Victory! Phillies 9, Astros 6

by David S. Cohen on Apr 10, 2010 11:56 PM EDT

The Phillies are now 4-1 for the first time since 1993. That's all well and good, but let's hope this season doesn't end that way and is more like the 2008 season in which they started 2-3.

Jamie Moyer had an awful third inning but got the win thanks to the bizarre accounting system Major League Baseball uses to assign wins to pitchers. But hey, after half a century in the big leagues, Moyer's not complaining about those rules.

Nor will he complain about an offense that put up double-digit hits for the fifth straight game and that scored 9 runs. Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth, and Shane Victorino each drove in 3 runs, and Jimmy Rollins got another walk, giving him 7 on the season. He didn't have that many last year until mid-May.

As we've said before, this is a very easy game when you score like the Phillies do. Time to finish the Astros off with a sweep tomorrow. With Roy Halladay pitching, I like our chances.

Discuss as you wish.

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Comments

Moyer in the bigs for half a century?

Priceless

Scar tissue is stronger than muscle tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

by JCB79 on Apr 11, 2010 12:04 AM EDT reply actions

Astros

Finish them Roy!!!!

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 11, 2010 12:33 AM EDT reply actions

This guy

You know, Ed, if I thought you weren’t my friend, I just don’t think I could bear it.

plus these

equals this

by j reed on Apr 11, 2010 1:10 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

you sir are a master of mathematical equations and calculations. can you teach me you’re mysterious ways?

Scar tissue is stronger than muscle tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

by JCB79 on Apr 11, 2010 7:24 AM EDT up reply actions

E.T. Egyptian Calculus

by j reed on Apr 11, 2010 7:38 AM EDT up reply actions

this is pretty funny.

I wasn't even a year old but I stayed up to be outside the Vet with my Dad and Mom when the Phillies won the World Series 1980.

by Christopher A on Apr 11, 2010 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions

BOOM goes the rec!

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 11, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Victory!

I had the chance to watch this game on MLB Extra Innings – a free trial weekend. Very strange game, with Moyer unable to get 8 straight batters with two out in the third … and ending up with the win, of course. I thought Manuel showed a lot of faith in the offense when he allowed Moyer to bat in the top of the 6th with two outs and a man on base, down a run. It seemed like he was saying, “I know we’re going to get at least two more runs, so why bother pinch-hitting.” Howard’s homer was majestic to watch and it seemed to take the energy out of the Astros TV team, who are having a hard time finding nice things to say about the Astros.
Just a note to say hi to everyone on the Good Phight. My old computer died last month and the new one arrived today. I look forward to checking in regularly.

by phillyinportland on Apr 11, 2010 2:56 AM EDT reply actions

To echo what’s probably been said many times before, it’s fitting that the guy who beats the Astros on the night that they celebrate their 1965 re-christening is the only guy in the league who might have been old enough to remember it. :)

by RaptorLC on Apr 11, 2010 5:19 AM EDT reply actions

by phatj on Apr 11, 2010 9:03 AM EDT reply actions

I refuse to get too excited about this team/offense until they play a quality opponent. But OK I’m pretty excited.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on Apr 11, 2010 9:23 AM EDT reply actions

I have to agree. But ass whipping bad teams is always fun. The other teams liked it when it was us years ago.

I wasn't even a year old but I stayed up to be outside the Vet with my Dad and Mom when the Phillies won the World Series 1980.

by Christopher A on Apr 11, 2010 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions

To see the team rebound from giving up a 5-spot (including Moyer) was miraculous. I realize it was only a 2 run deficit, but still, it was late in the game.

by Bilzo on Apr 11, 2010 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions

Given previous starts, I’ll take what I can get.

by Aphilfan on Apr 11, 2010 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions

I didn’t watch the game, I had to listen but I caught the highlights…pretty cool when the grounds crew came out in space suits….just fits with the whole Wally World amusement/putt-putt mini-golf theme of the league’s lamest ball park. I wish they had the Creamsilce unis on though. Talk about needing a Project Runaway bitch slap is the brain child of this fashion vomit:

by j reed on Apr 11, 2010 10:16 AM EDT reply actions

the color stripes did match the colors of the seats within the Astrodome, which also was the so-called 8th wonder of the world at the time…indoor baseball was very innovative at the time, as was space flight. The unis went to the extreme in the softballization of traditional unis, but they certainly weren’t alone. And, lest we forget, fireworks scoreboards, etc, was part of an organizational promotional team that included Bill Giles.

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 11, 2010 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions