After last night's 10-2 mauling of the Rays at Citizen's Bank Park, the Phillies now stand just one victory away from ending Philadelphia's 25-year championship drought. The Phils hit four homers, including two by Ryan Howard, one by Jayson Werth, and one by pitcher Joe Blanton, and actually hit with runners in scoring position after not doing so for the entire series.
Perhaps most encouraging is that the notoriously streaky Howard has gotten hot, now hitting three homers in the last two games. That, and the Phils will have ace Cole Hamels going Monday night for the clincher, at home, with all the momentum in the world on their side. Philly fans right now, I believe, feel exactly the way Red Sox fans did during the Series in '04- no, based on our history, we shouldn't be this optimistic, but this feels like destiny.
It still hasn't sunk in that it might actually happen, this week, but then I'll feel the same way next week about Obama, too. Go Phils. I'm with TwinsGeek, another husband of a Phillies fan, who has temporarily re-Christened himself "PhilsGeek."
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 27, 2008 03:11 PM