The Comeback Kids are back.
And they just might have one more setback to overcome.
The Phillies managed to scratch back from three separate deficits last night to post their sixth straight win, a 9-5 win over the Diamondbacks.
The Phils were powered by home runs by Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth and Cody Ransom. The Werth dinger was the right-fielder’s first since June 23. That’s 29 games and a ton of at-bats.
Werth, the focus of persistent trade talks as the swap deadline looms this weekend, appears to finally be coming out of his offensive funk.
That’s a good thing. Because he would end his evening in centerfield after Shane Victorino apparently strained an oblique muscle tracking down a fly ball. Victorino left the game, and Werth slid over in the outfield. The team was already playing short-handed, starting the game without shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who is day-to-day with a sore foot after fouling a ball off his “dog” Monday afternoon.
The Werth trade talks might now be moot; they need him to patrol centerfield, especially if Victorino lands on the disabled list.
The win moves the Phils to within three and a half games of the first-place Braves, who got shut out by the Nationals, even after rookie phenom Stephen Strasburg was scratched from his scheduled start at the last second.
Circle these dates on the calendar: Sept. 20-22. That’s when the Phils and Braves hook up at Citizens Bank Park for the only three games they play each other again this season.
The season might turn on those three dates.
But the Comeback Kids are back.
They keep falling behind. And keep coming back.
They keep losing players to injury. And keep coming back.
Last week they were seven games out. And they keep coming back.
A lot of people counted them out, this blogger included.
They have Roy Halladay going tonight.
Can you say seven in a row?
And they just might have one more setback to overcome.
The Phillies managed to scratch back from three separate deficits last night to post their sixth straight win, a 9-5 win over the Diamondbacks.
The Phils were powered by home runs by Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth and Cody Ransom. The Werth dinger was the right-fielder’s first since June 23. That’s 29 games and a ton of at-bats.
Werth, the focus of persistent trade talks as the swap deadline looms this weekend, appears to finally be coming out of his offensive funk.
That’s a good thing. Because he would end his evening in centerfield after Shane Victorino apparently strained an oblique muscle tracking down a fly ball. Victorino left the game, and Werth slid over in the outfield. The team was already playing short-handed, starting the game without shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who is day-to-day with a sore foot after fouling a ball off his “dog” Monday afternoon.
The Werth trade talks might now be moot; they need him to patrol centerfield, especially if Victorino lands on the disabled list.
The win moves the Phils to within three and a half games of the first-place Braves, who got shut out by the Nationals, even after rookie phenom Stephen Strasburg was scratched from his scheduled start at the last second.
Circle these dates on the calendar: Sept. 20-22. That’s when the Phils and Braves hook up at Citizens Bank Park for the only three games they play each other again this season.
The season might turn on those three dates.
But the Comeback Kids are back.
They keep falling behind. And keep coming back.
They keep losing players to injury. And keep coming back.
Last week they were seven games out. And they keep coming back.
A lot of people counted them out, this blogger included.
They have Roy Halladay going tonight.
Can you say seven in a row?
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