When the Phillies game started last night I was waiting to pick up a huge order of wings for my fantasy football draft. The Phils game was on and Pedro throws his first pitch and Eugenio Velez agreed with it and sent it over the wall. 1-0 Giants after 1 pitch. People at the bar were started to bad mouth Pedro and it wasn't looking good for the former Cy Young winner. Pedro answered and he answered in a big way. That would be the only run he let up all night in a 7 inning gem. Martinez struck out 9, didn't walk any batters and only allowed 5 hits for the game and got his 3rd win to improve to 3-0. Pedro's fastball was hitting the low 90's on the radar gun and was mixing up his pitches nicely with the changeup. Tim Lincecum the ace and possibly the best pitcher in the National League had his ace game last night as well. Lincecum struck out 11 batters in 7 innings and only allowed 4 hits, 2 earned. One of those runs was a solo home run by Jayson Werth in the 2nd inning who now has 30 homers on the year. Later on Ryan Howard doubled to knock in the go ahead run during the 6th inning to put the Fightins up 2-1. Chase Utley was the one that scored after he was hit in the back by Lincecum's fastball. Ryan Madson closed out the 8th inning and Brad Lidge did his job and got the save for the Phils. It was a pitching duel last night in South Philly and had that playoff atmosphere feel just like it did the past 2 nights as the Phillies could possibly be lined up to face either San Fran or Colorado in the 1st round of the playoffs. The Phillies still hold a 7.5 game lead in the NL East as the season keeps winding down with a record of 76-54 and 32 games left to play. Our World Series Champs head to Houston for a 4 game series with the Astros and Cliff Lee(5-1) will take the mound against Wandy Rodriguez(12-9) tonight.
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