Stupid rain

So, we're just two games up on the Wild Card with little more than three weeks left in the season. It's raining. Our best pitcher is scheduled to start. What do you do? Start the game, or wait and hope it stops raining?

I'd go with Option B; unfortunately, Option A was what happened. And it was even worse than I imagined. The game was delayed in the first inning after the Rays loaded the bases against Jon Lester with one out.

Fortunately, they canceled this game and will try to play a doubleheader on Sunday. But that means that coming down this tight stretch run, we're going to have one fewer start from Lester.

Oh well, we've overcome worse.

Tonight's completed game: The Phillies actually won one, 4-2 over the Mets, behind a strong Cole Hamels outing: one run in 6 1/3 innings. Shane Victorino was 3-3 with with two walks and a run.

But the only thing that matters these days is who's on tap to close. Tonight it was Ryan Madson. We don't understand why they didn't leave Brett Myers out there because he needed just six pitches to set the Mets down in the 8th. Madson gave up a run, but got out of a jam with the help of a double play.

We miss Harry: In the bottom of the 8th, Chris Wheeler blathered about the Phillies doing something to the team behind them so that they'll be a little bit "closer to a happy ending." I wonder if he knows what he said.