Phillies 5 Astros 4 -- WOW!!!

John Mayberry, Jr. prepares to win the game.

His single sails over the head of Michael Bourn.

Wow. Double wow. Planned on having the Phillies game (via ESPN3) playing on the classroom computer this afternoon. Alas, the game was not on ESPN3. We left school around 2:30 and the Astros were up 1-zip after 6 innings. On the way home Doc Halladay got pulled (due to his pitch count) and JC Romero and David Herndon got smoked in the 7th and it was quickly 4-0. By 3 PM were at the bus stop waiting for The Playmaker and the Phillies had cut it to 4-2. We quickly got in the house and fired up the TV. Ryan Madson and ... wait for it ... Danys Baez pitched the 8th and 9th without yielding a run. p Onto the bottom of the 9th we went. p And then some serious sheeeeet went down. Jimmy Rollins led off with a single. Ryan Howard singled (with 2 strikes, no less). Rollins stole third, but Howard stayed put at first even though J-Roll drew a throw at third. At that point we wanted to get a gun and shoot new first base coach Sam Perlozzo. (He was their third base coach last year. He sucks. He sucks something awful. But he's there this year because they didn't want to give Davey Lopes a raise.) Speaking of people who SUCK, Raul Ibanez was up next. He failed to move the runners. That's what happens when you hit a piss-ass-pop-up to the second baseman. So it was first and third, one out. Still trailing, 4-2. Jayson Werth Ben Francisco singled in Rollins to make it 4-3. Carlos Ruiz then singled to load the bases. (Of course, had Dumb Ass Perlozzo sent Howard on Rollins' steal, the game would have been tied.) Chase Utley Wilson Valdez singled to tie the game. And then John Mayberry, Jr. singled over the head of center fielder Michael Bourn to win the game. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. A definite Bill Simmons-Father-Son-Moment that probably won't ever be forgotten.