The bad times kept rolling on for the Phils tonight. It took just 1 inning for another Phil to go on the DL as Jamie Moyer strained his elbow after just an inning of work. That left recent call up Andrew Carpenter to replace Moyer and he was no match for the mighty Cardinal lineup. He did hang in there for at least 4 innings and he kept it close, limiting St. Louis to just 3 runs through those 4 innings, but it was a fruitless effort. Despite having runners in scoring position multiple times, the Phils did not score for Carpenter at all. Of course they had pretty decent excuse for not scoring tonight at least, with former CY Young award winner Chris Carpenter on the mound for St. Louis. Still, they should have been able to capitalize on at least one of there early scoring chances.
Anyway, Andrew was replaced by Danys Baez in the 5th and it was here that the game got away from the Phils. Baez served up a 3 run homer to Matt Holiday for a 6-0 Cardinal lead and the Phils never recovered from there. They finally got on the board in the 7th with Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino slapping back to back doubles, but Ryan Madson gave that run back in the 8th and the Phils eventually fell 7-1. It is their 3rd straight loss and 5th in their last 6 games so obviously change is needed and apparently the Phils are close to a series of trades to land a starting pitcher and trade Jayson Werth for prospects and the room to bring up Dominic Brown. We'll find out about it soon enough. As for Moyer he was placed on the DL indefinitely, but considering his injured was described as similar to the one that put J.A Happ on the DL, he'll probably be out for a while.
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