After losing to the Pacers Monday (110-103), and the Pistons Wednesday (86-78), the Sixers are hoping to beat the Knicks tonight. They’re hoping that snaps them out of the losing funk they’ve been in, which has seen them lose 10 of their last 12 games. The Flyers lost out big time to the Devils this week (7-3), but conquered the Penguins last night (4-3). Everybody’s eye is on the Atlantic Division, which is in a......

The Phillies have signed free-agent Brett Favre…er, 33-year-old outfielder Geoff Jenkins (see the resemblance?) and 30-year-old starter/reliever Chad Durbin, continuing a rather dulling off-season for the Fightins. Is there any reason to get excited about these two players? Um, maybe…if the Phillies front office knows something we don’t. But that’s never really the case with these middle-of-the-pack guys. Do you still remember Rod Barajas? I didn’t. I had to look him up. Kyle Lohse?......

I don't know if you've heard, but supposedly our baseball team is going to the playoffs or something? Anyway, you probably don't care, but they did have a rally outside City Hall on Monday and Phillyist was there to take some "award-winning" photographs. Enjoy and get ready for the Phillies to start kicking Rockie ass today! The rally was going really well. But then some gigantic, mutated version of the Philly Phanatic came out of......

It’s still hard to believe. The Phillies have found their way into October, alive and thriving. And they are National League East champions. Sounds a little foreign, but we’d be lying if there wasn’t a sweeter sound in Philadelphia. The moment when Brett Myers struck out Wily Mo Pena, threw his glove straight into the air, and his teammates mobbed him was a defining moment for this Phillyist. After years of hearing Harry Kalas drone......

It’s finally over with. The Phillies have lost their 10,000th game. That being said, and accepted, it barely matters to the realist who watched the Phillies get hammered by a score of 10-2, thereby losing a game to the Mets and the Braves in the NL East standings. At least they didn’t really tease us into thinking they could win the game. The Phillies have long had the most losses of any sports franchise in......

Philadelphia Theatre Company recently received a $3,000,000 grant from the City of Philadelphia's Cultural Corridors Fund, and are now 2/3 of the way to the $30,000,000 they need for their new home on the Avenue of the Arts: the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Four Democratic candidates for president visited our city yesterday, courting the National Education Association, who are holding their national representative assembly here at the moment, and the Association of Community Organizations for......

June 23: The Flyers selected James vanRiemsdyk with the second overall pick in the 2007 NHL draft. Scouts project vanRiemsdyk, a 6’3” left-winger from Middletown, New Jersey, to be a solid power forward that can make plays all over the ice, gaining some comparisons to John LeClair and Rick Nash. Experts were saying this was the most mystifying draft in quite some time, with some speculation as to who would go where in the......

Since spring training, it’s been the same story for the Phillies – they hit the snot out of the ball, but have huge question marks in the bullpen. Flash forward half a season and the same problem still exists. They're an average team that makes three-run leads in the seventh inning nerve-wracking. In the latest episode of late-inning drama, Geoff Geary has been so bad lately he's shaved his goatee and cut his hair in......

June 17 -The Phillies lost the last game of their series with the Detroit Tigers, 7-4. Not only did the Phillies lose the series, but gave away yet another game that they should have won. Phillies pitcher Adam Eaton continued his string of quality starts, and pitched and hit well enough to win, leaving the game with a 3-1 lead, and coming up with two hits on the day. Yet, it’s the same story on......

Coming off a three-game sweep of the Mets, the Phillies headed to Kansas City to face the second worst team in baseball. “Hello, two sweeps in a row,” we thought. Our confidence soared as Ryan Howard hit a two-run home run in the first inning. “They’re not even putting up a fight,” we said, comfortably smirking. Until Freddy Garcia started pitching, with a strained right shoulder. Garcia didn't make it through two innings before he......

With 2 men on, a full count, two outs, and down by two in the seventh inning, Jimmy Rollins launched a high fly to deep right-field. Everyone who was watching the game held their breath – everyone but Rollins. He watched it take off, dropped his bat, took a quick skip, and began to round the bases. Confident as ever, Rollins walked back to the dugout and pointed and smiled to the crowd at......

by Ryan Dougherty Editor's note: In celebration of the Phillies' opener that's going on right about... well, now, here's a preview from a reader who'll soon be a writer. Enjoy! It’s Opening Day in Philadelphia, and the forecasts for the weather and the Phillies are bright. Which means a plurality of Delaware Valleyians is thinking one thing: “How are they gonna [foul] it up this time?” It’s hard-boiled and reasonable skepticism. As has been the......

There's a lot of reasons to hate today. Either you were alone last night or are now hung over from Valentine's Day celebrations. And everyone's cold -- mind-numbingly cold. But today is a glorious day, the real signifier that spring is around the corner: today, pitchers and catchers report to spring training. If you can't head out to Clearwater yourself (and with all those cancelled flights yesterday, did anyone get anywhere?), check out coverage here,......

Phillyist paid another visit to the nation's capital on Tuesday, and took in the first game of the Phillies-Nationals series along with a humidity-drenched crowd of 25,735 that yet again included a significant number of Phillies fans. While much has been made of the fact that Phillies don't play any games against teams over .500 for the rest of the season, the Nationals boast two quite good players in leadoff slugger Alfonso Soriano and......

