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The Phillies were all over the Indians yesterday, capitalizing on defense miscues by Cleveland and hammering the ball around the yard as they won by nine runs to complete a three-game sweep. The Phils are on a roll, winners of six of their last eight. Jayson Werth came into the series 12-for-his-last-71 (.169) [...] - [Read more]

It took a day, but the Phillies got the spark they were looking for from Jimmy Rollins. If J-Roll’s first eight at-bats after returning from the DL didn’t wow a whole lot of folks his ninth sure did. With the Phils down a run in the ninth, Rollins hammered a 1-1 offering from [...] - [Read more]

The Phillies got Jimmy Rollins back in the lineup last night, but it was a guy who has been here all along that did the heavy lifting as the Phils topped the Cleveland Indians 2-1. Jamie Moyer was fantastic, holding Cleveland to a run on two hits over eight innings. The lack of offense from [...] - [Read more]

Things were looking really good through most of the first two games of this weekend’s series between the Phillies and the Twins. The Phils scored nine runs in game one as they rolled to a 9-5 win. They were on the brink of another victory in game two when things took a dramatic [...] - [Read more]

Two in a row for the struggling Phils, who suddenly look sharp. Two great starts in two games from Moyer and Kendrick, but even more than that it was the defense that offered some hope we may be about to get the Philadelphia Phillies back. Polanco had the most spectacular play, battling the [...] - [Read more]

Coming off just about the ugliest start you can imagine, Jamie Moyer bounced back last night to hold the Yankees to a pair of runs on three hits over eight innings as the Phils got a much-needed win in New York. As bad as things have been, though, it’s going to take more than [...] - [Read more]

Coming off several recent starts in which he pitched well and the Phillies lost anyway, Halladay flipped the script a bit last night by not pitching well in a loss. The Yankees were all over him in New York, hitting three home runs as they scored six times in six innings. The Phils [...] - [Read more]

How about Chase Utley? The Phils are on pace to go 85-77 this season and finish third in the NL East. If they continue to score and allow runs at the pace they have through the first 61 games of the season, they will score 722, almost a hundred runs fewer than they did in [...] - [Read more]

The ten runs the Phillies scored against Florida Tuesday night sure looked like a sign they were about to come out of their long, miserable offensive funk. Maybe they are, but last night they looked just as bad as they did scoring three runs or less in 13 of 15 games. Josh Johnson baffled the [...] - [Read more]

Ben Francisco made up for a mostly miserable game last night with one big swing. His two-run single off of Taylor Tankersley in the bottom of the eighth put the Phils ahead to stay and raised hopes that the long offensive funk the Phils have been in may finally be coming to an end. The [...] - [Read more]

There’s something wrong with the Phillies. Not sure what it is, but lack of talent surely isn’t the problem. Whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to be having much an impact on Cole Hamels. Hamels took a no-hitter into the seventh last night. He didn’t get it and the Phillies didn’t [...] - [Read more]

The Phillies showed some life in the first two games of their four-game set with the Padres, but yet another weak start from Blanton and a big out they gave away on the bases in the bottom of the tenth cost them yesterday. Tonight they’ll look for another win as they try to take [...] - [Read more]

At least in Groundhog Day they had cake. And Andie MacDowell. The Phillies games are apparently stuck in a loop. They lost again yesterday. No terrible defense this time and Kendrick pitched well, but the Phils scored one run and it wasn’t enough. In the very limited good news category, [...] - [Read more]

The Phillies can’t hit, can’t field and can’t win. Those are all big problems, but just part of the challenge faced by this year’s Phils. The other part is that the Atlanta Braves are just good and have been for a while. The Braves looked a whole lot better than the Phils [...] - [Read more]

The Phillies miserable skid may not be over, but at least May finally is. The Phils went 2-7 to end the month and scored ten runs in those nine games while being shut out five times. The nosedive has now cost them the lead in the division to good Atlanta team. Not [...] - [Read more]

The Phillies sent one of the best offensive teams in baseball to New York for a three-game set and scored exactly as many runs as they would have if they had sent the Peanuts Gang. And those guys are fictional. There’s simply no good news for the offense these days as last night [...] - [Read more]

I think the minus one contingent has come up with some exciting ideas that shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. The Phillies simply aren’t scoring runs these days. That trend continued last night as they were shut out by the Mets. Over the last four games, Ross Gload has driven in 67% of the runs [...] - [Read more]

New York’s RA Dickey is the latest hurler to stump the Phils. Dickey tossed six shutout innings last night as the Mets pounded the Phils 8-0. In their last three games the Phillies have been shut out twice and nearly no-hit once. In the other game they were shut out through eight [...] - [Read more]

It looks like ugly has gone and flipped on us again. With the exception of a really nice start from Cole Hamels, not much went well for the Phillies this weekend against the Boston Red Sox. Kendrick and Halladay both had ugly outings, with Halladay’s start particularly worrisome given his recent pitch counts. [...] - [Read more]

If we can just get ugly on our side once and for all I think everything should be fine. It took more than one player to get the Phils into their mini-skid. It wasn’t particularly pretty, but yesterday it took more than one to pull them out of it. Jimmy Rollins, moved down in the order [...] - [Read more]