Phillies 9, Diamondbacks 5Game 100 - Tuesday Night, July 27th in Philadelphia
The Phillies continued their offensive dominance in the 2nd Greg Gross Era, defeating the hapless D-Backs, 9-5. Cole Hamels labored through his 5 innings of work, throwing over 30 pitches in the first inning alone. He left the game with his team trailing, 3-2, after allowing 6 hits, 4 walks and hitting 2 batters. On a positive note, he did manage to strike out 8. The Phillies' pitchers didn't pitch all that well, loading the bases in 4 different innings, but I do believe the Diamondbacks are just that bad.
The Phillies roughed up a succession of Diamondbacks' pitchers, starting with former Phillie Rodrigo Lopez. They made it look easy with three 2-run home runs in consecutive innings - Jayson Werth (14) in the 5th, Ryan Howard (23) in the 6th and Cody Ransom (2) in the 7th. It was Werth's first homer in about a month. Also of note - With 2 more hits tonight out of the 3-hole, Raul Ibañez is now hitting .367 (18 for 49) in his last 18 games.
With the Braves losing tonight, the Phils climbed to within 3½ games of the NL East leaders - the closest they've been since the end of June.
Injury Report: Jimmy Rollins sat out the game with a bruised foot and Shane Victorino left the game in the 7th with a left oblique strain. And the image of Ruben Amaro, Jr. calling Allentown to tell Domonic Brown to drive down to Philly for tomorrow night's game just popped into my head.
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