Halladay vs Wakefield as Phils look to find offense Sunday

      It's Roy Halladay for the Phillies today against knuckleballer, Tim Wakefield, this afternoon in Philly. The Phillies look to rebound from having a near no-hitter thrown at them by Dice K last night. The Phils bats went silent and the lone hit of the game came from Juan Castro who said he was lucky to get that hit off of Dice K.

      Dice K improves to 3-1 on the season while Kyle Kendrick fell to 2-2. Kyle was sailing along until the top of the 4th inning when the Red Sox scored 4 runs to make it 5-0 on the evening and that was the final score.
  
     The Phillies lone hit didn't come till the 8th inning, and it was good they avoided the no-hitter because of all of the negative publicity that surrounds it for the team that it is thrown against. The hit was a soft fly ball to left field that fell in for the hit and broke up the no-hitter.

    Halladay's starts so far  (thanks to www.baseball-reference.com)

Rk	Gcar	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	IP	HR	ERA	Pit	Exited
1	314	1	Apr 5	PHI	@	WSN	W,11-1	GS-7	W(1-0)	7.0	0	1.29	88	7b 3 out a10
2	315	6	Apr 11	PHI	@	HOU	W,2-1	CG	W(2-0)	9.0	0	0.56	111	9b 3 out a1
3	316	10	Apr 16	PHI		FLA	W,8-6	GS-8	W(3-0)	8.0	1	1.12	100	8t 3 out a6
4	317	14	Apr 21	PHI	@	ATL	W,2-0	SHO	W(4-0)	9.0	0	0.82	113	9b 3 out a2
5	318	19	Apr 26	PHI	@	SFG	L,1-5	GS-7	L(4-1)	7.0	1	1.80	104	7b 3 out d4
May				Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	Dec	IP	HR	ERA	Pit	Exited
6	319	23	May 1	PHI		NYM	W,10-0	SHO	W(5-1)	9.0	0	1.47	118	9t 3 out a10
7	320	28	May 6	PHI		STL	W,7-2	GS-7	W(6-1)	7.0	0	1.45	119	7t 3 out a4
8	321	33	May 12(1)	PHI	@	COL	L,3-4	GS-7		6.1	0	1.59	121	7b --3 1 out tie
9	322	38	May 18	PHI		PIT	L,1-2	CG	L(6-2)	9.0	0	1.64	132	9t 3 out d1
				PHI						71.1	2	1.64

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 5/23/2010.