The Phils continued their series with the Padres tonight. Antonio Bastardo, making his major league debut, got the start and shined, allowing just 1 run on 4 hits in 6 impressive innings. Meanwhile the Phils tagged Jake Peavy with 4 runs on 3 hits in just 1 inning of work, on their way to racking up 10 runs on 11 hits, unbelievable totals at cavernous Petco Park. Needless to say it was a pretty easy night for the Phils. In the top of the 1st, Ryan Howard doubled in 2 runs and scored on a double by Raul Ibanez, who then scored on a sac fly by Greg Dobbs for a 4-0 lead. In the top of the 3rd, Ibanez slammed a 2 run homer for a 6-0 lead. In the top of the 4th the "Flyin Hawaiian", Shane Victorino tripled and scored on a fielder's choice for a 7-0 lead. In the top of the 5th Dobbs slugged a solo homer for an 8-0 lead. Finally in the bottom of the 6th Adrian Gonzalez put the Padres on the board with a solo shot to cut it to 8-1. In the top of the 7th Ibanez crushed another 2 run homer for a 10-1 lead. Chan Ho Park relieved Bastardo in the bottom of the inning and ran into some trouble, allowing 4 runs on a single by Edgar Gonzalez, a bases loaded walk to Adrian Gonzalez, and a single by Chase Headley to cut it to 10-5. Fortunately, Chad Durbin took over from there and got within one out of closing out the 10-5 win, before Ryan Madson was forced to come in and get the final out with the bases loaded. All I can say about the Phils at this point is wow. They are 18-6 on the road and I just can't figure it out. How do they keep playing so well on the road? I keep waiting for them to start to cool off on the road, and it just hasn't happened yet. Hopefully it will never happen this season. Anyway so the Phils are now 30-20 overall and lead the NL East by 2.5 games.
2 comments:
Wow Bastardo's start went a lot better than I expected and I'm really happy to hear that. Oh yea its nice that the Phillies offense kept the streak of showing up going.
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yeah it was all nice yee hah!
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