My entries are starting to become re-runs, every once in a while I get to write about a win, but not today. The Braves beat the Phillies last night 6 to 3 and to make matters worse,  John Lannan goes down with an injury to his knee, likely ending his season. The Phillies bats were playing catch up the entire game. After the 2nd inning, the Phillies were behind 5-0. Chris Johnson drove in 3 of those runs by himself, the Phillies had 3 runs total. Three bright spots in the game were Domonic Brown and Darin Ruf both hitting homeruns and the Phillies bullpen coming in and actually giving the Phillies a chance to comeback. The bullpen threw 7 innings of one run ball, that is very good compared to what the bullpen normally does. The Phillies as a team managed 8 hits and were 0 for 8 with RISP. After the game  John Lannan spoke about his injury; “It’s tough,” Lannan said. “I want to help this team out tremendously, go out there every five days. I know when I’m healthy I can go out there and do my job. I feel like I’m letting everybody down — letting myself down, my family down — but you have to look at the silver lining. Hopefully, I can get this thing fixed” (1). The Phillies have the night off, and comeback home for a 10 game home stand that begins with the RED HOT Los Angeles Dodgers, who have won 8 games in a row. Cliff Lee who is 1-3 with a 5.64  ERA  in his last 5 starts needs to get back to Cliff Lee type pitching. The Dodgers will counter with Zack Grienke who is 10 and 3 this year. The game will be at Citizens Bank Park and will start at 7:05pm on Channel 17 WPHL.

(1)-http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_08_14_phimlb_atlmlb_1&mode=recap_away&c_id=phi#gid=2013_08_14_phimlb_atlmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=phi

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