PNC is a charming park. Too bad that the only times it sells out are on opening day and fireworks nights. Joe Blanton pitched well in game one on Monday but we know how that ended. I had a ticket for game two, which matched Roy Halladay with Randy Wolfe, but I was unable to go. And it was an awful game on another raw night. In the end, Halladay got roughed up for six runs and the Phillies mustered just two hits in a 9-0 drubbing. Ryan Braun was a one-man wrecking crew.
As Wednesday's matinee (Lee vs. Narveson) was starting, I was entering the first of the mountain tunnels heading west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And radio reception faded. Amazingly, there was no station all the way out to Pittsburgh giving the scores, until I found the local version of KYW and learned that the game was tied e courtesy of a Placido Polanco three-run homer. Only much later did I hear that Shane Victorino had provided the go-ahead run via an eighth inning solo shot. With the 4-3 win, the Phillies avoided the sweep, though not their first series loss.
