The call It's been an interesting decade for the West Coast slugger. He played only a little more than 200 Minor League games before being called up to the big leagues in May 2000 to take over first base for an injured Rico Brogna. The fateful phone

Gose is a speedy, 17-year-old outfielder from Bellflower (CA) High School and a product of the Urban Youth Academy. The other players signed were: Fifth-rounder Jeremy Hamilton, ninth-rounder Cody Overbeck, Daniel Hargrave (22nd round), Brandon Haislet

Never mind that Utley is crushing the competition at second base, but he also entered his third week as the leading National League vote-getter, with 1,284,961 votes -- far ahead of the second place second baseman, Mark DeRosa of the Cubs. Last week,

members of the Phillies organization gathered for a small ceremony on Pattison Avenue, outside the team's administrative offices at . The original time capsule had suffered some damage, so its contents were moved to a new capsule, which was lowered into

'[Pedro] Feliz will be in there [Wednesday],' Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. Before you can start harboring thoughts of a third-base platoon between the hot-hitting Dobbs and the slumping, yet defensively superior, Feliz, Manuel maintained that's

'I didn't have my best stuff, because I couldn't get my breaking ball over,' Myers said. 'I pretty much stunk tonight.' Myers' poor performance delayed the hopes for separation in the division race. Coming off a rousing three-game sweep of the Braves,

'It's a perfect storm of tragedy out there right now,' said Bill Clark, president and executive director of Philabundance, Philadelphia's largest hunger-relief organization. Citizens Bank is aiming to alleviate that problem by partnering with

Kline signed a Minor League deal with the Phillies on April 10, less than two weeks after the Giants released him. Philadelphia, with only J.C. Romero in the bullpen, had hoped Kline would pitch well enough to be a complementary piece. Ken Mandel 2001-

It's all part of a story about how scouts truly care about the players they follow and watch on a daily basis, the importance of a baseball academy in South Central Los Angeles and the dreams of young men who represent the future of baseball. In the

The Phillies, Angels and Cardinals are the only three teams in baseball who entered play Wednesday with winning road records. According to ESPN's research department, in only four other seasons since 1931, home teams have had a higher winning percentage