Coming into this afternoon the San Diego Padres had not had a losing streak longer than 3 games all season long. All of that changed today. Cole Hamels was brilliant again, tossing 8 scoreless innings on just 4 hits while striking out 6. He actually did get himself into and out of a few jams in the early going but after that it was smooth sailing. Meanwhile, the Phils actually managed to support him for a change with some help from San Diego's defense which imploded for the first time all season and committed 4 errors.First in the 3rd inning, Clayton Richard's errant pickoff attempt allowed Carlos Ruiz to move up to 2nd, and a couple batter's later he scored on a single by Jimmy Rollins for a 1-0 lead.
Mike Sweeney, who got the start at 1st in place of Ryan Howard, crushed a 2 run homer down the line in left to make it 3-0 in the 7th. In the 8th Richard made another errant throw after fielding a bunt, which allowed Ruiz to reach 2nd safely and Cole Hamels to get on base. JRoll followed with a fly out on a diving catch by Ryan Ludwick, but while attempting to double Hamels off first Ludwick through the ball over everyone and into the Padres' dugout, causing Ruiz to be awarded home for a 4-0 lead. Finally in the 9th, Jayson Werth got a green light from Charlie on a 3-0 count and smashed a solo homer for a 5-0 lead. That was more than enough insurance for Ryan Madson to retire the Padres in the home half of the 9th and secure the weekend sweep. Unfortunately everyone else won today as well so the Phils remain 1.5 games up in the wild card race and 2 back in the NL East.
2 comments:
Its pretty crazy how the Phillise lose to the Astros and tehn they manage to beat a good team like the Padres. I hope they can manage to start beating every team because this playoff race is going to be bad.
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yeah is going to be a tight race
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