The Philadelphia Phillies faced the the Los Angeles Dodgers yesterday at Dodger Stadium with the Phillies winning 8 to 4. It was quite a game that followers with Phillies tickets will be talking about for days.
Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick (4.72 ERA) got the win, while Carlos Monasterios (4.02 ERA) took the loss for the Dodgers. Kyle Kendrick went 5 innings for the Phillies, allowed 7 hits, one home run and 4 earned runs with one walk and no strikeouts. Also pitching for the Phillies was Chad Durbin (3.45), J.C. Romero (3.82), Ryan Madson (3.11), and Brad Lidge (3.78). The Dodgers’s starter Carlos Monasterios went 2 innings, allowed 5 hits, one home run and 5 earned runs with one walk and one strikeout. Ramon Troncoso (4.71), Jeff Weaver (4.99), George Sherrill (6.61), Jonathan Broxton (3.44), and Octavio Dotel (4.15) also pitched for the Dodgers. With the win, Kendrick’s record goes to 9-7, while Monasterios falls to 3-5.
In addition to the 8 runs, the Phillies managed 9 hits and committed no errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Phillies, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. The Dodgers didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Dodgers managed 4 runs, 8 hits and one error.
Umpiring duties were performed by Tony Randazzo, Paul Nauert, Brian Gorman and Ted Barrett. There were 45,164 Dodgers ticket holders in attendance at Dodger Stadium.
