Phillies Baseball

Jayson Werth has been on fire lately after taking over the full-time spot in right field when Geoff Jenkins was placed on the disabled list last week.

Werth homered twice in the Phillies 5-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday, giving him 20 on the season. Werth becomes the fourth Phillie to hit 20 or more homeruns in 2008. The others are Ryan Howard (37), Chase Utley (31), and Pat Burrell (30).

Werth, heading into Sunday’s game, has also picked up 53 RBIs.

On Sunday, Werth laced a two-out double down the left field line, scoring two runs, and giving the Phillies an early 3-0 lead in the first inning. He now has 55 RBIs on the season.

Werth has played well all season long but has really stepped up his game since taking over in right field for the injured Jenkins. As of the third inning on Sunday, Werth is now hitting .280 in 2008.

In the top of the fifth, Werth cranked his 21st homerun of the season to deep left field…almost out of the ballpark. It was his 56th RBI too.

The Phillies built up a 5-1 lead on Saturday afternoon and actually held on to it this time.

They came away with a 5-2 win over the league leading Cubs to at least keep pace with the Mets in the race for the East division title.

J.C. Romero came into the game in the bottom of the 8th to relieve Myers with two on and no one out. He wound up striking out the side. Continue Reading »

Thursday night was one to forget for the Phillies and their bullpen.

Starter Cole Hamels went seven strong innings, allowing only one run, but for the secons straight night the bullpen blew the lead in the late innings.

The Mets had the night off which meant that a win for the Phils would have tied them for first place in the NL East. Continue Reading »

The Phillies announced earlier this afternoon that they have reassigned right hander Andrew Carpenter to Reading and have recalled lefty reliever Fabio Castro from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.

Carpenter pitched one scoreless inning in his Major League debut against the Mets last night at Citizens Bank Park in the Phillies 6-3 loss.

He had a 9-11 record at two minor league levels in the organization. Continue Reading »

The Phillies lost a tough one to the Mets Wednesday after such a hard fought victory on Tuesday night.

Leading 3-2 in the eighth their vaunted bullpen imploded, allowing 4 runs, enabling the Mets to win 6-3 and regain first place by .5 games.

Rudy Seanez took the loss. He got the first two outs of the inning then allowed a game tying homerun to Carlos Delgado, his second of the game and 30th of the season.

The Phillies were up 3-1 on starter Johan Santana but after the two homeruns they hit the club stopped scoring and couldn’t get anything off one of the ugliest bullpens in the league.

The Phils open up a four game set with the Cubs at Wrigley Field tonight. Cole Hamels takes on Ryan Dempster at 8pm eastern time. Continue Reading »