their starters led the league in innings pitched, and their bullpen had the best ERA in the majors. not sure if that is still true to this day, but if you told me that in the beginning of the year the phils starters would lead the majors in innings in august, I would have thought that at least the division would have been a wrap.

and hamels does not have a win since july 3. how is that possible? granted, he's had a bad start or 3 mixed in there, but the lack of run support for him in particular has been abysmal. and more importantly (to me at least), when i watch the games, it's the offense who frustrates me to no end. it's the situational hitting, their approach at the plate, it's everything. and howard still doesn't bother me. maybe in the beginning of the year he was quite bad, but him and victorino have been producing most of the phils' runs the past month or two.