From Jamie Moyer's gem last night the Phils just kept on rolling into tonight where Kyle Kendrick produced some magic of his own. He allowed just 1 run on 4 hits over 7 brilliant innings to frustrate the Yankee offense for the 2nd night in a row. Meanwhile the Phils bats stayed awake for another night. In the 4th Ryan Howard slapped a 1 out single for the Phils 1st run of the night. In the 5th Shane Victorino popped a 2 run homer for a 3-0 lead. After that it looked like the Phils might not score again for the rest of the night but with Kyle cruising along it didn't seem like it would matter.Then Yanks scored in the 6th to cut the lead to 6-1 and the Phils left the bases loaded yet again in the 7th. So it was clear at that point they were going need at least one or two more runs to hold off the Yanks for the 2nd night in a row.
After Kendrick got through the 7th, and Jose Contreras got through the 8th curtousy of his own spectacular backhanded catch, the Phils bats finally went back to work in the 9th. There the Yankee bullpen simply unraveled. First Joba Chamberlain allowed a leadoff double Carlos Ruiz and a single by Wilson Valdez to score Ruiz for a 4-1 lead. Then Damaso Marte replace Chamberlain and walked the bases loaded before giving up back to back sac flies to Placido Polanco and Ryan Howard for a 6-1 lead. Finally ex Phil Chan Ho Park came in and allowed an RBI double to Ibanez before getting out of the inning on a lucky break as a screaming liner off the bat of Ben Francisco clipped Ibanez in the back of his foot for the final out. From there Contreras and J.C Romero closed it out in the 9th and the Phils had won their 2nd consecutive regular season series over the Yanks. The Phils are now back to 4 games over .500 but remain 3.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East as the AL central leading Minnesota Twins come to the Bank for the weekend.
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