Some nights you turn on the game and you just have to sit back and say wow. Tonight was one of those nights. You wouldn't have guessed it would be, not with Jamie Moyer going up against Met's ace Johan Santana. Especially not after Moyer surrendered a 3 run homer to David Wright in the 1st and 2 run homer to Rod Barajas in the 4th to give NY an early 5-2 lead. Ryan Howard and Placido Polanco each had solo homers in the 1st inning or it might have been 5-0. So there they were trailing 5-2 heading in the bottom of the 4th with Santana on the mound. Game over right?
Not on this night. Those 2 first inning homers turned out to be a foreboding of the what was come and it all occurred in the bottom of the 4th with 2 outs.
First Raul Ibanez slapped an RBI single. Then Raul Castro and Carlos Ruiz followed with a single and a walk respectively to load the bases. Next Moyer worked a bases loaded walk to push across another run. Then Shane Victorino crunched a grand slam. Polanco followed that with a single and then Chase Utley ended Santana's night with a 2 run blast. From there Howard singled and scored on a double by Jayson Werth before Ibanez finally grounded out to end the massacre. All told in the inning the Phils generated 9 runs and 8 hits and sent 16 batters to the plate, just 2 short of batting around twice. Perhaps more impressive is that most of it came against Santana himself, with 2 out. In fact the 10 runs and 8 hits the Phils pounded out against him is the worst beating Santana has ever taken in his career. I think this pretty much the dispels the notion that the Phils can't hit good pitching.
Anyway after the massacre Moyer took care of business in the retiring all 6 batters he faced in the 5th and 6th to lock up his 3rd win of the season. Chad Durbin in the 7th and 8th and Danys Baez in the 9th later combined to close things out for Jamie and finish the stunning 11-5 win. If the Mets were feeling good about themselves coming into this series they can't be feeling much now but shock and dejection after their top 2 starting pitchers, Pelfrey yesterday and Santana tonight, were toyed with by the Phils lineup. Conversely the Phils must be feeling pretty good about themselves right now with back to back10 run games after struggling to hit for the better part of the last 2 weeks. It will be tough for them to keep it going with the Cardinals coming in for the next 3 days but here's hoping they do. At any rate for right now the Phils are back in 1st at 14-10 overall and I'm happy.
2 comments:
Back to first place and its feeling good especially since we just whipped the Mets aces with a rediculous amount of offense. The Phils could have had any of their pitchers pitching that game and they could have won. Its good to see the offense back and showing its teeth.
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yeah it was good to see but it will be tough to keep it up
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