Chris Berman would have had a field day calling last nights blowout win over the Nationals last night. The Phillies hit 4 homeruns en route to a 12-2 victory. And for all of those critics out there who say that the Phillies only hit a lot of homeruns because they play in Citizens Bank Park (looking your way southfloridafan blog), the game was at Washington. In fact, Ryan Howard in his career is at an almost 50/50 split of home and away homeruns. His 2 longballs last night just go to prove that the kid has some mad power.
Howard’s journey to .200 is getting ever closer. In going 3-5 with 2 homers and 4 RBIs last night, Howard is now batting .195. It might still be bad, but he has looked much better in the last week or so.
Pedro Feliz, and Shane Victorino also went 3-5 with homeruns of their own. Victorino also scored 3 runs. Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, and Chris Coste each added 2 hits a piece taking the team total to 15! Rollins and Victorino stepped into the batters box 6 times each last night. That’s how much batting was going on.
Not everybody took part in the offensive festivities though. Pat Burrell and Jayson Werth each went 0-4. Burrell has cooled off almost completely, and is now batting just .271.
Jamie Moyer pitched 6 shutout innings to get his 4th victory of the season. Clay Condrey picked up the rare save in a 10-run win by pitching the last three innings of the game. He gave up 2 runs in the 7th, but was able to relax finish out the game.
Things get tougher tonight as the Phillies will take on Roy Oswalt in Houston. As I said before we played him at home, it doesn’t matter what his record is because he has amazing stuff and can pitch lights out at any moment. JRoll and Vic getting on base early and putting some pressure on with the running game will be key to getting a victory tonight.
