The good times kept on rolling for the Phils tonight. Joe Blanton provided another quality start with 6 scoreless innings, while allowing just 3 runs on 7 hits over 6+ strong. Meanwhile the Phils bats finally made someone pay. Unfortunately for the Twin's Nick Blackburn that someone was him as he was slaughtered for 8 runs on 6 hits in only an inning and a 3rd. In the 1st, Chase Utley singled, Ryan Howard tripled, and Jayson Werth slapped a sac fly all with one out to produce 3 runs. In the 2nd, with 2 outs Placido Polanco slapped a RBI single, Utley crushed a 3 run homer, and Howard followed with a solo shot for a shockingly quick 8-0 lead. They weren't finished either. In the 5th Howard added a another bomb for a 9-0 lead.
It was pretty much over at that point but Minnesota did at least make it interesting. Blanton flamed out early in the 7th, allowing 2 of his 3 runs. Then things seemed to stabilize as Chad Durbin finished off the 7th without issue and J.C Romero tossed a scoreless 8th. Then Scott Mathieson, who last appeared with the Phils 3 years ago before going through Tomm John surgery twice and who was recently called up to replace the injured Antonio Bastardo, was given the chance to close it out. Not surprisingly he was bit shaky and ended up allowing a couple runs to cut the lead to 9-5. That gave Minnesota brief hope of victory before Brad Lidge came in and closed it out with just 3 pitches. So the Phils got their 3rd straight victory to move 35-30 but they remain 3.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East.
2 comments:
It looks like the Phils are finally out of their funk and its nice to finally see the offense in multiple games in a row... Its about time.
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yes it is about time
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