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Gameday: Blue Jays (22-23) At Phillies (24-20)

Two homers. Five ribbies. Rod Barajas was a beast last night against the Phillies … blah, blah, blah that’s a broken record.

Time to get down to business. The Phils offense hasn’t been much outside Jayson Werth and Jimmy Rollins lately â€” it’s time for the big boys to step up, and no better time than today, with the Phils facing Blue Jay stud pitcher Shaun Marcum. He is 4-2 with a 2.22 ERA. The Phils will counter with Kyle Kendrick, who wasn’t bad his late time out against the Braves.

Carlos Ruiz is starting today, back from his illness. Werth starts again. Rain is in the forecast yet again.

Phillies: Kyle Kendrick (3-2) 4.87 ERA
Blue Jays:

Shaun Marcum (4-2) 2.22 ERA

Gametime: 1:35 p.m. EST
Weather: 65 degrees, rain
Lineup: Rollins, Werth, Utley, Howard, Burrell, Jenkins, Feliz, Ruiz, Kendrick

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Your gameday beer: As we say goodbye to a Canadian counterpart, we do so in style. It’s Moosehead tonight. Cleaner than most of its American brothers, it finishes nicely and can be drank in bunches. Eat some honey glazed chicken with it.

Go Phillies!

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.