Your Phillies have advanced to the team’s first World Series in 15 years with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2008 National League Championship Series.
The Phillies’ starter Cole Hamels held the Dodgers to one run over seven innings as the Phils beat the Dodgers in the best-of-seven series 4-1.
This Phillies await the winner of the ALCS, where the Tampa Bay Rays hold a 3-1 lead over the Boston Red Sox.
Who cares? The Phillies win the pennant - the Phillies win the pennant.
Dallas has acquired a pretty-damn good wide receiver named Roy Williams from the Detroit Lions for a first, third and sixth-round pick in 2009.
Hell yeah that sounds like a awful lot to give up - but why not? Wide receivers of this cat’s quality don’t come around that often and when they do they usually are a Mars-sized head case.
While I am on the fence about this deal because of the price, the line that the Eagles don’t need wide receivers is a crock of junk. Deshawn Jackson is the answer? No way.
Williams’ best season was 2006, when he went to the Pro Bowl after catching 82 passes for 1,310 yards and seven touchdowns. He has 17 catches for 232 yards and a score this season for the winless Lions.
He has 262 career catches for 3,884 yards with 29 touchdowns and will join Terrell Owens (23 receptions), Patrick Crayton (19), tight end Jason Whitten (39) and running back Marion Barber (25)
In totally underwhelming Eagles news…
The team signed linebacker Tracy White today.
Who?
White had been with the Green Bay Packers since 2006, but he was released on October 7. In five games this season, he has four tackles.
In a corresponding move, the Eagles released running back Tony Hunt. A third-round pick in 2007, Hunt had just four carries this season for nine yards and a touchdown.
Pascal Dupuis scored on a slap shot with 10.8 seconds left in overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Flyers 3-2 tonight.
Dupuis, skating along the boards, took Brooks Orpik’s pass, then let go of a shot that beat Antero Niittymaki to the glove side.
The Flyers, despite getting goals from Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne in the final minute of the second period, are 0-3 for the first time since the labor dispute-shortened 1995 season.
The Phillies beat the Dodgers tonight 7-5 to take a sweet three games to one lead in the National League Championship game. With an off day tomorrow tonight, looks like we’ll all get a break from the madness.
It was the first time the visiting team has won a game in 12 meetings between the teams this year.
Two batters after Shane Victorino hit a game-tying two-run homer, Matt Stairs put his beautiful gut into two-run, pinch-hit homer to get the Phillies to within one game of its first World Series appearance since 1993.
Cole Hamels will take the hill Wednesday night in Game 5. He’ll be opposed by Game 2 loser Chad Billingsley.
I am all about this team winning tonight because I have officially had enough with these Dodgers fans. I really think they are being loud just for being loud’s sake. I know it sounds insane, but I think they are shouting at the top of their lungs just to try to beat out the passion that the Phillies’ fans bring to the table.
Pat Burrell, Chase Utley and the Phillies led the Phillies over the Dodgers in the NL championship series opener.
Utley and Burrell hit home runs off Derek Lowe in the sixth inning to back another monster performance by ace Cole Hamels, as the Phillies 3-2 last night.
“It feels great, but you can’t get too caught up in this,” Burrell said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do.”
Game 2 is this afternoon in Philadelphia, with Phillies right-hander Brett Myers facing Dodgers righty Chad Billingsley.
Dodger’s closer Takashi Saito has been left off the team’s NLCS roster.
Saito’s spot on the roster will be taken by left-handed reliever Hong-Chih Kuo, who having just returned from the disabled list and has pitched in only one game over the past month.
We all know the Phillies lefty arsenal is weak against fellow southpaws, but going into the Championship without this guy? Saito allowed base hits to each of the three batters he faced in Game 2 of the NLDS against the Cubbies.
Pat Burrell hit two home runs and collected four RBIs, while Jimmy Rollins and Jayson Werth added solo drives Sunday to lead the Phillies to a 6-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers that clinched their first trip to the NLCS since 1993.
“You want to be a part of it and help your team,” Burrell said. “It [the first home run] couldn’t have come at a better time.”
Joe Blanton continued the Phillies pitching prowess - he held the Brewers to only one run.
Rollins got the Phillies started with a leadoff bomb and the Phillies won the best-of-five series three games to one, earning a shot at the Dodgers - with home field advantage - in the NLCS.
Brett Myers took it to the Brewers tonight allowing two runs and two hits in seven innings and beat Milwaukee and the Goliath CC Sabathia 5-2 behind - wait for it - a Shane Victorino grand slam.
“He threw me a slider,” Victorino said. “He provided most of the power but I put a good swing on it and it left the park.”
The sellout crowd of 46,208 — the largest in the five-year history of Citizens Bank Park — went insane and brought Victorino out for a curtain call.
The Phillies have a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five NL Divisional series. Woot!
Myers was masterful on the mound and kicked ass at the plate giving Sabathia all he could take. Excellent game all around - too many men left on base (10) is my only complaint.
Cole Hamels pitched eight very strong innings and Brad Lidge scared the junk out of us all in the ninth-inning as the Phillies defeated Milwaukee 3-1 in the opening game of the 2008 MLB playoffs.
Hamels tossed a hell of a game. However, the Phillies’ bats were dormant for most of the game with scoring only happening in the third inning. With C.C. Sabathia on the hill for the Brewers tomorrow night, the Phillies are going to need a much better approach at the plate.
Otherwise, the game will be an absolute bloodbath.
