Phillies drop another to more guys you've never heard of

Written by Mike Mariano | 19 May 2010

Tuesday night, Roy Halladay's gem was wasted in a 2-1 loss at the hands of Zach Duke and the Pirates bullpen who held the Phils to one run.  Last night, more of the same -- a 4-1 loss, this time against Tim Gorzelanny and the Cubs bullpen. Baseball's a funny game like that.  Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Jayson Werth get held down by journeymen starters from time to time.  Sometimes on back to back nights, no less.

To add to the no names giving us fits, the RBIs were driven in by Starlin Castro (the youngest player in the bigs), John Baker, and Xavier Nady (who played for the Mets for god's sake).  3 defensive errors never helps either.  The Phils had a chance after getting strong pitching from Moyer, but Durbin promptly let in 2 runs and extended the game from reach.

All in all the Phils are 6-3 so far this month and still have 3 games up on the rest of the division -- one that's locked in a 3 game differential between the 2nd place Marlins and 5 place Mets.  HA! the 5th place Mets, you've got to love it.  I haven't blogged in two weeks and what do I come back to?  Mets futility.  Amazing comeback, glad to be here.

(by the way, how the hell did we lose to a team sporting this kind of effort? -->)