Baseball: Philadelphia Phillies

Great run! Now we need the Nats to stumble a little bit, they are even hotter at the moment...

Originally posted by Gibbs Baby!!!
Great run! Now we need the Nats to stumble a little bit, they are even hotter at the moment...

No doubt Gibbs, these two teams are on quite a roll.

The Phillies beat the Brewers tonight to make it 11 wins out of 12 and the Nationals won to make it 9 straight for them.

Thats actually 14 out of 16 for the Phils now.

One more game tomorrow vs the Brewers and then off to the West coast to play toejam's boys, the Mariners.

The Phils win today 6-2 and sweep the Brewers. :bounce:

What a homestand for the Phils who have won 6 straight, 12 of 13, and 15 of 17.

The Nationals are beating Seattle 3-2 in the 7th inning. As well as the Phils are playing they're not making any ground in the NL East because the Nats are just as hot.

We're coming to Seattle tj, might be bad timing to catch the Phils right now.

Originally posted by ProudAmerican 0n 6/5

Team W- L - GB

Washington 31-26
Atlanta 30-26....1/2 game behind
N.Y. Mets 29-26... 1
Philadelphia 30-27..... 1
Florida 28-26..... 1 1/2

The Phillies and Nationals did some damage in the past week.

Standings as of Sunday, look at the gap they made in just a week.

Washington 37-26
Philadelphia 36-28, 1 1/2 games back
Florida 31-29, 4 1/2 games back
Atlanta 32-30, 4 1/2 games back
NY Mets 32-31, 5 games back

Still a long way to go but for all 5 teams in the division to be over .500 is pretty impressive, especially considering how many games they play vs one another.

the way the mariners have been playing it is a bad time to catch anyone, the nl east is definatly THE hot division in baseball right now, the phillies and nationals have won 19 of their last 20 games, they will be fun to watch the rest of the way

Hope they keep this up out west!

Who's on the agenda after the Seattle series?

Originally posted by Gibbs Baby!!!
Hope they keep this up out west!

Who's on the agenda after the Seattle series?

They're out west all week, three in Seattle and then three in Oakland. Those games wont be starting here until 10pm so it looks like I'll be up pretty late every night this week. :yawn:

Next week it's back home against the division rival Mets and then the World Champion Red Sox make their first trip to the new Citizens Bank Park.

This week the Nationals are also out west, in Anaheim and then halfway back in Texas. The Nats are playing better temas that the Phils so hopefully we'll see first place at some point this week.

This week the Nationals are also out west, in Anaheim and then halfway back in Texas. The Nats are playing better temas that the Phils so hopefully we'll see first place at some point this week.

That would be awesome! Hoiw long until the all-star break? And how long since they led the division at the All-star break?

Jimmy Rollins believes he's one of the top shortstops in baseball. Now, he has a salary to prove it.

Rollins agreed to a $40 million, five-year contract extension with the team on Monday. The 26-year-old shortstop has spent his entire career with Philadelphia and was eligible for free agency after the 2006 season.

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CBS

Thats why they play the games.

The red-hot Phils lost to the Mariners tonight 3-1 with M's pitcher Gil Meche only allowing only 1 run on 3 hits. As hot as their bats have been, they were nearly invisible tonight. The game took barely over 2 hours to play, quite fast for a baseball game. Tomorrrow night in Seattle again, with Vicente Padilla facing Aaron Sele.


I was glad to see that the Phils locked up J-Roll for that long-term contract, he's a great young shortstop and leadoff batter. He's really stepped up as one of the team leaders as well.

The Phils lost to the Mariners again last night. The M's have thrown some really good pitching at them and as hot as their bats had been, they've been quite quiet the last two games. Tonight the Phils have Brett Myers going against Joel Piniero, hopefully we can get back on track. All of the sudden the Phils are three games behind the Nationals who have continued to play great baseball. They're still in second place though with a long way to go, need a win tonight.

Have you seen any of the games tj?

i havenpt had the chance to see any of the games, i am still trying to adjust to working overnights and leave for work around 8:30 as well, i'm suprised to see the mariners are playing the phils so tough, the new shortstop the m's called up morse, has done well so far in the majors and hit hit first home run last night

Phillies and Mariners tied at 2 heading to the tenth inning. Ryan Madson just struck out Richie Sexson with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning. On to extra innings, the Phils really need to avoid the sweep. The Nationals are off tonight.

The Phils eaked out the win in the 13th inning, with Rollins showing he's worth his new contract.

Originally posted by Gibbs Baby!!!
The Phils eaked out the win in the 13th inning, with Rollins showing he's worth his new contract.

They sure did, and it didn't end here until 2:15 am. :yawn:

I was so tired this morning when I got up for work. At least they won so it was worth it.

The Phils travel to Oakland today to start a 3-game series with the A's.

The A's still your team TRD?

At least it was Friday, PA!

a 6-1win to start the Oakland series, hope they're back to the winning ways!!!

Big win vs the A's tonight, and the Nationals got crushed by Texas 8-1.


Current NL East standings

1. Washington 39-28
2. Philadelphia 38-30, 1 1/2 games behind
3. Atlanta 35-32, 4 games
4. Florida 33-31, 4 1/2 games
5. NY Mets 33-34, 6 games

Although the Phils are still in second place, if the season was to end today they would be the wild-card winner in the National League, they're currently 2 1/2 games over the Cubs.

Yeah the A's are still my team, just havn't had much to cheer about so far this season.

Originally posted by TRD
Yeah the A's are still my team, just havn't had much to cheer about so far this season.

Well they managed to beat the Phillies 2-1 this afternoon in Oakland.

The ironic thing is that the Phillies only run came on the very first pitch of the game, a Jimmy Rollins homerun. They had 9 hits but hit into a bunch of double plays, made some stupid baserunning mistakes and Abreu got thrown out at home plate which would have been the tying run.

Series tied at 1, tomorrow afternoon in Oakland it's Lieber vs Blanton