Cole Hamels was dealing early against the Boston Red Sox today, but it wasn’t to last. After keeping the Bo Sox off the board for the first 3 1/3 innings, Adrian Gonzalez stepped into the box and dealt a blow to Hamels. Not on the scoreboard, but rather to the hand. A line drive, bullet back through the box struck Hamels on his non-pitching hand. Hamels was able to stay in to complete the inning, but not the game. He was pulled after the 4th inning with what the Phillies are calling a hand contusion. X-Rays on the hand were reported back to be negative, and Cole is listed as day-to-day. He is expected to make his next start.
While this is good news for the Phillies in the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t for today’s match up. David Herndon came in relief, (if you want to call what he does relief) and promptly gave up 2 runs. In the next inning, Herndon continued to struggle, giving up a solo shot that barely made it over the right field wall to Jason Varitek, which allowed the Red Sox to go up 3-0. In the top of the seventh, Andrew Carpenter came in to pitch. He let the first two he faced get on to create a 1st and 3rd with no outs situation, but struck out the next two, and induced a pop up against a pinch hitting JD Drew to get out of the inning unscathed. Here in lies the best part of the game, listening to the round of boos that JD Drew still receives from the Phillies Phaithful.
For Boston, the pitching story was completely different. John Lester was dealing from the first inning on. He didn’t allow a hit until the fourth, a single by Chase Utley, and only allowed one more for the rest of his outing. The only real jam that Lester got into came in the bottom of the seventh when he allowed a one out single to Ryan Howard and a walk to Shane Victorino. With two on, and down three, the Phillies were threatening to put something together, but only threatening. Ben Francisco lined out to center, and Raul Ibanez struck out swinging to end the inning, the chance to score, and John Lester’s outing. Lester ended with a line of 7IP, 2H, 0R, 0ER, 2BB, and 5K to earn the W.
The rest of the game was really a formality. The Phillies had the wind out of their sails. Carpenter gave up back-to-back home runs, (which was nearly back-to-back-to-back home runs) and the Phillies were down 5-0 against the Bo Sox. The offense for the Phillies went quietly in the eighth, but managed to break up the shut out in the ninth compliments of a 2 run homer off the bat of Ryan Howard. The Red Sox would go on to record the win and avoid the sweep. So, the Phillies went down easier today then a stripper at a Duke Lacrosse party, (too soon?) but managed to take two out of three from the Bean Eaters. It’s all about winning the series in baseball, so while a sweep would have been nice, we’ll take the series win. The Phillies head north of the border next, for a three game series against the Toronto Blue Jays to close out inner league play.
SW-Ian Anderson
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