Phillies Baseball

The Phillies added three more players following Monday’s loss to the Washington Nationals.

With these three September callups, the Phillies now have added seven players to their Major League roster for the stretch run.

The three added on Monday have all spent time in Philadelphia this season.

They are infielders Andy Tracy and Mike Cervenak and left handed pitcher Les Walrond. The Phillies now have four left handed pitchers in their bullpen. That should be enough arms to spell J.C. Romero and Scott Eyre for the rest of the season.

In other news, newly acquired infielder/outfielder Matt Stairs made his Phillies debut on Monday, starting in right field.

Jayson Werth was moved to left field to spell the struggling Pat Burrell for one day.

Burrell was back in the lineup on Tuesday night against the Nationals and left hander John Lannan.

The Phillies announced on Sunday, following their 5-3 win over the Cubs, that the team had added four players for the stretch run.

With the roster expansion, teams can expand their roster from 25 players to 40 players. 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 »