Phillies power sinks hapless Jays today.

Game two Phillies v Toronto.

Lineups:Philadelphia: Victorino, Werth, Utley, Howard, Mayberry, Feliz, Coste, Bruntlett, Ruiz and Happ pitching.
Toronto; Scutaro, Hill, Wells, Millar, Lind, Rios, Bautista, Chavez, McDonald and Mills pitching. Second team out there today. No Rolen, no Barajas, no Overbay.

Phillies team are dying to break 0-6 slump, rookie pitcher. Recipe for potential disaster. Manager Manuel held a 20-minute meeting after last night’s 6-1 defeat. First game in 97 games without an extra base hit.
"There comes a time when you wake people up," Manuel said. "Hopefully I got their attention the way I wanted to." We shall see.

Top 1st: Victorino full count and walks. Werth gets hold of this one, whoa, high into fifth deck just inside foul pole in left field. 2-0 Phillies. It is five years since that last happened and Vernon was the last player to do it September 2004. Utley fly ball to Wells. Howard singles to centre. Mayberry strikes out. Feliz with two out. Gets hold of this one, no question, home run to left two more score and Phillies are 4-0 and will be hard to catch in this mood. Coste fly ball to Rios. Jays in an early hole, you can hear the sigh of relief from Phillies bench after early chance to end this long losing streak. Happy Happ.

Bottom 1st: Scutaro grounds to short Bruntlett throw to Howard at first base. Hill strikes out. Wells fly ball to Mayberry in left.

Top 2nd: Bruntlett strikes out, Chavez throw down to Millar. Ruiz strikes out. Victorino strikes out. Maybe a little late? for this now Brad.
Bottom 2nd: Millar pops up to left field Mayberry. One down for Lind grounds to short Bruntlett throw to first base Howard. Two down for Rios. Lines to right field Werth.

Top 3rd: Werth singles to centre, now 2-2. Utley lines out to Wells. Howard strikes out. Mayberry strikes out. Mills again trying hard but….
Bottom 3rd: Bautista singles to left. First hit for Jays today. Chavez grounds to third base Feliz on to second base Utley on to first base Howard, double play ball. Even when they get a hit McDonald infield single to short. That double plays big now. Top of the order Scutaro fly ball to right field Werth. But Jays showing some life ? Two hits off Happ that inning.

Top 4th: Feliz fly ball to Bautista. Coste singles to right. Bruntlett fly ball to right fielder Rios. Two down. Ruiz doubles to centre. Coste scores 5-0 Phillies. Victorino strikes out.
Bottom 4th: Hill fly ball to left Mayberry. Wells pops up to catcher Ruiz. Millar strikes out.

Top 5th: Werth doubles to centre. This guy is in a groove. How come Alex or Vernon cannot do this ? Utley full count and walks. Two on and no outs, more trouble for Mills. Howard singles to right Werth scores. 6-0 Phillies. Utley at third. That’s it for Mills. Camp now pitching. Mayberry hit by a pitch, Howard to second. Bases loaded. Coste singles to centre, Utley scores 7-0 Phillies. Bases remain full. Howard to third and Mayberry to second. Bruntlett, sacrifice fly to Wells, Howard scores. 8-0 Phillies. Mayberry to third. Ruiz grounds to third, Mayberry scores 9-0 Phillies. Coste to second for Victorino fly ball to Wells as Jays
Bottom 5th: Lind singles to left. Rios pops up to first base Howard. One down. Bautista lines out to right field. Chavez grounds to third base Feliz throw to first base Howard.

Top 6th: My old friend B. J. Ryan pitching. Cito had forgotten him for a week but BJ has been getting that ERA down game after game. Werth needs a triple for the cycle, full count, don’t walk him BJ. Gets hold of this one and it is out of here, his second home run of the game. 10-0 Phillies.Utley lines out to Wells. Howard singles to centre. Mayberry grounds to Johnny Mc. On to Hill on to Millar. Double play ball to end the inning. Mayberry having the opposite night to Werth but his time will come, he is a very impressive hitter.
Bottom 6th: McDonald singles to left. His second hit of the afternoon. Scutaro grounds to third baseman Feliz to second base Utley to first baseman Howard, McDonald out. Hill doubles to left. Wells pops up to short Bruntlett.

Top 7th: Adams in as left field. Rios into centre. Bautista into right field. League now pitching. Anything can happen. Feliz doubles to left. Wild pitch by League, Feliz to third. League has great stuff if only he could be more accurate. Coste grounds to McDonald throw to Millar. One down. Bruntlett fly ball to Rios in centre. Ruiz grounds to McDonald throw to Millar.
Bottom 7th: Millar strikes out. Lind strikes out. Rios pops up to second base Utley. That was a quick submission.

Top 8th: Hayhurst pitching. Victorino singles to centre. Werth walks, Victorino to second. Utley grounds to Hill on to Millar for the out. Victorino to third, Werth to second. Howard intentional walk to load the bases. Mayberry strikes out. Feliz bases loaded two outs full count, pops up to Chavez to end the inning. Nice escape by Hayhurst.
Bottom 8th: Bautista, Chavez, and McDonald, that will put fear into any pitcher’s heart. Bautista grounds to third throw to first one down. Chavez grounds to Bruntlett at second, throw to first, two down this team wants to get out on the town. McDonald first pitch pops up to Bruntlett how many pitches was that ? Five ?? 93 Pathetic. Happ ready to pitch another game with this lot. And should have no problem with a complete game shut out. Free swinging top of the order.

Top 9th: Carlson pitching. Coste this is his sixth pitch ! one more than all three Jays last inning. Strikes out on the eighth pitch.Bruntlett, grounds to Hill another highlight reel play as he turns and nice play and throw to Millar, Ruiz pops up to McDonald.
Bottom 9th: Jays have only their pride to play for here. No pun intended. But this has not been a good three hours for the fans. Cito did not put out a strong team to start with, and also reckoned without the intense desire of Phillies to break that 0-6 slide. Intensity will win a lot of games in baseball. Cito will make excuses that Phillies pitched well, hit well, and deserved to win blah blah. Bottom line is that Jays hitters were terrible, Mills pitching even worse and shows the difference between a good rookie in the Minors and what happens when they get to the big show. Mills like Cecil before him is definitely not ready yet. Scutaro first pitch fly ball to left, Hill Adams to finish this off. Fly ball to left and Happ gets his complete game shutout, first of his career. Exactly 100 pitches. Does not seem that excited ! I guess he thought it was an easy game.

The good: Hmmmm. I didn’t see much. Maybe Hill’s fielding. League had the best pitching but not saying much.
The bad: Mills, could not produce when it was needed in that first inning. All of the Jays lineup tonight. But to be fair they were without three of the big guys. When Johnny Mc. has the only multi hit performance (2 hits) you know they had trouble today. Jays 0-1 !!! with runners in scoring position. That is terrible. Jays were doing their usual swinging without Rolen and Overbay to show them some discipline. Happ took advantage. "(Happ) stayed right with his game plan and they were swinging at him," Manuel said. "He did a good job, a super job."