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06-30-2004, 03:25 PM
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Phillies rout Montreal
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
By CELESTE E. WHITTAKER
Courier-Post Staff
PHILADELPHIA
The Phillies hit, then hit some more Tuesday night.
By game's end, they had smacked the Montreal Expos, 17-7, in front of a crowd of 35,390 at Citizens Bank Park.
And when the dust cleared, they had 17 hits, four of those home runs. The 17 runs scored was a season high.
Unlike the night before, when David Bell accomplished the feat, no one hit for the cycle. But the Phillies did get plenty of offense, even though slugger Jim Thome was 0-for-4.
Placido Polanco smacked a solo homer in the third for the Phillies, Bobby Abreu had a three-run homer in the fifth and Bell had a two-run homer in the eighth. Bell has homered in three straight games.
Tomas Perez added a two-run homer in the eighth as well. It was that homer, which gave the Phillies 43 home runs this month, that surpassed the club record (for any month) of 42, set in June 1977.
"I sure wasn't looking for that (the record)," Perez said. "I was just trying to hit the ball. That's this team. This team's going to hit a lot of home runs."
Said Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who was 3-for-6 with three RBIs: "It (the hitting) solidifies your confidence. You feel like we're going to do this every night. It's not true, but you feel that way - like you're never going to make an out."
Also, Phillies starter Eric Milton improved to 10-2. He scattered seven hits, gave up seven runs (all earned) and had four walks in five innings.
Someone else who left the game in the fifth inning for the Phillies was left fielder Pat Burrell, who suffered a mild strain of his right groin.
Milton had pitched so-so until the fifth inning, when he gave up back-to-back home runs to Nick Johnson (a three-run homer) and Juan Rivera (a solo shot). He entered the game with a 4.22 ERA for 85 1/3 innings pitched.
"It was my worst outing of the year, something you'd like to forget about," Milton said. "You can't be good every time out. You kind of go over this game, see what you did wrong and try to forget about it."
Ryan Madson relieved Milton in the top of the sixth and pitched three hitless, scoreless innings. Roberto Hernandez closed things out for the Phillies (40-35).
Phillies rout Montreal
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
By CELESTE E. WHITTAKER
Courier-Post Staff
PHILADELPHIA
The Phillies hit, then hit some more Tuesday night.
By game's end, they had smacked the Montreal Expos, 17-7, in front of a crowd of 35,390 at Citizens Bank Park.
And when the dust cleared, they had 17 hits, four of those home runs. The 17 runs scored was a season high.
Unlike the night before, when David Bell accomplished the feat, no one hit for the cycle. But the Phillies did get plenty of offense, even though slugger Jim Thome was 0-for-4.
Placido Polanco smacked a solo homer in the third for the Phillies, Bobby Abreu had a three-run homer in the fifth and Bell had a two-run homer in the eighth. Bell has homered in three straight games.
Tomas Perez added a two-run homer in the eighth as well. It was that homer, which gave the Phillies 43 home runs this month, that surpassed the club record (for any month) of 42, set in June 1977.
"I sure wasn't looking for that (the record)," Perez said. "I was just trying to hit the ball. That's this team. This team's going to hit a lot of home runs."
Said Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who was 3-for-6 with three RBIs: "It (the hitting) solidifies your confidence. You feel like we're going to do this every night. It's not true, but you feel that way - like you're never going to make an out."
Also, Phillies starter Eric Milton improved to 10-2. He scattered seven hits, gave up seven runs (all earned) and had four walks in five innings.
Someone else who left the game in the fifth inning for the Phillies was left fielder Pat Burrell, who suffered a mild strain of his right groin.
Milton had pitched so-so until the fifth inning, when he gave up back-to-back home runs to Nick Johnson (a three-run homer) and Juan Rivera (a solo shot). He entered the game with a 4.22 ERA for 85 1/3 innings pitched.
"It was my worst outing of the year, something you'd like to forget about," Milton said. "You can't be good every time out. You kind of go over this game, see what you did wrong and try to forget about it."
Ryan Madson relieved Milton in the top of the sixth and pitched three hitless, scoreless innings. Roberto Hernandez closed things out for the Phillies (40-35).