Sometimes players should take a "no comment"

Phillies minor leaguer Adam Eaton has been getting torched. In two starts (A and AA), he has lasted a total of seven innings with a 12.85 ERA and a 1.71 WHIP.

But the $24 million man says it's not all bad after his latest outing against the Portland Sea Dogs (Red Sox affiliate):

But the way I felt and the way I made the adjustment throwing breaking balls for strikes (later in the game) and (the fact I was) able to get ahead and put some guys away with the slider and curveball ... I take positives from that.

And:

I made a few bad pitches. Definitely would like to have one back, the grand slam. Learned from that mistake and ended up striking him out the next time.

Yeah, way to show those AA'ers who's the boss.

In the bigs: Kyle Kendrick won his 20th career game in typical fashion: He allowed a lot of baserunners, but kept them off the scoreboard. He kept the Phillies in the game, and the offense provided just enough to comfortably beat the Marlins, 5-0. With a Mets loss, the Phils' leads are 2.5 over the Fish, three over the Metropolitans.

A really good start by Tim Wakefield has the Red Sox beating the Royals 8-2. Hopefully, they will hold on to remain three games behind the Rays, who scored six in the 9th this afternoon to come back on the Indians. The Yankees, who lost Joba Chamberlain last night and Ivan Rodriguez tonight, are winning in Texas. The Twins won and the White Sox are winning. One night, all the contenders will finish their games early so I can get my head around the standings.