The Philadelphia Phillies won the opening game of their series with the Marlins on Tuesday night 7-3. Their record improves to 5-9.
On The Mound
- Jerome Williams put together a decent start, allowing three runs over six innings.
- Williams allowed eight hits, including one homer, and struck out six.
- Luis Garcia struck out two in a scoreless seventh.
- Ken Giles pitched a scoreless eighth.
- Jonathan Papelbon ended the game with a scoreless ninth.
At The Plate
- The Phillies scored seven runs on seven hits.
- Ryan Howard was the catalyst for tonight’s win, going 2-3 with a walk and a two-run homer in the sixth inning to give the Phillies the lead.
- Ben Revere got a start in left and went 1-3 with a two-run triple in the seventh inning.
- Carlos Ruiz went 0-3 with a walk.
- Grady Sizemore started in left and went 0-3.
- Freddy Galvis went 1-3 with a two-run homer.
- Jeff Fracoeur recorded a pinch-hit double.
- Chase Utley still can’t buy a hit on credit, going 0-3 though he did drive in a run.
- Odubel Herrera went 1-4 and scored a run.
Final Thoughts
A Ryan Howard sighting!
14 games into the season, Howard finally hit his first home run, and he
Howard has dealt with a lot, and it’s been tough to watch him go through his struggles. It was nice see him not only hit a big home run that turned out to be the difference in the game, but put together a solid all-around game at the plate.
Howard reached base in each of his first three plate appearances, and didn’t give away any at-bats. He’s been a streaky player throughout his career, so it will be interesting to see if he can carry over tonight’s play to tomorrow’s game.
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Unfortunately Howard won’t do this on a nightly basis anymore. Chase looks dreadful out there. He went 0-3 and had 2 really bad strike outs.
Credit to the bullpen. As long as the starter goes 6 innings and gives up less than 4 runs then we have a shot at winning. Giles-Papelbon 1-2 punch is pretty fun to watch dominate the end of a game.
7 runs!!!!!? The most we’ve scored in a game all year. Whooopie!!
It’s annoying that there’s not more speculation of why Ryan Howard is forced to play musical chairs in the batting line up sheet while Chase Utley isn’t. Is Sandberg drinking the Chipper juice these days? I hope not?