Ten Runs is a party these days!

Written by Mike Mariano | 09 June 2010

Ah classic Phillies baseball.  Tonight, even if it's only for a night things were back to normal.  The offense was relentless.  The starting pitcher only went five.  We gave up a late inning lead.  Only to come back in the bottom of the eighth.  Then our closer made things reeeeeally interesting.  And we still won.  This is the Phillies baseball I've been used to.

Hardly a perfect win, but these days we'll take what we can get.  This series against San Diego could easily have been a win for the Phillies but time and time again they fell short.  Not tonight -- it was only a matter of time until we ended up on the right end of one of these tight ones.

Guess what, but Ryan Howard is starting to swing the hot bat again and if the past is indication when he heats up, he can carry the whole squad for weeks at a time.  That's exactly the type of thing that we need right now.  Our million-million-million.... dollar man carrying us through hard times.  Then a nice July win streak regaining the division lead.  Okay, let's take it one game at a time -- how strange is this feeling after wins where it's an event to come out on top?  I feel like a Mets fan.

As nice as this win was, it would've been much better if that was Jayson Werth smacking hits and taking a bag instead of Ben Francisco.  Our resident Wolfman lost his swagger, hopefully Charlie gave him a day off so that he could go out and find it.

That was quintessential Brad Lidge, you have got to love it.  I don't care how he does it, he just needs a few saves under his belt to get him going.  If he's crazy as cat shit, oh well we're just going have to deal with his ups and downs he can still pitch.