PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils finished off their 3 game set with the Astros this afternoon with quite a bang. Brett Myers got the start and produced a better than solid effort allowing just one run on 5 hits in 7 innings of work. Of course, he could have pitched poorly and probably still would have won this one, as the Phils lineup finally came to life pounding the Stros for 10 runs and 16 hits. Basically it was good old fashioned ass whupping that the Phils put on the Stros today. In the bottom of the first, the Phils quickly jumped out to a 3-0 lead as Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell each slapped RBI singles and Geoff Jenkins slammed an RBI double. In the bottom of the 3rd, a Chris Coste RBI double made it 4-0 Phils. The Stros finally got on the board in the top of the 4th, as Miguel Tejada slammed a solo homer. The Phils came right back in the bottom of the inning as Chase Utley crushed a 2 run homer to push the lead to 6-1. In the bottom of the 6th Howard and Burrell banged out back to back homers to push the lead to 8-1. In the bottom of the 8th, Coste slugged a 2 run homer for a 10-1 Phils lead. Finally, after serving up a Carlos Lee solo homer, Clay Condrey closed out the stros to finish a 10-2 Phils win. So once again the Phils improve to .500 at 8-8. Maybe this time they'll finally get above it.