On a beautiful day in beautiful South Philly, Burrell and the boys took the rubber game against the ‘Stros with a 10-2 smack down. Burrell’s MVP swagger proved to be contagious as Brett Myeres went for 7 strong innings, striking out 8 and only allowing 1 earned run. In honor of Houston’s namesake, the Phils turned Citizen’s Bank Park into a launching pad as they sent 4 balls into orbit.
Burrell went 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored, 2 RBIs, a walk, and a home run. Burrell looked to be saying “anything you can do, I can do better” as Burrell’s HR followed Ryan Howard’s as they went back to back in the 6th off of Oscar Villareal. Burrell’s home run was actually an elevator shaft pop-up, but the ball went so high that is surpassed the elevation of Sputnik, the ball then waited for the earth to rotate and then re-entered earth’s atmosphere, landing in the left field seats.
In English, Oscar’s last name means “real house”. In two innings pitched he gave up three hits, two of them being home runs, it is safe to say Oscar, and the rest of the Astros, got really housed in the city of brotherly love.
Burrell is 7th in average, 3rd in On Base Percentage, 3rd in RBIs, and 1st in HRs and slugging. Last time a Phil was first in slugging was Brett Myers on a street corner in Boston two seasons ago. Remember, hugs are better than slugs.
Pats Line for last night:
| AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG. |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .373 |
Time to Meet the Mets!
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1 erik // Apr 18, 2008 at 3:23 pm
That Burrell home run was hit so high that it disappeared out of sight for now less than 20 seconds before it suddenly came rocketing out of the clouds and into the first row in left field. Thank goodness for the Earth’s rotation, the catcher would have fielded that one.
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