The Phils continued their winning ways against the Padres this afternoon as Kyle Kendrick turned in a solid outing, allowing just 3 runs on 6 hits over 5 and 2/3rd's innings. Thank's to Chase Utley's 3 run homer in the 1st inning that outing was just enough to keep the Phils in it through 6. A power surge in the 7th inning took care of the rest. First, on the very first pitch of the home half of the 7th, Ryan Howard crushed a solo homer to tie the game at 4. A couple batters later Micheal Martinez lined a 3 run shot into the seats to make it 7-4 and finally a couple batters after that Utley connected on his second blast of the night for an 8 -4 lead. In the end that turned out to be just enough for the win after Antonio Bastardo had a shaky 8th inning had to be bailed out by David Herndon with the score 8-6 and the bases loaded. Luckily Ryan Madson was not as shaky in the 9th as he sealed the 8-6 win, the Phils 63rd of the season, which moves them back to 5 games up in the NL East.
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