For the second straight season, the Phillies were in it until the final day. This year they needed to win and get some help but I feel better this year because the team was given up for dead at the trade deadline. Then again, if they hadn’t traded Abreu for nothing………
I’ll be running down the season in the next couple of weeks but let’s take one last look at the Phillies final series of the season.
Pat Burrell homered twice in the Phillies blowout win on Friday. He scored four runs and drove in three while Jamie Moyer coasted to an easy win. He was 5-2 while with the Phillies. Scott Victorino also had a nice game. He went five for six with three RBIs and two runs in the 14-2 blowout win.
The Phillies also got it done on Saturday. Ryan Howard singled home Scott Victorino in the third inning to give the Phillies a 4-3 win and that was the first lead of the game for the Phillies. Oddly, it would hold. Randy Wolf pitched only 1 2/3 and Ryan Madson picked up the win.
The winning came to an end yesterday but the Phillies gave baseball fans a couple of extra innings to watch before checking in for the season. It was fitting that Ryan Howard drove in the tying run in the seventh to send the game into extra frames but the Phillies lost in the eleventh on Danny Sandoval’s error at shortstop.
I may or may not do playoff predictions. None of the teams in there really excite me. I do find the Padres intriuging and I could always root for Abreu and Lidle for the Yankees but I think I’m going to have to wait and see until the games actually start.
