NL East Daily Recap from 7-9-09

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NL East Daily Recap from 7-9-09

Filed Under (Daily Recap) by mrose at 8:00 AM on 07-10-2009

Werth(background) hits a homer in 4 straight games

The Phillies kept on truckin’ Thursday night, even after falling behind early.Â The Phillies rallied from an early 3-0 deficit in the finale of a four game set against the Reds to take three of four, winning this one 9-6.Â Jamie Moyer(8-6) went the minimum required giving up six runs for the win, while Brad Lidge recorded his 17th save of the season.Â Jayson Werth hit a solo shot in the sixth inning which gives him a home run in each of his last four games.Â The Phillies welcome in the Pirates this weekend, for more go to Phillies Phandom.

Micah Owings(6-9) took the loss while failing to get through five and giving up seven runs and Encarnacion and Phillips homered in the losing effort.

The Marlins with a huge come from behind win

The Florida Marlins did something in the eighth inning in Thursday night which they had never done before, score ten runs in one inning.Â They entered the inning trailing 7-4 and looking to be headed to a loss and 3.5 games back of first, they left the inning shockingly up 14-7 with much better fortunes.Â Ross Gload actually made the first two outs of that inning, both with fielders choice grounders to earn RBI’s.Â Kiko Calero(2-0) was welcomed off the disabled list with a relif win, while former Met Scott Schoeneweis(1-1) took a rough loss for the D’Backs.Â We’ll see if the two teams can try not to combine for over 20 runs with Ricky Nolasco and Dan Haren on the mound tomorrow night in AZ.

Atkins comes through in the clutch

The severly struggling Garret Atkins came up to the plate in the eighth inning and got a hit that might just help get his confidence back, a two run double to win it.Â Against usually solid Mike Gonzalez of the Braves(3-2), Atkins was able to get the best of this and get the Rockies to their fourth straight win and fifth in seven.Â Juan Rincon(1-0) got the win in relief as Huston Street worked a shaky ninth for his 22nd save of the season.Â The Braves just couldn’t shut the door on the Rockies, after taking three seperate leads, they allowed the Rox back everytime.Â They ‘ll hope for better luck tomorrow.Â Check out The Braves Baseball Blog to follow the Braves more.

Ouch, 4IP 8ER

There was a point this year when the Mets had to consider Livan Hernandez their second best pitcher and he was at one point 5-1.Â Now he is 5-5 after losing in brutal fashion to the Dodgers on Thursday. Hernandez(5-5) got through four pain staking innings giving up eight runs on eleven hits and four more walks, and led the Mets to an 11-2 loss and series loss.Â Every single Dodgers position player that started the game got a hit in this game, and just when you wondered if the Mets could gain some confidence, there it goes.Â Randy Wolf(4-3) pitched into the seventh for the cruising victory.Â The Mets hope that facing a team with a losing record will be a remedy tomorrow night in Flushing.Â The Real Dirty Mets Blog has all the info you want on the Mets.

Lannon shaky in loss

John Lannan has been very solid for most of the year, and was tonight through five innings, then things got bad.Â Lannan(6-6) took the loss while working into the sixth inning and giving up five runs as the Nats lost 9-6 to the Astros on Thursday night.Â The Nationals mustered offense early, but decided to quit after the fourth inning which didn’t help the pitching.Â Alberto Arias(2-0) got the win in relief for the ‘Stros who evened their record for the night with the win.

Earlier in the night, they finished a suspended game from May, that was played in Washington.Â The Nationals got the victory with a final score of 12-11.Â Odd stat you will likely never see again? Joel Hanrahan(1-3) gets the win in that game since he pitched for the Nats, but has since been traded to the Pirates.Â The loss goes to LaTroy Hawkins(1-3).Â The two teams continue the rest of their series, in hopefully normal fashion starting tomorrow night in Houston.Â Check out CenterfieldGate for more Nats News.