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A solid outing from Moyer and plenty of offense helped the Phillies to an 8-3 win and a series victory over Braves.
The Phillies continued their terrific starting pitching against the Braves. After a combined 17 scoreless innings from Halladay and Kendrick, Moyer was no slouch tonight. He pitched six innings and gave up only two unearned runs with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts.
With a 5-2 lead, Moyer found himself in some trouble in the sixth when Brian McCann hit a leadoff single and Yunel Escobar hit a one-out double to center field, which Victorino had in his glove before dropping it, to put runners on second and third.
Jason Heyward stepped into the batter's box, and Moyer quickly fell behind 3-0. But he battled back and struck him out looking on a 3-2 cutter. The Phillies would later add three more runs to cruise to an 8-3 win.
The Phillies did their part offensively against right-handed sinker ball pitcher Derek Lowe, along with a little help from the Braves defense. They scored 5 runs off Lowe in his five innings. Included in that was a throwing error by Martin Prado on a dead double-play ball that scored a run.
All said, the Phillies scored with 2 RBIs from Shane Victorino and one each from Howard, Werth, Ibanez, Castro, and Ross Gload.
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