PHILLIES NEWS

Just like last night the Phils got off to a quick start in Colorado, with Jimmy Rollins leading off with his 100th career homerun, and Ryan Howard hitting a 2 run homer, as Phils scored 3 runs in the 1st inning for a 3-0 lead. Unfortunately, just then after Howard's homer the game was halted by rain for 1 hour and 22 minutes and it washed away the Phils momentum. The Phils did not score again for the rest of the game while starter Jamie Moyer, after allowing only 1 run in the 1st 4 innings, was touched up for 4 in his final inning and 2/3rds of work, including a 2 run homer by Ryan Spillborghs in the 5th inning. The Phils bullpen couldn't do much better, allowing another run in the 7th, and before you knew it Colorado was ahead 6-3. It quickly ended like that as the Phils went down in order in the 8th and 9th innings. So the Phils are now back under .500 at 43-44 and 5.5 games behind the Mets who won a marathon 17 inning game over the Astros. Fortunately, the Braves lost, so the Phils are still only 2.5 games out of 2nd, but Life still sucks again anyway.