Jamie Moyer was back to form on Sunday as he tossed six innings in leading the Phillies to a 4-2 win over the Nationals and a series sweep.   Moyer had excellent command in this game as he limited the Nationals to only three hits while striking out four thru his stint of work.   Clay Condrey and Ryan Madson earned holds in the game by each pitching one innning of relief and Brad Lidge saved his 12th of the season and 3rd of the series with a perfect ninth inning aided by a spectacular play on a ground ball up the middle corraled by Chase Utley who pivoted and threw a one hopper that Ryan Howard dug out to end the game just before the hitter crossed the bag!

Chris Coste hit his second home run of the season in the game for the Fightins, in fact Coste had two hits in the game.  Chase Utley also had a two hit game, RBI’s were earned by Howard, Coste, Utley and Pedro Feliz.   With the win the Phillies maintain their slim 1/2 game lead over the Metropolitans for first place in the N.L. East.    The Phillies now hit the road for 10 games including a west coast stint to San Diego and LA.

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As I suspected the Phillies will recall Antonio Bastardo from Triple A Lehigh Valley to take injured Brett Myer’s spot in the starting rotation on Tuesday in San Diego, no big deal in that he will face Jake Peavy in his big league debut!   The month of June is a tough stretch for the Phillies this season, they start with 10 road games thru San Diego, LA and then in New York with the Mets and then are home for 9 interleague games with Boston, Toronto and Baltimore before ending the month on the road with 7 games against Tampa, Toronto and Atlanta.   In the mix of that schedule are off days every monday with the exception of tommorrow in San Diego.   The Fightin’s did not fare so well with interleague play last season as I recall they lost every interleague series, this will be a good stretch to gage how well the boys are gonna do this season!