PHILLIES RUMORS & GOSSIP

Roy Oswalt with the Phillies:4-1, 1.89 ERA, 0.986 WHIPCliff Lee with the Rangers:2-5, 4.69 ERA, 1.128 WHIP...and one trip back to Texas to check on his aching back.Because Oswalt has been so good and Lee looks like he's not going to make through the season, I almost forget that horrible, horrible, horrible trade from last winter...--------------------------Tonight's MatchupJhoulys...

Roy Oswalt of the Philadelphia Phillies again had a scoreless performance, and Chase Utley had 3 doubles in one game for a career first. After the 5-1 final, The Phillies remained 3 games behind The Braves, and 1.5 games ahead of The Giants.This is shaping up as 3 teams for 2 spots with The Pads and Cards in free fall, which means that all 3 teams could hit the playoffs unless San...

Once again it is collaborative post time here on Call to the Pen. This month’s topic is September call-ups. To get the ball rolling, I posed the following question to each of our Lead Writers, “Which player do you want your team to call-up in September and why?” It is a simple question but I think you will find the responses to be very diverse. Taking the path less traveled...

The Phillies have become the Jim and Pam of baseball.  Will they?  Won’t they?  Is it too late in the series for anybody to care?  Would this make Greg Dobbs Ryan the temp?  Or one of those season one cast members that just evaporated once the other characters had established themselves? Don’t kid yourself.  You tune in every week for the high stakes and intense...

When Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Shane Victorino were on the disabled list, the Phillies were forced to turn to a lineup stocked with bench players. Domonic Brown, though inexperienced, was a significant part of that spark that the bench provided. Since Victorino returned to the team, Brown has become a nonfactor. He has been [...]

Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies launched a 3-run missile to the deepest part of the park with his opposite-field swing in the 8-4 victory. The Phillies remained 3 games behind The Braves, and 1.5 games in front of The Giants. The Cards, however, are falling out of contention in both their division and the wild card.

The one good thing about almost being no-hit, is that the next game, you know you can't do any worse. That may not have been exactly what the Phillies were thinking going into tonight's ballgame, but they were certainly thinking something optimistic. The Phillies went into the game down 3.5 games out of the NL East, fresh off an Atlanta win. However, this did not scare...

In case you’d forgotten, home runs are fun. The Phillies hit two of them tonight, one from Ryan Howard, the other from catcher Brian Schneider in the Phillies 8-4 win. Both bombs were of the three-run variety, the first time that’s happened since June 29. Howard hit provided his first extra-base hit since July 27. Schneider gave the Phillies fans something to cheer about...

How is Kyle Kendrick already pitching again?  I feel like it was just a few days ago that I was silently chewing mouthfuls of a giant sandwich while staring menacingly at the TV as Kyle slowly but surely allowed another one of his patented disaster innings bleed into a Phillies loss. And yeah, maybe my caffeine intake is “dangerously high,” and my hours of sleep every...

Today, I got the opportunity to write a guest post over on Yahoo! Sports’ great baseball blog, Big League Stew. ‘Duk and the gang let post a follow-up to yesterday’s post by Alex Remington that the Braves would make the postseason. I felt the need to back up our fair team, even though last night may not have been the perfect time (or maybe it was, who knows). Here...

Lean, wiry, and projectable, his appearance draws ones eye almost immediately. After watching him play, I wonder just how much of a mulligan he receives simply because he resembles Domonic Brown? Is he a prospect? Most definitely, but the comparisons to baseball's best prospect are, in my opinion, amongst the laziest in the industry.

This question is actually unanswerable, as the broadcast cut away from the dugout in order to show something much less important (a Raúl Ibáñez at-bat) than the Mike Sweeney Hug Parade. But we do have photographic evidence of no less than four hugs after Sweeney’s first homer as a Phillie Sunday afternoon, of (clockwise from top left) Jayson Werth, Jimmy Rollins, bench...

During the 2008 season it seemed Brad Lidge was unstoppable. And he pretty much was. He converted all 41 save opportunities during the regular season as well as seven more in the postseason. Lidge always found ways to get the job done. Now a days he is content on finding ways to blow the save. Lidge entered the game in the ninth after Roy Oswalt (9-13, 3.12) pitched an incredible...

Not only did the Philadelphia Phillies end their four-game losing streak after defeating the San Diego Padres 3-2 in 12 innings on Friday, but Ryan Howard reached a new milestone—although it’s not one to be proud of. Howard finished Friday’s game 1 for 5 with a single and four strikeouts. He entered the game with 997 career strikeouts—meaning he has officially crossed the...

Traditionally a right-handed pitcher, Roy Oswalt went above the call of duty on Tuesday evening against his old teammates. In the bottom of the 14th inning, Ryan Howard was ejected from the game which forced Raul Ibanez to move to first base and Oswalt took over left field. Check out the video: $('#myplayer201008242213').jwplayer({ flashplayer:'http://blog.prorumors...