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Well, I took a little break from the Mets while they were stinking up the joint, and, well, they might not be finished yet.

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.

When it comes to finances, stability and the most important category of all - pitching - San Francisco is in remarkably good shape for a team so widely written off in spring training.

It's about the long haul for Raul Ibanez, not a three-game weekend series against the New York Mets, not even the All-Star Game.

A Pennsylvania man who donated a box of old baseball cards to an inner-city church in Philadelphia learned later they were worth about $35,000. The Rev.

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.

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.

The Philadelphia Phillies limp back home tied atop the NL East after a dreadful road trip.

Philadelphia Phillies' Jimmy Rollins, right, celebrates his go-ahead solo home run in the seventh inning of an interleague game with the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, June 14.

Raul Ibanez is eligible to be activated from the disabled list tonight, just in time for the opener of the Phillies' three-game series against the rival Mets at Citizens Bank Park.

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 ...

Michael Taylor slugged his 15th homer, a two-run shot that capped a six-run second inning, as the Reading Phillies beat the Altoona Curve, 8-6, in the Eastern League last night.

Whenever they are faced with deciding which player to call up from the minor leagues to plug a roster void, the Phillies always ask one question above all others.

The 33-year-old Lopez hasn't pitched in the majors since 2007, when he was 5-4 with Colorado.

If y ou've been to a lot of book signings and autograph sessions, you know that you don't often get a lot of gab time with the person delivering the signature.

Jair Jurrjens allowed his first hit with two outs in the seventh inning on a night the Atlanta Braves finally gave him some run support, beating the reeling Philadelphia Phillies 11-1 on Wednesday in Atlanta.

The most famous cleanup hitter in Yankees history never needed a day off, a fact we'll be reminded of this Saturday, when baseball celebrates the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig Day.

Cito Gaston promised a lineup shuffle, and delivered by benching the slumping Vernon Wells.

The Philadelphia Phillies placed left-handed pitcher Antonio Bastardo on the 15-day disabled list with a left posterior shoulder stain.

Ibanez worked out at Double A Reading yesterday, participating in batting and fielding practice as a final test before beginning a slate of rehab appearances.