Roy Halladay made his Citizen's Bank Park debut tonight against the Florida Marlins. He was brilliant as usual, allowing just 2 runs on 8 hits while striking out 4 over 8 innings. Meanwhile, the Phils ran up another 8 runs on 12 hits over those same 8 innings. Ryan Howard, Juan Castro, and Carlos Ruiz all singled in the 1st to produce a quick 3-0 lead. In the 2nd inning Placido Polanco lined out a rare solo homer for a 4-0 lead. In the 3rd inning Jayson Werth doubled and scored on a sac fly by Castro for a 5-0 lead. In the 7th inning Chase Utley slammed another solo homer, his 6th of the season thus far, and Werth doubled in a run and scored on a single by Castro for an 8-1 lead.
So after Halladay got out of a jam in the 8th the Phils entered the 9th inning leading 8-2 and on their way to cruising to victory. Halladay reluctantly took a seat on the bench after the 8th and Charlie Manuel gave the ball to David Herndon to close things out. While Herndon did what he's here with the Phils, forcing the Marlins hit groundballs, they got stuck in the rain soaked infield grass and wound up as infield hits instead of ground outs and before you knew it he had allowed 4 runs on 5 hits, 3 in the infield, and the Fish had closed to within 2, with the score 8-6. So Ryan Madson was forced into the game and he finally got Jorge Cantu to ground into the final out. So the Phils move to 8-2, still the best record in the major's.
2 comments:
Its nice to know that at least two things are pretty consistent on the Phillies. That be Halladay and the offense other than that the bullpen seems to do whatever they feel like on any given day so hopefully they can turn that around and become the best team in the MLB
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I think the bullpen is fine. before the loss to Washington it had the lowest ERA in the majors. I am pretty sure it is still top 5 at least, so I wouldn't worry about. The only problem I see is the starters other than Halladay not going deep into games.
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