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Phillies Beat Up Trenton

July 27, 2007 - Eastern League (EL1)
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Reading, PA -- For a second straight game, the Phillies supplied the thunder, their bats set off the fireworks, both times against Trenton's vaunted pitching staff, which came into town Thursday with the best earned run average in all of pro baseball.

Also for a second straight game, the Phillies dug themselves out of an early hole on the way to scoring in double digits, Friday night by 13-5. Thursday night the Phillies were down 6-3 and won 11-7. A night later it was 3-0 off Chris Rojas before the Phillies had come to bat.

But Jason Hill, with two home runs and three RBIs, supplied the early power surge with a pair of long home runs, and after that everybody got into the act -- everybody in the lineup had at least a hit, and 17 total. Juan Tejeda knocked in three runs, two with a double in a three-run third, when the Phillies (54-52) went up to stay 4-3.

Peeter Ramos had three hits and two RBIs, Mike Costanzo had two hits and two RBIs, and Joey Hammond had three hits -- he has 997 in his minor league career -- and scored four runs.

Rojas (5-3) settled down nicely after his rought start. He went six innings and allowed just a run and two hits after the first inning.

Trenton starter Chase Wright (2-1), a member of the Yankees 40-man roster, didn't get out of the fifth inning. He was roughed up for 10 runs and 11 hits, walked four, hit a batter and struck out one. Only the Boston Red Sox hit him harder this season in his second big-league outing -- remember those four straight bombs he gave up on Sunday Night Baseball in April?

Heck, Jason Hill might have looked like Jason Varitek to the lanky lefty.

Suddenly, the pitching-rich Thunder (63-41), whose army of arms has dominated the league from the start, is doing a pretty good imitation of the Harrisburg Senators. Over the last four games, Thunder pitching has been beaten up: 40 runs, 55 hits.

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