PHILLIES NEWS

After 4 unimpressive outings by their starting pitchers to open the season, the Phils finally got a decent start tonight from Brett Myers. In becoming the first Phils starter to win a game this season, Myers held the Rockies to 4 runs on 4 hits in 7 strong innings of work. Fittingly, at mile high Coors Field, 3 of those 4 hits were homeruns. So it wasn't a Myers masterpiece by any means, but it was enough, as the Phils finally started collecting hits. In all on the day they pounded Rockies pitching for 15 hits, many of which came at just right moment. In the bottom of the 2nd Troy Tulowitzki slammed a 2 run homer for a 2-0 lead. In the top of the 3rd, Ryan Howard socked a 1 out bases clearing double to put the Phils up 3-2. In the bottom of the 4th Garret Atkins launched a solo homer to tie it at 3. In the top of the 5th Jayson Werth legged out a 2 out triple, knocking in 2 runs for a 5-3 lead. In the bottom of the 5th, Clint Barmes lined a solo homer into the seats to cut it to 5-4. In top of the 7th, Raul Ibanez absolutely crushed a solo homer for a 6-4 lead. In the top of the 8th the "Flyin Hawaiian", Shane Victorino lined a 2 out double, his 3rd hit of the day, and scored on a single by Chase Utley for a 7-4 lead. In top of the 9th, Ibanez doubled and scored on a single by Pedro Feliz for an 8-4 lead. Finally in the bottom of the 9th simply because they were playing at Coors where no lead is safe, Brad Lidge came in and closed it out. So the Phils move to 2-3 overall and look to be just fine thank you. By the way if you're wondering what happened to Chan Ho Park, the winner of competition for the 5th spot in the Phils rotation and the guy who was scheduled to start tonight, he was scratched from his start tonight reportedly because he was feeling tightness in his hamstring during warmups. So he'll likely start on Tuesday instead.