After winning on Tuesday night over the Nationals, 7-1, the Phillies had won five straight, and they were looking for their sixth straight win in a row last night. Tuesday night’s game was highlighted by two homeruns from Chase Utley and a good start from Cole Hamels, but it was shadowed by Hamels going down with a sprained ankle in the fifth inning. Hamels was pitching great, and he was coming back to form, but he seems like he just can’t catch a break. Luckily it appears that this sprained ankle is minor, and Hamels and the team believes that he will be ready for his next scheduled start on Monday against the St. Louis Cardinals. Hamels has now had three setbacks already early on in the season. Tuesday night’s victory was a rare win this season in which the Phillies “came-from-ahead” to get the victory-meaning they were never trailing the entire game-only the second time that has happened this season.
In last night’s game, the Phillies attempted to win another game in their more traditional fashion of coming from behind. Brett Myers had a quality start for the Phils, in which he gave up three runs over six innings to keep the Phils close, but all of a sudden the Phillies offense went quiet. With the exception of a solo homerun by red-hot Shane Victorino in the first inning, the Phillies could not amount any more offense. They provided a threat in the bottom of the eighth inning, but they would eventually go down 4-1, as the Nationals picked up just their fifth win of the season, and they stopped the Phillies five game winning streak. The Phillies have the day off today, and they will look forward to starting another winning streak when they face-off against the hated Mets, in what has become one of the best rivalries in all of baseball. Game one is tomorrow night at Citizen’s Bank Park in which RHP Chan Ho Park (0-0) for the Phillies is due to start against the young RHP Mike Pelfrey (2-0) of the New York Mets.
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Let their hitting ride in the hole in the ground.
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