Philadelphia Phillies

1The devastating tornado in Moore, Okla., last week hit too close to home for Josh Fields. The 2004 first-round pick of the Chicago White Sox, who is playing at Lehigh Valley this season, grew up in Stillwater, Okla., and went to Oklahoma State, both of w

WASHINGTON - The latest reminder of how fragile young pitching is happened last week, when Minnesota demoted its opening-day starter to triple A. For two seasons, Vance Worley mystified hitters as a mainstay in the Phillies' rotation. No one threw a higher percentage of his pitches for called strikes.

ALLENTOWN - Sal Rende isn't the first person to make a comparison between Cody Asche and Chase Utley. He's just the most qualified person to ever compare the two because he has been around both for an extended amount of time.

Jesse Biddle delivered another dominating performance Tuesday night, going a season-high 72/3 innings without allowing a run during double-A Reading's win over Altoona.

BOSTON - This was supposed to be the week that Shane Victorino played the outfield again at Citizens Bank Park.

ESPN used to have a show that listed five reasons you couldn't blame someone for something even though it appeared as if that someone really deserved the blame. One episode focused on why you couldn't blame Mitch Williams for the Phillies' 1993 World Series loss.

A black cat scurried across Richie Ashburn's Gladwyne Village grave site on a gloomy Thursday morning, an eerie omen of the ill fortune some believe awaits the Phillies legend's final resting place.

WASHINGTON - In a season of offensive inconsistency, Domonic Brown has been among the Phillies bright spots. Brown teamed up with the beleaguered Phillies bullpen in Saturday's 5-3 win over the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park.

After jumping out to an early 2-0 lead, the bats went into a funk until Delmon Young produced the game-winning hit in the eighth and the Phillies' relievers shut the door in a 5-3 win over the Nationals. You probably never thought you'd see Michael Young score from first on a single, but that's how the Phillies produced the winning run in the eighth inning. After Michael Young drew a one-out walk, Ryan Howard struck out for the fourth time...

The Phillies top the Nationals, 5-3, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.