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Gamenight: Phillies (59-49) At Cardinals (61-50)

With a sweep of the Nationals done, the Phillies will take it to Saint Louis to play a three-gamer with the Cardinals. They’ll be looking for their sixth-straight win and 60th win overall.

Number Nine …: Cole Hamels is gunning for his 10th win of the season again tonight. He’s been stuck on nine wins for almost a month (July 3).

Hey Kyle, Part II: The Phillies will face old teammate Kyle Lohse, who dominated them the last time out (2 ER, 8 IP).

Friday Night Rules: The Phillies are not only great on Fridays, but last time they played in Busch Stadium II on a Friday night, they pounded 20 runs against the Cardinals.

Phillies: Cole Hamels (9-6) 3.27 ERA
Cardinals:

Kyle Lohse (12-3) 3.68 ERA

Gametime: 8:15 p.m. EST
Weather: 89, partly cloudy
Lineup:

MLB Gameday

Your gamenight beer: This is Bender, by Surly in Minnesota. I wish it was named after the beer-drinking robot of “Futurama” fame, but alas, it’s not. Still, this is an easy-driniking brown ale that comes in can or weird-looking ice-tea jug, evidently. Wow. Eat penne pasta with sun-dried tomatoes and pesto sauce with this..

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.