Roy Oswalt went just six innings, throwing 91 pitches. I guess the back is not yet well. The Phillies took an early 2-0 lead, then the Mets came back, eventually to take a 3-2 lead. The Phillies tied it in the eighth when Domonic Brown singled and stole second, letting Jimmy Rollins single him in. In the ninth, the Phillies got three more off of closer Francisco Rodriguez, the first time they have ever scored off him. The Mets got a run off of Madson in the ninth but the Phillies held on for the 6-4 win.
Both teams had costly miscues; the Phillies, however, overcame theirs, which included a rare error on Chase Utley when he clanked into Jimmy Rollins on a routine pop-up that was clearly the shortstop's ball and a Michael Stutes pick-off throw to an unmanned second base. Both led to Met runs. The Mets made two errors on one single up the middle, then in the ninth allowed the go-ahead run to score when Domonic Brown singled under the glove of first baseman Daniel Murphy.
I give the usually-surehanded Phillies a pass on the errors. It's likely that the fatigue of the Wednesday and Thursday games had caught up with them.