They’re up, they’re down, they’re all around. The Phillies halted a five-game losing streak and a possible sweep by the Boston Red Sox, on Sunday afternoon. But they blew it in an up and down, 16-inning marathon 9-8 loss last night to the New York Mets. Ryan Madson might as well have been the starter – he came into the game in the ninth inning and pitched seven innings of relief, his longest outing......

The Phillies called up 22-year-old superstar Cole Hamels to the big leagues yesterday. There’s a few reasons why this is a great move: an 0.39 ERA over the starts in Scranton. In those three games, he allowed a whopping one run, and batters are hitting .128 against him. The starting rotation needs more ammo, but we hope Hamels is ready. This is the same kid who’s been set back in his major league course......

The Phillies are riding high into this weekend’s series with the San Francisco Giants. Showing some of that “fighting” side, the Phils worked themselves up to a .500 record by beating the Atlanta Braves 6-3 last night. Sure, their last two series were only pairs, but they swept them both. And last night’s win was no easy feat considering that Braves starter John Thomson brought a league starter best 1.32 ERA into the game.......

Business Person Special today down at Citizens Bank Park. And it’s a perfect day to, uh, catch that cold that’s been going around. Just wear sunblock so the boss can’t tell you were sitting out in the sun all day. To prove that we’re not totally negative about the Phils over here, props to David Bell for his three-run home run in last night’s 9-5 win over the Rockies. It could be that the......

The Phillies have signed Yankees set-up man Tom Gordon to a 3-year contract worth $18 million. The move will become official if/when Gordon passes a physical, reportedly scheduled for Saturday. The 38-year-old reliever will replace new Met Billy Wagner as the team's closer. Wagner recently signed with the Mets for $43 million over 4 years. Gordon was a success in New York setting things up for Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, but some are concerned about......

The most interesting facet about the Phillies' just-concluded search for a new general manager isn't that they hired a proven winner who had built three other franchises into playoff teams and was the architect of the fantastic Blue Jays squads of the early '90s, squads that won a pair of World Series. No, the really interesting thing has been the collective reaction among Phillies fans to Wednesday's announcement of Pat Gillick's hiring. Despite Gillick's impressive......

Believe it or not, Philadelphia isn't the only city with blogs. So, we decide to take a look around the world, examining their every blog and choosing the best posts. Coincidentally, they all came from within the Gothamist network. Can you imagine that? Craziness. >>> Austinist: We like MP3s. Austinist posted MP3s. We like Austinist. >>> Bostonist: First, the Patriots beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl. Second, the Boston Red Sox allow Curt Schilling......

The Philadelphia Phillies entered their weekend series needing a sweep of the Washington Nationals to keep hope alive in their Wild Card chase. They got their sweep, but unfortunately, they needed something else: the Cubs to take three of four from the Houston Astros in Texas. While the Cubs were able to take the first two games from the Astros, they dropped the last two games, sending the Phillies home for the winter. The......

The Philadelphia Phillies will start their final series of the regular series tonight when Corey Lidle takes the mound against the Washington Nationals. The Phillies must sweep the series if they have any hope of making the playoffs. Even if they do that, the Phillies need some help: the Astros have three games remaining at home against the Cubs. If the Phils sweep, the Astros need to lose two of their next three in order......

The Philadelphia Phillies lost to the New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park last night, 3 - 2. While the Phillies are not mathematically eliminated from the playoff hunt, their chances are now very slim. They sit 2.5 games back of the Wild Card leading Houston Astros, who beat the St. Louis Cardinals last night, 3 - 1. The Phillies now have four games left to play, starting with this evening's "Fan Appreciation" night game......

Every local sports columnist and TV anchor tried to remind us heading into the weekend that the Cincinatti Reds put an end to the Phillies' playoff hopes these past two years. They all seemed dead-on Friday night as the Phillies blew a 6 - 1 lead to fall behind the Reds, 10 - 6. The Phillies, it seems, had blown it again. Jimmy Rollins, though, continued his great run of hitting and leadership by getting......

It's happened a few times this season: Charlie Manuel makes a bad move. Bill Dancy makes an even worse move. An Ed Wade acquisition, like David Bell or Michael Tucker (better yet, David Bell AND Michael Tucker), hits into a key double play. We start noting these mistakes in our big, collective Phillyist, relishing the opportunity to rip into the team that next morning, even though it won't have an effect on anyone. It's therapeutic,......

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 Houston Astros lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates last night, 7 - 0 at PNC Park. No no, this isn't suddenly Pittsburghist. We're interested in this game because the Astros were sitting a game and a half ahead of the Phillies heading into last night's action. After the loss, the Astros find themselves only one game ahead of the Phillies, sure to make the eventual Phillies collapse that much more heartbreaking. The Phillies, Astros and......

The Phillies entered their weekend series against the Marlins hoping to take one game from the Marlins. Two games seemed to be asking a lot since the Phillies faced the two Marlins aces, Dontrelle Willis and Josh Beckett, on Saturday and Sunday. The Phillies, though, took the first two games of the series before losing a laugher last night against Beckett and the Marlins. Saturday's game was the highlight of the weekend set, however, as......

The Phillies played in front of the smallest crowd in Citizens Bank Park history last night, but the lack of attention suited them just fine: the Phils, behind winless rookie pitcher Eude Brito, topped the Braves and ace starter Tim Hudson 4-1. The Phils only needed a 2-RBI, bases loaded single from Pat Burrell to jump out to a lead. Brito took the team the rest of the way, baffling Braves hitters who knew next-to-nothing......