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Different Day, Same Results: Phillies Lose 8-3

Kyle Kendrick struggled again, walking five, giving up six hits, and allowing six runs in an 8-3 loss to the Padres. It was his second straight bad start, his second straight walk-heavy, hit-heavy start. His ERA now stands at a bad 5.01.

The Phillies offense did nothing to make it a game, however. They got two early runs — in the first they got two from a Ryan Howard ground out (of course) and a Shane Victorino single (the .285 hitter is one of two hitters performing above average right now). In the fourth they got one more run — a Greg Dobbs double (the other one performing above average, scoring Victorino (duh)).

Everything else — strikeouts (13 of them), pop outs, ground outs. The usual crap.

Once Kendrick left, the bullpen did a nice job keeping it close enough. Clay Condrey and Scott Eyre went 2.1 innings of shutout ball; Les Walrond gave up another two runs, lifting his ERA to 7.11. Rudy Seanez was brought back to the Phils after a 15-day DL stint; why couldn’t Walrond be the casaulty and not Mike Cervenak?

Anyway, another loss, another usual storyline. The Phillies are now two games in back of the Mets in the NL East with the loss.

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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.