PHILLIES NEWS

This one makes two tough losses for the Phils in a row. Initially, through the 1st 5 and 1/2 innings it was all Phils as Cole Hamels was dealing a 1 run, 2 hit gem. The Phils offense meanwhile, was racking up the long balls. With Ryan Howard, and Greg Dobbs hitting solo homers, and Pat Burrell hitting a 2 run homer the Phils raced out to a 5-1 lead. Then in the bottom of the 6th Milwaukee began their comeback with 3 runs to cut the Phils lead to 5-4. Hamels then got through the 7th, but Tom Gordon, inserted in the 8th inning to set up Brett Myers for the save, wasn't so lucky. He allowed a 2 out, 2 run homer to Prince Fielder and just like that the Brew Crew was ahead 6-5. Unfortunately, for the Phils that was just about all she wrote, as they went down in order in the 9th. Thus, the Phils drop to 57-53 overall, but remain 5 games behind the Mets who lost today as well. So life still sucks, any questions?