The rules are the rules, and last night’s game is official. The game didn’t even make it through five innings, but the Mets were down after they hit in the fifth before the rain came. A win is a win and we could have used one of these last year.
Tuesday’s game was by far the best of the series. The Phillies jumped out to a three run lead in the second inning. That rally was capped off by Jimmy Rollins’ two run double. Then Bret Myers did his job. He had a shutout going through seven before the Mets finally got to him in eighth inning. Xavier Nady took him deep with a two run shot to make it a 3-2 game. The Phillies answered in the bottom half of the inning with a much needed run on Ryan Howard’s RBI double. Then Tom Gordon came in, who’s been lights out, to pitch the ninth. Unfortunately, this wasn’t his day. He gave up a two run shot to Carlos Delgado, and just like that, the game was tied.
Things didn’t look good when the first two Phillies made outs in the ninth. Then David Delucci came up huge with a pinch hit triple. Jimmy Rollins was hit and then Chasey Utley was walked to load the bases. Then Bobby Abreau caught a break and was safe at first on Aaron Heillman’s throwing error. Delucci scampered home and the Phillies won the game 5-4.
Wednesday’s game was ugly. Cory Lidle had one of his worst starts of the season and by the end of the third inning, the Phillies were down 10-0. Pat Burrell and Ryan Howard both homered but the Phillies never came close to mounting a comeback. Howard also made two errors in the game and his season total is now six. That’s not good, fortunately his two misplay were in games where it didn’t much matter.
Yesterday, Chase Utley homered in the first and David Bell drove home Shane Victorino in the fourth and Phillies had a 2-0 leading heading into the bottom of the fifth. Gavin Floyd looked really sharp and he had only given up two hits when the rain came. It was eventually called so the Phillies walked away with the series. The downer of this game was Aaron Rowand messed up his face slamming into the wall and making an outstanding catch that potentially saved the game for the Phillies.
So the Phillies are three games back of the Mets and they travel to Cincinnati, who started out on a tear but has since evened out. They have won two straight, but hopefully the Phillies can end that mini-streak.
