A rare E-C

Christine and I had to run a couple of errands in Philadelphia today. It felt weird driving over the Walt Whitman Bridge for non-baseball purposes on a Sunday afternoon with the Phillies in town. It felt almost as weird as the Phillies batting in the top half of the innings in Citizens Bank Park.

When we were leaving a store, I spotted a TV that had the game on and asked Christine if she wanted to check the score. She walked over and I thought she smiled after getting a look at the screen. I gave her a thumb's up. Thumb's down, she replied from across the room.

"Four nothing Blue Jays, and Jamie Moyer has the bases loaded with one out," she said when she returned.

But in the car, we heard that the Phillies were beating, not trailing, the Blue Jays 4-0.

Christine immediately realized her mistake - she assumed the 0 applied to the home team, forgetting that in this weird case, the Blue Jays were the home team. Christine rarely makes a mistake like this (usually it's me), so we had a few good-natured laughs on the way home, especially every time an announcer talked about the "home" team.

"Stop rubbing it in," she'd scold the radio.

Today's games, or SoxandPhils lefties old and young: Jamie Moyer set a record for most home runs given up and also became the 40th pitcher to log 4,000 major league innings as the Phillies beat the Jays 11-2. The win of the "road" series gave the Phils a 10-8 interleague record this year.

The Red Sox, meanwhile, who are dropping like flies (Dustin Pedroia, Clay Buchholz and Victor Martinez suffered injuries of various degrees this weekend) got a dominating performance out of Jon Lester - nine strikeouts in the 5-1 complete game over the Giants. Tim Lincecum didn't hold up his end of the bargain as he was gone after three innings.

We have a busy week coming up, so posts will be light, but we'll do our best to keep our Cal Ripken streak (not one day missed since Jan. 1, 2008) intact.