Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Dunn. The Phils meanwhile flashed some power of their own. Twice Chase Utley hit 2 run homers in he 1st and 4th innings, and Greg Dobbs crushed a two RBI double in the 5th to put the Phils ahead 6-5 through 6 innings. The Reds tied it in the 7th and then took the lead in the 8th at 7-6, with a solo homer by Alex Gonzalez. In the end though, the hero of the night would be Jimmy Rollins. He tied it at 7 in the 8th with a two out triple and then in the bottom of the 10th in a driving rain with 2 on and 2 out he singled into gap in right center to score Jayson Werth with the winning run. So the Phils won 8-7 to improve to 41-37 now just 3 games behind the Mets for first in the NL East. In other words the winner of this weekend's series will move into first in the NL East, of course the Phils will have to sweep the series to do so, but to me that still counts. Anway, life is beautiful again.