Moyer, Phillies stop Cardinals

By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • July 11, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — Jamie Moyer has been around baseball long enough to understand one undeniable fact. "We still have three more games to play -- we won a series, and that's important," Moyer said after seven strong innings Thursday. "We strung two games together, and that's important. We scored runs when we needed to -- that's important. And our bullpen pitched good too. We have a lot of pluses today." And now those pluses need to be carried into tomorrow and into the next day. Moyer picked up the win and Ryan Howard continued to shake off a three-month malaise with a pair of home runs in the Phillies' 4-1 win over St. Louis in front of 44,241 fans at Citizens Bank Park. While the offense still sputtered at times, Howard extended his season-high hit streak to 13 consecutive... [read full story]