Game #28

PHILLIES 4, CARDINALS 0

The Cardinals are looking awfully inconsistant with the bats. Tonight was a disturbingly lackluster performance at the plate. The Cardinals failed badly at putting together rallies as they scattered six hits and scored no runs to show for them. The quality at bats were just not there.

Brad Penny pitched a quality game and was only hurt by the long ball. He allowed three earned runs through six innings, and the three runs were all scored on home runs.

Matt Holliday is looking worse and worse, and I don't see a lick of improvement. I really do think he is pressing now. He's playing under a lot of pressure, and he may be having trouble dealing with it. Holliday has only driven in three runs since April 19.

The Cardinals just looked uncomfortable today. It was disappointing; I'm not going to lie. I don't know where the fire was today, but it just was not there. It happens. Let's just hope it doesn't happen too often and in extended periods of time.

Boxscore courtesy of mlb.com.