PHILLIES BEAT DODGERS, WIN NATIONAL LEAGUE
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Thu, October 16, 2008 12:04 AM | Comments: 148
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PHILLIES WIN THE PENNANT!
The Phillies advanced to their sixth World Series in franchise history with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Cole Hamels — the National League Championship Series most valuable player — pitched a sterling seven innings of one-run baseball. The run came off a Manny Ramirez home run. The Hall of Famer knocked out a high pitch — more power to him. But who cares!
The Phils scored early, often, and secured their victory. Jimmy Rollins — just like in game four of the NLDS — hit a leadoff home run to give the Phils a 1-0 lead. Then the boys piled it on. Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell had huge two-out hits to give the good guys a 3-0 lead. Dodger errors contributed to what became a 5-0 lead. That was more than enough for Hamels and the Phils.
Big props to Ryan Madson, who continues to be the shut-down setup man this team has desired. He defused a lite eighth-inning rally by the Dodgers, getting Ramirez to ground out in that frame. Brad Lidge secured the ninth, getting the Nomar Garciaparra pop-out to Carlos Ruiz to end the NLCS.
Go crazy, Philadelphia, go crazy. The Phillies are National League champions!
Associated Press photo
Posts: 0 Sarge
WE WIN!! WE WIN!! WE WIN!!
Posted: 12:08 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Frank
Glory! Glory!
Congrats to all Phillies, Phillies fans and the drivers of this blog!
I appreciate being on your Blogroll- and never tire of this site. You guys work hard- and it is a pleasure to follow the Phillies on here.
Posted: 12:10 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
HOLY HELL! YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!
Posted: 12:10 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Frank
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!
Posted: 12:10 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
Lovin life.
Posted: 12:11 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Durbinator
Onto the World Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Posted: 12:13 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Unreal.
Posted: 12:13 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
It hardly gets better than this! WHAT A DAY!
Posted: 12:14 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
It’s a great feeling, what a team and you just know the offense has more to give. Quick thanks to all you guys behind Phillies Nation for giving us a place to vent through the bad and let the good linger that bit longer.
Go Fightin’ Phils!
Posted: 12:14 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Oh, and that makes 99 wins for the year. 1 more and technically J’Rolls prediction was correct. But who really cares, we’re in the series.
Posted: 12:15 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Ryk
And the best part is that hopefully there wont be a Red Sok in sight. 2 teams playing for baseballs Holy Grail that I respect and admire. Just prefect. See you guys next weekend. :)
Posted: 12:16 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Evan
YYYYYYESSSSSSSSSSSS
Posted: 12:18 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Ryan
I can’t believe it. I really can’t. This is the first time I can remember them going to the World Series.
Tim, you’ve done a great job this year with the blog. I found it in April and all I can say is that it is awesome.
Posted: 12:20 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
I could not be happier for players like Jimmy and Pat. I hope everyone saw Charlie’s interview with Comcast; I could not be happier for him either. He has turned out to be a great manger.
Tim, I want to thank you and the rest of the boys for this site. It really keeps me company when I am in Greenville. Thanks for all of the updates and the stories. Many thanks.
GO PHILLIES!!!!!
Posted: 12:23 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
I love how every single player isn’t acting to excited and saying how their journey isn’t over, i love the focus…LETS GO PHILS!
Posted: 12:24 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
PHUCK YEA!!!!!!!!!!
PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LETS WIN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 12:24 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
I’m out for the night – amazing season so far, hopefully the best is yet to come. Congrats’ to all.
Posted: 12:25 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Could someone post clips of the fans in Philly? I am going to bed knowing that ALL IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD
PHALL CLASSIC!!!!
Posted: 12:27 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
PHILLIES :D
Posted: 12:28 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Bonezy
WHERE IS THE NATION PARTY FOR GAME 3….I’ll be there will BELLS ON!!!!!!!
Posted: 12:30 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Josh
Anyone want the audio of Harry Kalas calling the last out? Email me at hsoj1006@aol.com if you want it. I have no idea how to post it here. GO PHILS!
Posted: 12:31 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Putting it out there: I love you guys.
Four wins to go.
Posted: 12:31 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 sean
Charlie was poetic on comcast, and I know that’s a stretch. I’m so happy for him and this team. Let’s go phillies! Four more games!
Posted: 12:31 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 PRP
I waited 15 years for this day and I’m thrilled we did it!!!
But we got some unfinished business and I want that parade that everyone talks so highly about from 1980 (I was born in 81).
GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring on the Rays. Phils win the series in 5 games to become WORLD CHAMPS!!
If we win I’m volunteering my company vehicle for a good old Phillies flippin!!
Posted: 12:34 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 NateB
Wahoo!!!! Finally the WORLD SERIES!!!! WORLD CHAMPION BOUND!!!!
Posted: 12:34 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
Tim, we love you guys too. I know how much I appreciate what you do here, it was a great day when I found this blog a few months ago.
Thanks to Tim, Brian, Rob and the rest of the gang who make this work.
Posted: 12:35 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
haha, I just looked at that picture closely, there’s 8 players there hugging and only 4 feet are touching the ground, pretty much says it all!
