Ryan Rowland-Smith pitched again yesterday, and picked up another win. This time over the New York Mets and Johan Santana. He came into the game in the 5th inning, and pitched 2 innings, giving up no hits, no runs, and striking out 3. "It's a big deal that they go to me with the game close," Rowland-Smith said. "I feel I've been pitching well lately, and it helps your confidence to pitch in games that are close."
Indeed he has been pitching well. It has been great to see. There were a couple of times early in the season where Ryan's ERA blew out a little bit, but he has been very, very steady in recent weeks, even bouncing back after giving up a few homers like he did against Dan Uggla the other day.
In bad news, poor old Chris Snelling has busted his knee up. Apparently he has suffered a 'serious left knee injury' and will undergo an MRI next week. That bites. Snello cant take a trick this year. When he was first called up to the bigs, he smacked a homer, then hurt his leg. Then he recovered and went to rehab, and was called up again. He smacked a few hits, and boasted a 2.000 OPS, but was sent back to AAA because there was no room on the Phillies roster for him. And now he has hurt his knee. We can only hope that it is nothing major, and that he will be back in action soon. It must be pretty demoralising for the poor bloke. Our thoughts are with you Chris!
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