Antonio Bastardo

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH In every locker room, there is one guy who usually ends up taking the brunt of the jokes and scorn from teammates and fans alike. Since 2007, Kyle Kendrick has been that guy...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH The first impression was a positive one. In his first at-bat in a Phillies uniform, Delmon Young swatted at the third offering from Cleveland starter Zach McAllister and launched...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Roy Halladay said he was not discouraged. But when the game was six innings in and he was long gone and the scoreboard was decorated with a trio of "4's" on the home half of...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Normally, it's Phillies' slugger Ryan Howard who has to wait to face someone fresh entering the game in the late innings. But when the New York Mets decided that Jonathon Niese's...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH There have been other points in Carlos Ruiz's career when he has been forced to sit on the sidelines and watch a large number of games due to injury. But the 25-game suspension...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Pittsburgh Pirates - INSIDE PITCH Francisco Liriano has been a paradox throughout his seven major-league seasons. Take 2011, for example. The left-hander was good enough to throw a no-hitter that year but ended...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH The Phillies basic construction over the past three years has been centered around the fact that they are anchored by three $20 million pitchers in Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Ben Revere was limping around the Phillies clubhouse on Thursday afternoon, looking all the while like a man in serious pain from a quad injury. However, the new Philadelphia...

Less than 18 hours after watching the Phillies' bullpen squander a two-run lead for Roy Halladay, manager Charlie Manuel elected to let Cliff Lee try to preserve his own two-run lead with two on and two out in the seventh inning. He failed. Then,...

The Sports Xchange Pirates 5, Phillies 3 PHILADELPHIA -- Pinch hitter Brandon Inge, playing just his second game since returning from the disabled list, singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning Wednesday night as the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pinch hitter Brandon Inge hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 Wednesday night.   Roy Halladay pitched six innings of one-hit ball and...

The Sports Xchange Inge's key RBI helps Pirates win PHILADELPHIA - Brandon Inge has made himself comfortable with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and on Wednesday night he was hitting in a situation that made him that much more so. The 35-year-old Inge,...