Take me out to the ball game...

The Phils just wrapped up a rather odd little interleague series against the Red Sox. The first game saw the Phillies put up a decent fight but lose 5-2. The second game, on Saturday, saw a cataclismically bad reenactment of the Phillies' glory days, and by glory days I mean those occassional times when they collectively forget how to play baseball. The top of the first saw them give up five runs, thanks in large to not one, not two, but three errors. They did eventually remember how to hit the ball, though not how to field it, and really the last run Boston scored in the top of the 9th (taking them to an 11-6 victory) was the final blow in a beheading with a dull, rusty axe.

However, yesterday saw the Phillies - and this is just weird - beat the Sox 11-6, getting six of their runs in the 7th. Either the score was intentional just to poke Boston in the eye (in which case the Phillies are much better than I thought and as such have a lot of explaining to do about Saturday*), or fate is once again just jerking them around.

Either way, they're doing pretty well overall so far this season, with the occasional ass-kicking handed back to them. Way too soon to make any guesses about what will happen come October, but you know, anything is possible...

*Because...seriously, guys? Three errors in one inning? Are you a professional team, or the local seven-year-old 'we use a batting tee after the first sixteen strikes' little league team?