Last night was a heartbreaking loss for the Fightins as the Braves went ahead in the 11th inning with 3 runs to win the game 6-3. Raul Ibanez started the game off with a 2 deep run blast but the Phils could only muster 1 more run in the 7th and total only 3 hits for the night. Only 3 hits.
Matt Diaz hit a double in the 11th, knocking in a run followed by a Eric Hinske 2 run homer for the Braves. When pitchers like David Herndon and Mike Zagurski are on the hill things like this usually happen. But lets back track to the 7th inning when Ibanez walked to start the inning off. Ryan Howard then hit a stand up triple to score Ibanez and tie the game with no outs. The was the end of the night for Jurrjens who pitched a solid game. Up next was Jayson Werth who struck out looking at 5 pitches by Peter Moylan. Then Jonny Venters retired Ben Fransisco and got Wilson Valdez to hit into a ground out. Charlie Manuel was upset after the game by that at bat from Werth. "I don't think you can hit if you don't swing. You got to score there. You have a man on third with nobody out, you have to score period." A little more tension between the skipper and the pending free agent outfielder.
The Braves bullpen shut down the Phillies the rest of the game and just needed to wait for the Phillies bullpen to implode to score some runs. Up next Jamie Moyer goes for his 10th win of the season and try and win the series for the Phillies tonight.
Some extra notes from last night, Ruben Amaro said the Phillies will not call up Domonic Brown to be a bench player. "You bring him up when he is ready to be an everyday player."
There could be some mixed signals there with rumors now of Jayson Werth being on the trade market because the Phillies won't be able to resign him this offseason.
It's never boring with this team.....
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