PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils played a makeup game with the San Diego Padres tonight, which was originally the 4th game of the team's series back in April. While, that series went mostly the way of San Diego it was a different story tonight. Cole Hamels was solid allowing just 3 runs on 4 hits in 7 innings. Meanwhile, the Phils roughed up Padre's starter Kevin Correia for 8 runs on 9 hits in just 3 and 1/3rd innings. So it really wasn't much of a contest. Jayson Werth got it all started in the bottom of the 2nd with a leadoff double and run scored on a single by Pedro Feliz. Later a double by Jimmy Rollins and a single by Chase Utley produced 2 more runs and a 3-0 lead. In the bottom of the 3rd Werth doubled again and scored on an error for a 4-0 lead. The wheels came loose ever so slightly for Hamels in the top of the 4th as Chase Headley doubled in one run and Kyle Banks slammed a 2 run homer to suddenly cut the lead to 4-3. The Phils came right back in the bottom of the inning though, with an RBI single by Ryan Howard, a 2 run double by Raul Ibanez, and RBI single by Werth for a quick 8-3 lead. Safely ahead again, Hamels really bared down from there and cruised through the 7th inning where Carlos Ruiz added a solo shot in the bottom half for a 9-3 lead. Later in the 8th inning the Padres added a run off the rookie Andrew Carpenter(J.C Romero and Chad Durbin are now on the DL for a couple weeks and hopefully no longer, so Carpenter and Tyler Walker were called up to replace them) to cut it to 9-4 but from there Chan Ho Park came in and put the Padres away. Considering this game wasn't even supposed to be tonight, it was nice to see the Phils take care of business against an inferior team. Albert Pujols and the St.Louis Cardinals are coming to town for a weekend series starting tomorrrow and it should be pretty entertaining to watch as it pits arguably the best lineup in the NL against the one of the top 5 pitching staffs in the NL. So it will be interesting to see what wins the day, good pitching or good hitting. Anyway so the Phils move to 54-39 overall now and back to 6.5 games up in the NL East.