PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils continued their 3 game set with the Giants this afternoon. Jamie Moyer got the start and after posting his best effort of the season in his last start, he provided by far his worst effort this afternoon, as he was touched up for 6 runs on 9 hits in just 4 innings of work. Meanwhile, the Phils were veritably held in check by Tim Lincecum, posting just 2 runs through 8 innings and this time there would be no late heroics. Now onto the game. In the top of the 2nd, Ryan Howard crushed a solo homer for a 1-0 Phils lead. In the bottom of the inning, ex-Phil Aaron Rowand tagged his former mates with a solo homer and Jose Castillo doubled and scored on a single by Lincecum of all people, to put the Giants up 2-1. In the bottom of the 3rd, Randy Winn singled and scored on a sac fly and Danny Ortmeier socked a 2 out double for 2 more runs as the Giants went up 5-1. In the bottom of the 4th Winn slammed a solo homer for a 6-1 lead. In the bottom of the 5th, Castillo singled and scored on an error by Chris Coste for a 7-1 lead. Finally in the bottom of the 6th, Omar Vizquel singled and scored on a single by Castillo for an 8-1 lead. In the 8th the Phils tacked on a run, as Coste banged out a solo homer to cut the lead to 8-2, but it was to no avail and the Phils eventually lost to drop to 21-17 overall, but hey you can't win em all right?