Defense: Depth Was Needed This Year

The Flyers have used plenty of defensemen this season.  With the condensed 48 game schedule – a hellish marathon of games that seems more like an extended torture session than a season- it’s easy to assume the Flyers would have injuries.  But this much? The egregious amount of injuries seems too daunting to overcome, but […]

Kevin Yorke  •  06 Apr 2013
BlueClaws Raising Money for the Shore

From the BlueClaws' Facebook Chalk one up for the pride of Ocean County, the Lakewood BlueClaws. They're playing some baseball now down along the Jersey Shore, in the same area that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. That in and of itself is a kind of miracle. If you saw the destruction down there last fall, […]

Rich Wilkins  •  06 Apr 2013
Phillies Lose An Ugly One on Opening Day, 13-4 to Royals

Today marked Opening Day at Citizens Bank Park, and it couldn't have gone much worse.  In the bottom of the first, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, and Ryan Howard combined for three straight singles, Rollins was able to score on Howard's hit. 1-0 Phils. Domonic Brown led off the bottom of the second, and took Royals' […]

Danielle  •  05 Apr 2013
Phillies Open Up First Home Series of 2013 Against the Royals

Photo: Philliedelphia/Kevin Durso After six long months of anticipation, the Phillies are finally returning to Citizens Bank Park. Coming off a 2-0 victory over the Braves, their first of the season, the team will play it's first of five (six you you split the home-and-home series vs. Boston) interleague series against the Kansas City Royals (1-2). […]

Andrew Gillen  •  05 Apr 2013
Nats Pitcher Gio Gonzalez: ‘I Felt Like I Was Making Love To My Hand’

Parents, hide your kid's eyes from this post…it's  a little over the edge of PG.   Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez had a fantastic season against Miami debut on Wednesday. While allowing two hits over six innings of scoreless ball, striking out five and walking two, Gonzalez also added a home run himself in the 3-0 […]

Erik Seybold  •  04 Apr 2013
Cliff Lee Tosses Eight Strong, Fans Eight; Phillies Shutout Braves, 2-0

A chilly, rainy night in Atlanta turned out to be a dominant night for the Phillies in what would be their first win of the 2013 season. Cliff Lee took the mound against Kris Medlen for his first start of the year. The Phillies got the ball rolling first in this ballgame. In the top […]

Danielle  •  04 Apr 2013
Cliff Lee Makes Season Debut With Hopes to Notch Phillies’ First Win In Series Finale

Photo: Philliedelphia/Steve TrapaniThe Phillies fell to 0-2 on the season with last night's 9-2 loss. Roy Halladay was not good, but was not bad at the same time. He surrendered two home runs, allowed five earned (one he inhereted to Jeremy Horst) on six hits through 3 1/3 innings. Doc walked three, but managed to […]

Erik Seybold  •  04 Apr 2013
Reviewing the Exhibition Game, Previewing the Minor League Season

Brody Colvin threw well. Picture by Richard Wilkins Jr. I'm going to make an admission- it was so damn cold on Tuesday night that I left in the 7th inning and went home. I try to make it a habit to see the Lehigh Valley-Reading scrimmage every year. It's nice to get a look at […]

Rich Wilkins  •  04 Apr 2013
It’s Unbelievable! Oh!

Well just hours after the aquisition of Steve Mason as the new backup for Brygalov the high flying Canadiens took on the Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center. High flying is an understatement as the game started with end to end action. The shots were abounding the first 10minutes, 7-6, and with about 6:30 left […]

Mike Battista  •  03 Apr 2013