Final Score: Phillies 5, Rockies 1
This is how the Phillies drew it up, right? Three consecutive All-Stars miss a golden opportunity to all but seal a series victory over the Rockies in the middle innings — only for Edmundo Sosa to deliver the knockout blow himself?
Of course it’s not, but based on the way Sosa has been going in the early season, his half of the equation can’t be a surprise. Three innings after the heart of the Phillies’ order struck out three times in a row to leave the bases loaded, the Phillies’ energy guy, who has been much more than an energy guy, doubled their two-run cushion with a bases-juiced knock in the eighth.