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Pablo Sandoval has been passed over three times for the All-Star roster, but Giants manager Bruce Bochy said there remains a slight chance his switch-hitting sensation will be on the National League team.

The Cincinnati Reds fell 9-6 to the Philadelphia Phillies last night. Jayson Werth hit a home run for his fourth straight game and all-star Chase Utley hit an inside-the-park homer for the Phillies.

Jayson Werth has become the latest Philadelphia Phillies outfielder to make the National League All-Star team.

Say it soft and it's almost like praying . . . . Say it loud and it's almost like champagne-spraying . . . All Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi needed to say the other day was "Roy . . . " The knee-jerk reaction went off like a 21-gun salute.

By ROB MAADDI Shane Victorino's RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning lifted the Philadelphia Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on Wednesday night.Jayson Werth hit a solo homer for the NL East-leading Phillies, who are 5-1 since losing 14 of 18.Reliever Ryan Madson tossed two scoreless innings to earn the win in his longest outing this ...

One day later, with the memory of a 22-run pounding still bringing a smile to his face, Charlie Manuel made no apologies for the no-mercy approach of the Phillies' hitters.

Chase Utley blasted a three-run homer to cap a franchise record-tying 10-run first inning as Philadelphia cruised to a 22-1 romp over Cincinnati in this opener to a four-game series.

Chase Utley blasted a three-run homer to cap a franchise record-tying 10-run first inning as Philadelphia cruised to a 22-1 romp over Cincinnati in this opener to a four-game series.

For much of the past month, as losses and injuries mounted, the Mets were able to take comfort in one thing: At least they weren't far behind Philadelphia.

Rodrigo Lopez took a three-hitter into the seventh inning in his first outing in two years, helping the Philadelphia Phillies snap a six-game home losing streak with a 7-2 victory over the New York Mets on Friday night.

Face it: The Mets don't exactly deserve first place right now anyway. Livan Hernandez had his shortest outing this season and the Mets suffered a pair of mental fielding miscues that frustrated Jerry Manuel and the coaches in a 7-2 loss to the Phillies Friday night.

Tomorrow, Rollins will return to that role after four games on the bench. "Tuesday, he's going to be back in the lineup and he's going to be in the leadoff hole, unless something really changes between now and then," Manuel said.

On one side of the clubhouse, the shortstop sat in his freshly pressed shirt and his blue jeans, trying to make some sense of another hitless night.

Turning points are difficult to identify when you still might be in the midst of one, so as the Phillies take the field in Atlanta tonight, the questions remain: Were their two straight victories in Toronto, during which they scored 15 runs and reached base in 43.2 percent of their plate appearances, the beginning of the end of their most trying ...

Posted on Mon, Jun. 29, 2009 Werth, Utley help Phillies win last series vs. AL dmurphy@phillynews.com TORONTO - Asking a baseball player to root out the underlying causes for the various idiosyncracies of a season is often like asking an ocean wave to explain why it rises and falls and, eventually, crashes onto the beach.

Philadelphia Phillies Jayson Werth and Carlos Ruiz are congratulated by teammates after scoring the tying and go ahead runs in the fourth inning of their MLB Interleague baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

J.A. Happ pitched a five-hit shutout, Jayson Werth homered twice and the Phillies beat the Blue Jays 10-0 yesterday in Toronto.

From left to right, Phillies' Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth, and Carlos Ruiz celebrate in front of Toronto Blue Jays catcher Raul Chavez after Werth and Ruiz were brought home by a Chase Utley two-run triple during Philadelphia's 5-4 victory.

Brad Mills may one day be a quality pitcher at the major-league level. However, as he proved yesterday afternoon in a 10-0 thumping by the Phillies at the Rogers Centre, right now he is not ready for prime time.

Jayson Werth homered twice, drove in three runs and fell a triple short of the cycle, as the Phillies pounded out 14 hits in a 10-0 victory against Toronto for just their second win in the last 11 games.