Amazin's and Phightin's split series with 2 each

8/21 - Citizens Bank Ballpark

Gooden vs Moyer

Mets 7, Phillies 2

Vintage Doc for 7 innings sealed the deal as the Mets offense found its stride vs a tiring old man Moyer.  Heading into the 8th the score was 1-1 and looked to be a tight pitching duel until Moyer tired ad the Mets scored 4 runs in the 8th and 2 in the 9th to make it seem like a laugher.  curiously Moyer is actually older than Doc Gooden, even thought the latter was a meta star first.  It seems like both hurlers had a reverse of fortune with Gooden having a meteoric rise over the first 6 years of his career and Moyer hot hitting his stride until his mid 30's.  Gooden would give up 7 hits, but only 2 runs over 7 innings.  He also fanned 7, which never hurts.  Kevin McReynolds, who left the game hitting a buck 90 went 3 for 4 with a 3 RBI's.  Mackey Sasser hit his first homer of the season and had 3 RBI's.  Jayson Werth had 3 hits in a losing cause.

8/22

Viola vs Halladay

Phillies 8, Mets 0

For the second straight outing Frank Viola was battered from pillar to post.  Doc Halladay was stellar tossing a pain free 3 hit shutout.  After scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the 3rd the Phighin's never looked back.  Placido Polanco was 3 for 5 wi.  Raul Ibanez was the oly Philly regular not to post a hit, although he did knock in 2.

8/23 - Shea Stadium

Hamels vs Cone

Mets 5, Phillies 4

New York made a late comeback after Cole Hamels began to tire and the pen was leaky.  Down 3-0 after 6 and a half innings of play the Amazin's exploded for 4 urns in the bottom of the 7th to take a 4-3 lead.  Dave Magadan's 2 out double scored Elster.  After Straw was given an intentional pass, McReynolds singled between Utley and Gload to score HoJo.  Sasser's single looked to break the game open, but the Phills weren't done and when Polanco singled Schnider home the game was tied at 4-4, until the bottom of the 9th when Daryl Boston hit a walk off double off the righ field wall to score Jefferies.

8/24

Kendrick vs Fernandez

Phillies 8, Mets 0

3 of the 4 games in this series were completely one sided.  This time it was the Phightin's turn to win easy.  Kyle Kendrick threw himself a tidy 2 hit shutout to get his second win of the season and lower his ERA to 0.63.  El Sid was once again dreadful for the Mets. Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez both went 2 for 4 with 4 RBI's going to Werth and 3 to Ibanez as the Flushing faithful left Big Shea disgusted and disgruntled.