Phillies Drop Another To Blue Jays, 7-5
The Phillies lost to the Blue Jays, 7-5.
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The Phillies lost to the Blue Jays, 7-5.
Jose Bautista hit a long home run off Roberto Hernandez three batters into the game, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 Wednesday in rain-shortened spring training opener for both teams.
Apropos of nothing, aside from baseball being back, here is a Jayson Werth photo from Washington Nationals photo day. Werth is looking like the newest member of WWE's Wyatt Family.
The Phillies newest regular color analysts for television broadcasts bring back memories of the team's last World Series title in 2008. They're adding a little 1980 flavor to it as well.
The Phillies won only 73 games in 2013. One sports book thinks they'll be better this year, just not by much.
Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation. No one hoped or expected that the 2013 Phillies would end the season 20 games under .500, that's the bad situation. Reliever Jake Diekman found a way to make the best of it.
Major League Baseball and its players have banned most home plate collisions but left open an exception if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runner's direct path to home plate.
If you ever stay up late, or wake up very early, chances are you've seen the commercial for the "Bacon Bowl." The bacon bowl is a bowl, made of bacon. This exists because people love bacon. That brings us to the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.
As the temperatures get back to frigid in Philadelphia this week, the Phillies will officially begin their Grapefruit League schedule in Florida.
Baseball's new guidelines regarding home plate collisions will be released on Monday.
Roy Halladay is a guest instructor with the Philadelphia Phillies for a few weeks this spring.
Bobby Abreu is certain he still has a lot to offer a major league team — even if he's a few weeks shy of 40.
The Phillies accused one of their draft picks of hiring an agent, and that player's college career is now in limbo, according to a report.
The addition of AJ Burnett to the Phillies pitching staff changes the complexion of the entire starting rotation. Burnett, as a legitimate number three starter, puts the rest of the rotation in a place where they don't have to produce more than they're accustomed to.
To say Jonathan Papelbon's time as Phillies closer has been rocky would be an understatement. His performance has been inconsistent, and his comments before and after games have drawn some ire from Phillies fans as well.
