Phillies 11, Cardinals 6: "That's More Like It"

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The monster three-run shot Roy Halladay gave up in the top of the first -- off the bat of the surprisingly excellent Lance Berkman -- completely silenced the Philadelphia crowd and upset the WPHT radio guys like I had not previously heard the WPHT radio guys upset. "Roy Halladay just doesn't do that; he doesn't give up three-run home runs," they quite rightly observed. It wasn't just that the Phillies were behind, which would be understandably disappointing to them; it was that the fundamental order underlying the universe that keeps hamburgers from taking bites out of us had been undercut by Roy Halladay allowing a three-run home run in the top of the first inning. When the tide turned in the sixth on home runs from Howard and Ibanez, I honestly lost track of how many times the WPHT crew said, "That's more like it," but believe me when I tell you that it was kind of a lot. Halladay was Halladay the rest of the way, and finished the night with a completely respectable line of just those three runs on three hits and a walk, striking out eight. In the end, all was well. But for about an hour there, the very fabric of space and time was nearly rent asunder, or something. 

More riding on that right arm than you can ever imagine.

KS