Lee Outworked By Beckett As Phillies Lose To Red Sox
Josh Beckett pitched 7 2-3 strong innings and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a three-run homer to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
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Josh Beckett pitched 7 2-3 strong innings and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a three-run homer to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
The Phillies beat the Astros 4-3 in extra innings.
Ike Davis hit a three-run homer, Andres Torres also connected and the New York Mets beat the Phillies 10-6 Wednesday night to complete their first three-game sweep in Philadelphia in six years.
The Phillies welcome back Cliff Lee from the disabled list tonight as they look to avoid a sweep at the hands of the New York Mets.
The Phillies are in serious trouble now. The team is not scoring many runs and has had to rely on its pitching. Now it seems to have a pitching problem with the injury to Cliff Lee. The talented left-hander injured his left oblique while pitching ten shut-out innings last week in San Francisco and he has been placed on the fifteen-day disabled list.
The Philadelphia Phillies have placed Cliff Lee on the 15-day disabled list after he strained a muscle in his left side in the 10th inning of his gem Wednesday night at San Francisco.
Cliff Lee threw 10 innings of shutout ball, but the Phillies offense didn't produce a run and Philadelphia lost to the Giants 1-0 in 11 innings.
Phillies fans should relax, the team will be fine.
Cliff Lee allowed one run over four innings in his final Grapefruit League start, and the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves played to a 7-7 tie in nine innings on Sunday.
Before we predict the demise of the Phillies, let's remember that Chase Utley missed nearly two months of the 2011 season and they still won 102 games.
The Phillies settled for a 4-4, 10-inning tie with the the Detroit Tigers in Clearwater, and lost to the New York Yankees 3-0 in Tampa in split-squad games on Sunday.
The Phillies 2012 lineup is set. Not the players, but the team's lineup of promotions and giveaways.
Cliff Lee's first spring start went about as well as it could have, he gave up two hits in two innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 Tuesday.
Cliff Lee will work in a side bullpen session Sunday when Philadelphia's pitchers throw to hitters for the first time in camp.
Cole Hamels sounds like a guy who expects to finish his career in red pinstripes.
Outfielder Ben Francisco was sent north of the border, and in exchange the Phillies have acquired minor league lefthander Frank Gailey.
A team that won a single-season franchise record 102 games, a team everyone assumed would reach the World Series—and win it—saw everything come crashing down in the 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals last Friday in the National League Divisional Series.
An all-or-nothing season in which only a World Series title would be considered a success turned out to be an abysmal failure. The Phillies didn't even make it out of the first round of the NL playoffs.
Will any baseball fan anywhere ever forget that Wednesday night in late September 2011, when another baseball regular schedule was racing to its irregular close?
Chris reflects on the tough weekend in Philadelphia sports, with both the Phillies and Eagles losing their Sunday battles. He also discusses the implications of Chris Christie joining into the Republic Presidential nomination. Also, Pat Ciarrocchi stops by to talk about this year's Light's For A Cure.
After a slow start, the Phillies won the all-important first game of the NLDS. But the page has turned and it's time for game two – a chance for Philadelphia to put a stranglehold on the St. Louis Cardinals.
No team enters this postseason under more pressure than the Philadelphia Phillies. Expectations are so high in the City of Brotherly Love that anything less than a World Series title will be considered a failure by fans, players and management.
The Atlanta Braves took another wrenching loss in their September swoon, squandering an early two-run lead against Cliff Lee as the playoff-bound Philadelphia Phillies rallied for a 4-2 victory Monday night.
Philadelphia's series opener Friday night against the New York Mets was postponed before it started and will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader Saturday—though rain is in the forecast again.
Ross Detwiler outpitched Cliff Lee by tossing 7 1-3 impressive innings and the Washington Nationals beat the NL East champion Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 on Tuesday night to complete a sweep of their day-night doubleheader.
