Unfortunately on this team that makes him not too bad.
Thanks for the deluxe GDT!
Pleasure. Wish I had the time (and motivation, now) to do it every day, but that doesn't seem to be happening right now...
Good things happening already!
Galvis with a triple and Altherr with an RBI groundout.
And Mark Leiter just got his first major league hit!
Herrera nails Ianetta trying to advance to 3rd on a fly out.
I'm sure not much is expected of Mark Leiter, but you've gotta admit, it's much more fun watching the young guys than it was a couple years ago watching the Sean O'Sullivan's and Kevin Corriea's.
End of 5 innings, Phillies hold a 1-0 lead. Leiter 5IP, 3H, 0R, 1BB, 5K.
I agree, I love seeing the young players getting a chance.
After 7 full innings:Phillies 1-8-0Diamondbacks 0-4-0
Leiter goes 6 innings, 3 hits, 1 walk, 5 Ks. Quality start plus!!Neshek pitches the 7th. Faced 4, one single, 3 Ks.
Quality start plus a base hit!
No doubt a good game for Leiter.
Franco home run in 8th gives Phillies a 2-0 lead.
Benoit in to pitch the 8th for the Phillies.
Dare I watch?
Franco with an opposite field solo HR in the 8th. Benoit now pitching in the bottom of the 8th.
I figure it is safe to watch until the tieing run reaches the batters box, then you might as well figure it will be at least tied.
Well I guess we will soon see if I was correct or not as the lead off batter hits a bouncer over the pitchers head and even though Blanco fielded it he had no play.
After a K, a triple makes it 2-1. Runner on third, one out.
Galvis' glove saves the Phils' once again.
an rbi triple plates the first run for the Dbacks and puts the tieing run at third with 1 out
After a Goldschmidt walk, Benoit K's Lamb swinging to end the 8th.
Phillies up 2-1 after 8 innings.
Kudos to Benoit for getting out a couple of very tough hitters.
Rupp with 2 hits on the day, nice to see.
Joseph with a 2 run home run in a 4 run ninth, Phils lead 6-1. Bullpen will have to try really hard to blow this one.
Top of the 9th started with the Rupp single and a pinch hit ground rule double by Kendrick. Perkins with sac fly to right followed by Galvis reaching on an error (E6). Joseph with the 2 run home run added the icing to the cake. At least I hope it's icing.
Two game winning streak!
