By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • October 6, 2008 MILWAUKEE — For now, it's a distant memory from another time -- a time when two cities built a rivalry on the baseball diamond and the basketball court. That memory is...
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • October 6, 2008 MILWAUKEE — There was a time not so long ago that the Phillies dreaded getting to the eighth inning. It was a little more than a month ago that the Phillies blew two...
Check our new Phillies blog at http://blogs.courierpostonline.com/phillies/ By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • October 2, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — The talk before Thursday's Game 2 of the National League Divisional Series...
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • October 3, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — Sometimes first impressions are wrong. A perfect example of this came Thursday night when Shane Victorino tore into a CC Sabathia cutter that the monstrous...
Given their choice, it's a good bet the Phillies didn't want Brett Myers at the plate for what may very well be the most important at-bat in this best-of-five National League Divisional Series against Milwaukee.
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • September 29, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — For the Phillies, Sunday afternoon had all the earmarks of spring training with a little more at stake. Chris Coste had enough starts at catcher...
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • September 28, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — All Brad Lidge wanted was a ground ball. The Phillies closer faced a bases-loaded situation and had already uncorked a slider that Carlos Ruiz...
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • September 28, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — Shane Victorino didn't partake in the postgame celebration. The Phillies center fielder hobbled through the clubhouse Saturday as his teammates...
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • September 27, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — With three games to play, the Phillies certainly have full control of their playoff destiny since they opened Friday night in sole possession of...
By MICHAEL RADANO • Courier-Post Staff • September 24, 2008 PHILADELPHIA — This time Brett Myers contends he knows what the issue is with his pitching and he'll be ready for his next start. "I just didn't have any angle on...