The Los Angeles Dodgers did battle with the the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday at Citizens Bank Park with the Dodgers picking up the W 15 to 9. You don’t often see such high scoring games, and anyone with Phillies tickets sure got their money’s worth. This high-scoring game saw the teams combine for a whopping 24 runs! Talk about excitement!
Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla (3.32 ERA) got the win, while Kyle Kendrick (4.60 ERA) took the loss for the Phillies. Vicente Padilla went 5 innings for the Dodgers, allowed 6 hits, one home run and 4 earned runs with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Dodgers was Ronald Belisario (3.93), Carlos Monasterios (3.68), George Sherrill (7.00), and Octavio Dotel (4.36). The Phillies’s starter Kyle Kendrick went 3.1 innings, allowed 8 hits, no home runs and 5 earned runs with 2 walks and one strikeout. Antonio Bastardo (5.54), David Herndon (4.82), Danys Baez (5.54), Jose Contreras (3.40), J.C. Romero (4.38), and Chad Durbin (3.23) also pitched for the Phillies. With the win, Padilla’s record goes to 6-3, while Kendrick is at 7-5.
Casey Blake provided much of the offense for the Dodgers with an incredible 4 runs batted in. In addition to the 15 runs, the Dodgers scored 18 hits and committed no errors. Andre Ethier led the Dodgers in hitting with 4 hits, followed by Jay Gibbons’s 3 hits, and Ryan Theriot with 3. Jamey Carroll had a tough day at the plate, leaving 7 runners on base. The Phillies’s Ross Gload had quite a day at the plate, batting in a stunning 4 runs! Ross Gload had the most hits for the Phillies (3), followed by Wilson Valdez (2), and Domonic Brown (2). The Phillies managed 9 runs, 14 hits and 2 errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Mike Reilly, Chad Fairchild, Todd Tichenor and Eric Cooper. There were 44,881 Phillies ticket holders in attendance at Citizens Bank Park.