June has been very kind to the Phillies. Coming into tonight, they had won 18 games in the month, one of their best showings in quite a while and with one of their better pitchers on the mound to start the game, they had a chance to make it 19, which would be excellent. The last two nights were frustrating games where the offense didn’t show, so they also had that extra motivation for the game, needing a win to salvage something out of the series with Atlanta.
Boy did they come through.
It didn’t start off well.