Not long before the game tonight Shane Victorino was placed on the DL. In his place Dominic Brown was called up from AAA Lehigh. Wasting no time the Phils inserted him into the starting lineup tonight for the 1st game of his major league and boy was it a memorable one. In his first at bat Brown ripped an RBI double off the wall in right. He later scored on a fielder's choice to give the Phils an early 2-0 lead. In his 3rd at bat Brown singled to left field and then scored from 1st on a 2 run double by Carlos Ruiz for a 4-0 lead. Then a couple batters later Placido Polanco singled to score Ruiz for a 5-0 lead. Finally in the 7th Brown slapped a sac fly to score one run. Then Ruiz doubled again for a 2nd run and a 7-0 lead.
All told on the night Brown went 2 for 3 with 2 RBIs, and 2 runs scored during one of best opening acts for a Phils prospect in some. As immpressive as Brown was, Roy Halladay might have been even more impressive. He pitched his 8th complete game of the season while allowing just 1 run on 6 hits and striking out 9. He was just too much for Arizona to handle with the speed and location of his pitches so precise. Moreover, he also had a chance to pitch with a lead for once and it helped. So with the combined efforts of Halladay and Brown the Phils rolled to a 7-1 win, their 7th in a row and enough to keep them with 3.5 games of 1st in the NL East. If they wish to pull even closer they'll have to keep up what they've been doing for a long while. Go Phils!
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Its amazing the amount of people the Phillies have hurt and I'm pretty pumped to see brown do so well in his first game in the bigs. Halladay continues to be the man and things are looking up with this win streak still going.
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