Phillies 2, Cardinals 1 (10 Innings)Game 26 - Tuesday Night, May 4th in Philadelphia
The Phils won in dramatic fashion tonight, thanks to a walk-off solo home run in the 10th inning from Carlos Ruiz. (As I'm writing this, Chooch was double-pied during his post-game interview by Shane Victorinio and Greg Dobbs.)
Maybe Cole Hamels read my blog post from earlier today and got fired up when I referred to him as young Colbert? It's extremely doubtful, but something certainly flipped his switch as Hamels dominated the Cardinals tonight. Through the first 6 innings, Hamels and Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright traded scoreless frames. The Cards had managed 6 hits, while the Phils had just 3. Cole's performance was particularly impressive against the mighty Albert Pujols. Pujols went 0 for 4 against Hamels, including a key pop-up in the 5th with Cardinal runners on 1st and 2nd.
In the bottom of the 7th, Raul Ibañez led off with a triple to center and was brought home on a sacrifice fly from Carlos Ruiz. In the top of the 9th, the Cardinals tied it up when David Freese and Yadier Molina started the inning with back-to-back doubles. Hamels exited to a standing ovartion, Brad Lidge and his effective slider entered, and the game went briefly to extra innings.
On the 5th pitch of the bottom of the 10th, Carlos Ruiz sent a deep fly ball just into the left field stands and the Phils were victorious.
Let's hope Hamels is "back".
ReplyDeleteI like the double pie in the face.
ReplyDeleteWay to go Mr. Hammels
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