All I needed to send me to sleep last night was Joe Blanton walking the first batter in the bottom of the 5th, right after the Phillies had rallied for a 4-2 lead. A lot more happened (Roy Oswalt getting the loss, for one) but all in all it was an ugly game and the Phillies, as they have done all along at AT&T Park, did nothing to help themselves. Instead, they are letting the Giants outplay them--and play them right out of the series.
So it's down to Roy Halladay tonight, another top pitcher with an inexplicably bad record against a mediocre offensive team. The stars are against a win! Poor guy. The Cliff Lee debate is no doubt raging already in Philadelphia, fueled in part by a weird ESPN report that Lee has Philadelphia at the top of his wish list. Puh-leeze. Why would anyone believe that?
