Rookie J.A. Happ who had to deal with trade rumors last week and rumors this week of going to the bullpen or possibly being demoted when Pedro comes aboard had a lot on his mind last night. You sure couldn’t tell with how he pitched though. Happ(8-2) threw a complete game shutout only allowing four [...]
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The Philadelphia Phillies(59-44, 1st in NL East) had their roughest week in a while as they went on a west coast swing. After taking the first two out in Arizona, they traveled to play the wild card leading San Francisco Giants with a possible playoff preview. If this was a preview, the Giants got the [...]
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The Atlanta Braves are the only team starting a new series on Thursday night, so we will have a scaled down version just for them today, with a full version tomorrow afternoon. Enjoy!
The Atlanta Braves(53-52, 3rd in NL East 7GB, 5GB of Wildcard) had a rough week that slowed down them down considerably. In [...]
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The Philadelphia Phillies were looking to have another successful series and take two out of three games from the formerly Central division leading St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. They ended up routing them for the second straight day, led by home runs from Utley, Howard, Rollins and Ibanez, all of the two run variety on [...]
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The Philadelphia Phillies(53-39, 1st in NL East) are now winners of nine of their last ten games and fourteen of sixteen since getting swept by the Braves a few weeks ago. With that run and the mediocre play of the rest of the division, they have opened up a 5.5 game lead on the Atlanta [...]
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Last night, the Phillies offense wasn’t as high powered as it has been, instead most of the support was from pitching on this day. Joe Blanton pitched seven innings only giving up one run against the Chicago Cubs, and the Phillies could only manage a solo home run from Jimmy Rollins against the Cubs starter. [...]
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The Philadelphia Phillies(51-38, 1st in NL East) have now won eight games in a row and have extended to a 6.5 game lead over the second place Braves in the NL East. In three games in Florida this weekend, they outscored the Marlins 15-5 and Ryan Howard even hit his 200th career home run. They [...]
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