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As our parent site, Gothamist, reported yesterday in a detailed and oft-updated news post, former Phillies pitcher (and more recently, Yankee player) Cory Lidle crashed his single-engine private plane into the 30th floor of a high-rise on East 72nd Street in New York yesterday afternoon. Lidle and his passenger - apparently flying instructor Tyler Stanger - both died in the crash. Thankfully the only other injuries - sustained by firefighters and some people within the building - were not serious.

So the dust has settled. The two biggest moves made by yesterday’s trade deadline were the Phillies sending Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle to the Yankees, and the Cubs trading out Cy Young Winner Greg Maddux to the Dodgers.

Jimmy Rollins extended his league-leading hit streak last night against the Atlanta Braves, but that was about the only thing that went right for the Phillies. The Fightin's lost 4 - 1 against the Braves last night in Atlanta, leaving them two games behind the Houston Astros, who beat up on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Both teams have 11 games left this season. The Marlins, sitting in third place in the Wild Card race, lost to the New York Mets in 12 innings and now find themselves three games back of the Astros.

Andy Pettitte that the Phils could pull this one out due to being in a home-like park. We were wrong.

Let’s play a game of word association. We’ll toss out a word or phrase and you tell us the first word that comes to mind. OK, here goes. “Jim Thome.” Yep, “trade” is correct. One more, “last night’s game.” Right again: “train-wreck.” That’s exactly what last night’s game was. It was horrible but you couldn’t look away. Everything looked like it was going fine, running smoothly along the tracks. Then, BOOM: the 5th inning hits and the Phils are derailed. We stared at the wreck intently hoping that Phillies would recover, but no luck.

In their usual inconsistent style, the Phillies showed us a glimpse of promise as they shutout the Nationals last night. Usually, it would not be wise to count on the Phils winning a tight game against the first-place Nats, but they were able come out on top. If they could only play like that every night, they would be the ones in first place. The game was a stalemate until the bottom of the ninth inning, when David Bell came up with the game-winning sacrifice fly with the bases loaded. Bobby Abreu came in to score the go-ahead run. Cory Lidle had a great game with seven strikeouts and only one walk in eight innings. Lidle has been playing very well lately and is on of the key parts of the Phils’ starting rotation. We also have an update on Geoff Geary, the Phils’ relief pitcher who was hit in the eye two games ago with a foul ball. Geary will miss the rest of this series with the Nationals, but should return after. We believe that the Phillies deserve a lot of credit for winning this game. The Phils usually struggle in close games, whereas Washington has won 24 of their games by a margin of one. In a tight game like this, the Phils were clearly at a disadvantage, but they manged to stay cool under pressure and pull out the win. Congratulations, Phillies – we still want a new manager, though.

The Phillies and the Mets are in the midst of an epic battle for sole possession of last place in the NL East. It’s kind of like Lord of the Rings, except, in this case, the winner is the one who ends up farthest from the ring – the World Series ring, that is. But in all seriousness, the Phillies played a very good game and were able to take advantage of struggling Mets pitcher Kaz Ishii. The Phillies clearly had the pitching advantage in this game, starting the very talented Cory Lidle (more talented than his 4.10 ERA would let on) against Ishii, who was sporting a less-than-impressive 2-6 (now 2-7) record this season. Lidle was able to pitch 7 strong innings in the rain.