Braves 7, Filthydelphia 5

-Gotta like any game you can steal when Lance Cormier is on the mound. He sucked, by the way. He was able to hold the Phils at bay for most of the first four innings, allowing a few hits (including a Jimmy Rollins homer) and picking up a walk before the fifth inning when the true shitty pitcher came out to play. Chris Coste singled, Chris Roberson singled, and both runners advanced on a wierdass wild pitch. The ball hit a foot in front of the plate, bounced up and hit the bottom of McCann's mask and then slid behind the chest protector. According to MLB rules, the runners were awarded a base because of it.

-After Rollins walked, Iguchi doubled in a pair and Burrell singled in Rollins to make it 6-4. Ryan Howard, Aaron Rowand, and Greg Dobbs were due up so Cox goes to Ron Mahay and he K's the first two and gets a weak grounder to first. He gets the victory.

-Braves scored early when Willie doubled, advanced on a groundout, and scored on a sacfly by Chipper. Another Willie double with two outs in the third preceded a Kelly Johnson homer to make it 3-0 and then things got nutty. It goes down as back-to-back triples by Chipper and Teix, but the truth is, it should have been a single and an out. Burrell, who is the immovable object, completely sucks and bellyflops after a Chipper single, turning it into a triple. Then Teix lines the very next pitch toward Burrell and it goes off his glove, generously called a triple. That made it 4-0.

-A Francoeur homer on the first pitch of the fourth was followed by singles by Andruw and Mr. Dynamic. After a weird bunting mishap with Cormier, Willie K's and the runners are still out there, but KJ singles in Andruw. Andruw nearly hit a homer of his own in the 8th, but settled for an RBI triple.

-That was big because Soriano gave up his obligatory homer to make it 7-5 in the 8th. Wickmoo followed by allowing a leadoff double to Coste, but was able to get a flyout and a pair of groundouts to end it.

-The Mets and Padres lost yesterday so the Braves are 2.5 GB in the division, a half-game back in the Wild Card. At about 2:45 when this post was typed up, the Mets are tied 4-4 with the Marlins in the top of the fourth and the Pads have a 5-1 lead on the Reds, who everyone but the Braves can beat. Buddy Carlyle and Jamie Moyer face off tonight on ESPN. Joe Morgan and Jon Miller have the call. I really should have got my prozak filled Friday...