Posted: 12:39 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Joephilly
4 more wins. the jobs not done yet!!!!!!!
Posted: 12:44 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
Ok, it has sunk in a bit more. Wowsers!
Love all around!
Posted: 12:46 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
Jimmy may have been right after all. We can get to 100 wins!
Posted: 12:47 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Rob Cowie
I have pics and vids from cottman and fkd. Wild indeed. WS
Posted: 12:48 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Mazinman
What a moment! This team is truly something else. I loved Victorino saying on ESPN that he was not that excited because they still had one more step to go. Bring on whoever you want AL!
Posted: 12:51 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Rob Cowie
We love the praise and thank you guys for coming here to our site, I mean OUR site, for your phillies info. Our goal throughout the season is to keep you guys in mind in terms of everything we do – trips, clothes, post, giveaways etc.
Thank you.
Posted: 12:56 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 MikeMc26
Thanks guys at Phillies Nation, thanks to the fightins and……. LET’S DO THIS PHILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 12:57 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Hey, hey, hey, hey — FOUR MORE WINS.
How about that? Four more.
Posted: 01:00 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
FOUR MORE WINS!
Posted: 01:01 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike
Is that Brett myers that’s about 5 feet in the air?
Posted: 01:05 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 kbless
FOUR MORE WINS!!! This is the most amazing feeling ever! I cannot believe it. LETS GO PHILLIES!
Posted: 01:07 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 T Marty
Oh this feels good. 80′ did when i was 9, and so on. The Phils have been a major part of my life for over 30 years. So happy. so so happy.
Posted: 01:07 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 phighter
Go Phils! Awesome win, I haven’t been thisd excited about a Philly team since I was nine in 1980. What a win and what a team, what a World Series victory parade Philly will have. I don’t care how much tickets cost, I am getting to a game. I am in San Diego tonight and the bar I was at included two Philly fans and a lot of Dodger fans crying in their beer. I told every one in an ear shot that Hamels is a HOF’er. Thanks guys for the awesome sitea, and a year’s worth of good memories of a great team.
Posted: 01:08 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Embassy
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to change the paper bag myspace logo lol
Posted: 01:13 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 ryan
man im wasted. i havent felt this good in a long time. phuck the stock market phillies phans! lets celebrate our trip to the world series!!!!!
Posted: 01:24 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 dan
Just got back from running with about two hundred Drexel kids from 34th to city hall. What an amazing night it has been. Tim and the guys, are you getting to any games? As a strong thank you, I’d like to see if other fans are willing to donate to buy you guys tickets. Anyone just post it if you’re in. I’m honestly going to put down $100. I love you guys, and I love this site. Since the end of last year it’s been such an integral part of my phillies phandom. Thank you for everything you do.
Posted: 01:36 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Sam
This, beerleaguer and we should be gms are all i bother reading anymore…great, dedicated, original and nuanced blogging here, and this seems like a great moment to join everyone in voicing my appreciation.
I can’t believe this…four more wins.
They needed to save that goosebumps capmaign for this season because i’m getting them now.
Posted: 01:44 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Nationals#1
wowowowowow i can’t believe this. holy shit, the world f’in series! and for the first time since ’93 i get to watch the phils play in the world series on my birthday, couldn’t ask for a better present. broad street was amazing, i was out in the crowd on locust street and then rode my bike up and down broad about three times, high fiving everything in sight! what a great night, but it will be 100 times better when we win the world series!
Posted: 01:45 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 sean
I’d love to hear what joe buck, tim mccarver and the other fox analysts have to say for themselves now. They always count us out and it makes this win feel so much better. This is an advertising and television nightmare for fox (tampa vs. Philly) but its a dream for us. Go phils!
Posted: 02:00 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Bruce
Congrats to the NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS… THE PHILLIES!!
Damn! It feel so good to say that. :-)
Now we have to wait a whole week (Oct. 22) for the start of the WS. That sucks. I bet the Fox network is wringing their hands over the prospect of a Tampa Bay/Philadelphia Series and concerns in their minds with the national ratings and sponsors.
Posted: 02:14 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 mike
AHHHHH! WHAT AN EVENING! I am 19, 20 in a few weeks and this is the greatest sports moment in my lifetime, in ’93 i was about 6 so it wasn’t exactly the same thing. I am so happy with this moment i hardly know what to do with myself, i’ll finish this champagne and hit the sack, go phils.
BEAT THE.RAYS.
Posted: 02:18 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Michael S
haha, yea mike, me too. 20 in a few weeks and living through the best sports moments in my life. Flyers lost in 97, Sixers in 01, and Eagles in 05. Now it’s the Phillies time…Let’s WIN!
Posted: 02:22 AM on October 16, 2008
Posts: 0 Sean M
HOLY $HIT!!!! THEY DID IT!!! My dad and I followed almost every pitch this year, and holy $hit! they’re there! THE WORLD SERIES!!!! I went to game 4 in LA and it was the best baseball game i ever went to, but it’s not over!!! GO PHILLIES!!! 4 MORE WINS!!!
Posted: 02:44 AM on October 16, 2008