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3 men sentenced in fatal Phillies ballpark attackAP – 13 hrs ago PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three men who fatally attacked a man outside a Philadelphia Phillies game in a brawl police say was sparked by a spilled drink have been sentenced to prison terms. Francis Kirchner, Charles Bowers and James Groves each pleaded guilty in October to voluntary manslaughter and criminal conspiracy in the July 2009 death of 22-year-old David Sale Jr. outside Citizens Bank Park, where the Phillies were playing the St. Louis Cardinals. Kirchner, 30, was sentenced Tuesday to consecutive terms totaling nine to 18 years. Bowers, 37,...

Cardinals win and Howard is injured.

Phillies win 5th straight division champion game

...No team in baseball today has a greater number of successful deceptive pitchers than the Philadelphia Phillies. They have brought together four of the best starting pitchers in the game: Roy (Doc) Halladay, a 33-year-old two–time Cy Young Award winner; Cliff Lee, 32, and also a Cy Young winner; Roy Oswalt, 33, with 150 career wins; and the 27-year-old Cole Hamels, a World Series hero three years ago...

The elder Green, 76, who lives in West Grove, was en route to Arizona and could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier, he had spoken with the New York Daily News. "It's pretty hard," Green said before he and wife Sylvia departed a Caribbean resort to be with their family. "We're all hurting pretty bad. I can't believe this could happen to any 9-year old child, much less our own." Green said he learned of his granddaughter's fate when, after seeing news of the shooting on TV, his wife phoned their son.

After two weeks of negotiations with the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees, Cliff Lee has agreed to return to the Philadelphia Phillies.

This is how charmed this theoretically motley collection of San Francisco Giants---their own manager calls them the Dirty Dozen---just so happens to be while holding the National League pennant in their happy hands: They beat the big, bad Philadelphian Goliath in spite of being outscored in the League Championship Series by one run. These Giant Davids beat the big, bad Philadelphian Goliath with a less-than-Bunyanesque eighth-inning home run that came through the courtesy of Phillies manager Charlie Manuel leaving in a righthanded reliever to face a shortstop who'd hit all but two of his 24 regular season bombs against righthanded...

3-2 in a classic nailbiter. Unreal bottom-of-the-ninth suspense. Great postseason for both clubs!

A second baseman by trade playing third base for the San Francisco Giants like . . . a second baseman by trade, and it caught up to him early and often Sunday, helping cost his team a run at the outset and putting them in jeopardy enough otherwise. A pitcher reaching base to lead off an inning and running the bases for the Philadelphia Phillies like he has a hellhound on his trail, or at least a swift center fielder ready to cut him down, then scoring the first of a five-run inning that put the Giants away for keeps...

Pitches: Sanchez vs Oswalt

ALCS and NLCS 2010 live thread Yankees vs. Rangers--TBS Phillies vs. Giants--Fox World Series will be on Fox

With the Rangers' win over the Rays in Game 5 Tuesday night, we've got the next round all sorted out. Assuming a slightly different format: Friday, Oct. 15 ALCS Game 1: Yankees @ Rangers, 8:07pm ET, TBS Saturday, Oct. 16 ALCS Game 2: Yankees @ Rangers, 4:07pm ET, TBS NLCS Game 1: Giants @ Phillies, 7:57pm ET, FOX Sunday, Oct. 17 NLCS Game 2: Giants @ Phillies, 8:19pm ET, FOX Monday, Oct. 18 ALCS Game 3: Rangers @ Yankees, 8:07pm ET, TBS Tuesday, Oct. 19 NLCS Game 3: Phillies @ Giants, 4:19pm ET, FOX ALCS Game 4: Rangers @ Yankees,...

The New York Yankees this year had a payroll of $206 million. The San Diego Padres had a payroll of $37 million — and neither team won its division. So who had the better year? I think it was Paul McCartney who once said, “I don’t care too much for money ‘cause money can’t buy you a World Series championship, although it can pretty consistently get you into the playoffs.” He’s right. Lance Berkman is making $14.5 million this year. That’s more than the combined salaries of the Indians’ entire starting lineup in their last game of the season —...

Matthew Clemmens, 21, the overweight and obnoxious Famous Philadelphia Sports Fan who purposely vomited on an 11-year-old girl at an April 14 Phillies game, was sentence yesterday to 30-90 days in jail, two years probation and 50 hours of community service.

 East W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10 New York Yankees 50 31 .617 -- 28-13 22-18 20-11 10-7 9-6 Won 2 6-4 Boston Red Sox 49 33 .598 1.5 29-17 20-16 18-17 10-9 8-2 Lost 1 6-4 Tampa Bay Rays 48 33 .593 2.0 20-19 28-14 19-10 11-6 11-6 Won 2 6-4 Toronto Blue Jays 41 42 .494 10.0 21-19 20-23 13-14 11-9 10-8 Lost 2 2-8 Baltimore Orioles 25 57 .305 25.5 16-25 9-32 9-27 4-6 5-13 Lost 1 5-5  Central W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10 Detroit...

PHILADELPHIA -- This old man has plenty left in his pitching arm. Forty-seven-year-old Jamie Moyer tossed a two-hitter to become the oldest player in major league history to throw a shutout as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 7-0 on Friday night. The Phillies confirmed the feat by Moyer, who accomplished it at 47 years, 170 days old. Phil Niekro was the previous oldest at 46 years, 188 days when he tossed a four-hitter for the New York Yankees against the Toronto Blue Jays on Oct. 6, 1986. "Cool, just doing my job," Moyer said when told of the...

Robin Roberts, the Hall of Fame right-hander who won 286 games and pitched the Philadelphia Phillies’ 1950 Whiz Kids team to the National League pennant, died Thursday at his home in Temple Terrace, Fla. He was 83.

A teenage Phillies fan was Tasered on Monday night after he ran onto the field during a game. This comes just a few weeks after an intoxicated Phillies fan vomited on an 11-year-old girl. As we all know, these incidents are far from the first such displays by Philadelphia fans. We've come to the point that you almost expect something like this to happen if you go to a sporting event in Philadelphia. Here's an incomplete history of previous boorish behavior by Philadelphia fans: • Aug. 21, 1949: Phillies fans shower the field with glass bottles in protest of an...

Philadelphia police found a new way to tame an unruly fan at Citizens Bank Park during the Phillies game, they tased him. It happened Monday night at the start of the eighth inning with the Phillies trailing the Cardinals. A teenage fan waving a rally towel jumped the fence and ran out into center field with stadium security and a Philadelphia police officer in pursuit. The police officer then fired a taser at the fan to bring him down

NBC Philadelphia Unruly Phillies Fan Assaults, Vomits on Cop and His Family Man and 11-year-old daughter were intentionally thrown up on by fan, police say By VINCE LATTANZIO Updated 8:09 AM EDT, Fri, Apr 16, 2010 Philadelphia Police A man is behind bars after allegedly assaulting an off-duty Easton police captain and his two daughters at Citizens Bank Park. Capt. Michael Vangelo and his 16- and 11-year-old girls drove down from the Lehigh Valley to watch the Phillies take on the Washington Nationals Wednesday night when the alleged assault occurred, police said. Vangelo, 43, says from the moment his family...