PHILLIES NEWS

Well this is it Phils fans, the big one, number 10,000, that's loss number 10,000 to you neophytes out there and you know what, were all damn proud of it. Well, okay maybe not management, but anyway the Phils picked one hell of a loss for number 10,000. Adam Eaton got the start tonight, and was racked for 6 runs on 10 hits. He didn't even get out of the 5th inning, as the Cards homered off of him twice, with Albert Pujols launching one to dead center field and Chris Duncan lining one to left field. Still, at that point it was only 6-0 Cards, so the Phils still had a chance. However, they loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning and failed to get runs off it. Then after Jose Mesa kept St.Louis off the board in the 6th, Brian Sanches came into relieve him in the 7th and it all got away from the Phils. The Cards hit not one, not two, but three homers off Sanches in the 7th, with Albert Pujols, Adam Kennedy, and Juan Encarnacion all hitting solo shots for a 9-0 Cards lead. Ryan Ludwick then led off the 8th with another solo shot off Sanches, who was still in the game for some reason, and suddenly it was a 10-0 Cards lead. The Phils wound up scoring a couple meaningless runs in the 9th, on a solo homer by Micheal Bourn (the first of his career) and a double by Chase Utley, to make the final score 10-2. So the Phils drop to 46-45, and back to 5 games behind the Mets for first in the NL East. Thus, life sucks again.