PHILLIES NEWS

A 47 year old can't be this good right? No one that old can hold one of the most potent lineups in baseball to only 2 runs on 6 hits over 7 innings right? No one whose fastball tops out in the low 80s can strikeout 7 batters right? Well apparently no limits apply, be it age or speed, to Jamie Moyer because that's exactly what he did today to the Toronto Blue Jays. He just kept the free swinging Jays off balance all afternoon long by mixing his pitches and hitting his spots. Even when they knew what was coming the Jays couldn't hit it. Ultimately it was just very frustrating afternoon for them.
On other the hand the Phils bats were on fire as they racked up 11 runs on 13 hits plus 4 sloppy Toronto throwing errors. Pretty much everything went wrong for the Jays in this one and the Phils took advantage.

In the top of the 2nd Jimmy Rollins and Ben Francisco each had RBI singles and Dane Sardinha slapped an RBI double for 4 runs. Following a Toronto error in the 4th Rollins and Utley collected back to back singles for 2 more runs. In the 5th Ryan Howard and Shane Victorino led off the inning with back to back doubles for another run and 7-2 lead. In the 7th, Howard was wrongly called safe on a close play at first but hey we'll take it. Francisco followed 2 batters later with an RBI double and Toronto committed throwing errors on back to back plays to allow another 3 runs to score for a massive 11-2 lead. From there David Herndon and Danys Baez combined to close out the Phils 5th win in their last 6, 2nd straight series win and interleague play for the season with a 10-8 record. That's Phils first winning record in interleague play since they moved into the Bank and significant step in the right direction this season. Overall it's their 40th win of the season against 33 losses which puts them just 2.5 games back in the NL East, not a bad place to be in late June.