Battle of the Easts 1st Place Teams

[Bon Bon]

The Redsox go into Philly in a 3 game series that will be against the leaders of the A. L. East and the leaders of the N.L. East. This series also has several very good pitching match-ups.

Game 1: Colon vs. Hamels: Two poitchers that can really be electric. Hamels is a huge strikeout pitcher. he has struckout 86 men in 99 innings and has posted two great outing in his last two. Colon won his last outing versus Baltimore going 6 innings and striking out 7 men and only allowing 1 earned.

Game 2: Lester vs. Moyer: The ageless Moyer is putting up really good numbers once again with a 7-3 record and a pretty respectable 4.12 ERA. He also pitched extremely well in his last outing versus Florida going 8 strong innings in a shutout. Lester pitched beautifully in the win versus Baltimore in his last outing going 7 inning and only allowing 2 earned runs.

Game 3: Masterson vs. Kendrick: Not being much into the N.L. I really never heard of Kendrick before , but he has some pretty impressive numbers this season. He has a record of 6-2 with an O.K. ERA of 4.54. In his last outing he got the win over the Cardinals going 7 innings and allowing only 1 run. Masterson lost in his last outing versus the Reds giving up two long balls in the process. He however posted his best in strikeout with 9 in the game.

Outlook: To be realistic this series is going to be really tough. The Redsox continue to struggle on the road although they did manage to take there last road series versus the Reds 2 games to 1. I would be really happy if the Redsox can come out of Philly with two of these games.

[BronxBomberz]

Game 1 is on ESPN.

[Bon Bon]

Game 1 is on ESPN.

Yep and that should be the best pitching match-up of all the games.

[Bon Bon]

Damn it Mother ****** Bartolo Fat*** Colon is pitching like ******* ****. This is ******* ridiculous. I think I shall go have a heart attack now.

4-0 in the 3rd Phillies

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Lugo with a double and Casey moves to 3rd. Hopefully the Sox are going to get back into this game.

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Ryan Howard is a monster. he almost just hit his third homerun of the game, but ended up with a triple. Yes I said a triple.

8-2 Phillies

[Kingdom]

Damn it Mother ****** Bartolo Fat*** Colon is pitching like ******* ****. This is ******* ridiculous. I think I shall go have a heart attack now.

4-0 in the 3rd Phillies

He is pitching to a team that just dropped 20 on the cardinals. The phillies routinely destroy pitching.

[Bon Bon]

I hope they don't drop 20 tonight. They are almost half way there.

[Bon Bon]

Phillies beat up on the Redsox 8-2 in game 1.

[BronxBomberz]

Yankees are only 5.5 games out of 1st now.

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Yankees are only 5.5 games out of 1st now.

Good for them , but without the Wangster that will most certainly balloon back into double digits very soon.

[cjkalt]

AL East is a 2 team race between the Sox and the Rays, and if the Yanks get Sabathia they'll be in the duldrums of the AL East for years to come.

[Bon Bon]

The Redsox took game 2 with an outstanding pitching performance by Jon Lester. Jonathan papelbon also picked up his 20 save of the season.

[Bon Bon]

The Redsox take the series with a 7-4 win in this afternoons contest. Both Lowell and J.D. Drew hoit homeruns. Drew continues to be on a tear since Big Papi has been out. Also Pedroia had three hits.