6, that's how many runs the Phils put up tonight along with 10 hits, but it fell like a lot more. After a long streak of games in which they couldn't score any more than 3 runs, to put up 6 in this one was special and a hopefully a signal that the team is headed out of there slump at last. Just like last though they didn't have to score that many runs. The 4 they scored in the 3rd inning alone would have been enough as ,the ageless one, Jamie Moyer tossed his 2nd complete game of the season on just 98 pitches. All told he allowed just 2 runs on 7 hits to lower his ERA to 3.98. It's first time his ERA has been that low in couple years, and yet thanks to the Phils struggles at the plate he's only 6-5 overall.
Fortunately the Fightins seemed to come out of their perpetual haze tonight. It started in the 4th with 4 consecutive hits to the begin the inning, singles by Shane Victorino, Placido Polanco, and Chase Utley and a double by Ryan Howard, producing 3 runs. Raul Ibanez later added a sac fly for a 4th run before Carlos Ruiz lined out to end the inning. In the 5th Jayson Werth kept it going with a 2 run homer, on a ball he didn't hit very hard but that just kept carrying until it was in first row in right. Basically it was your classic cheap Citizens Bank homerun, but the Phils will take it. Moyer quickly mowed the Padres from there to close out the important 6-2 win, the Phils 30th of the season. With the Atlanta idle tonight it was enough to move the Phils back to within 2 games of 1st in the NL East. Here's hoping is only the beginning of something big.
2 comments:
6 runs!!! I CANT BELIEVE IT!!! What is even more unbelievable is that Jamie Moyer pitched such a gem when the offense actually scored some runs. Now we have to wait and see if that just wasnt a fluke.
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yeah we'll see
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