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With everyone rushing to praise John Farrell for the resurgence of Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz, don't overlook the work of new pitching coach Juan Nieves, who learned a lot working alongside Don Cooper with the White Sox. … The Diamondbacks have...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH As Tom Petty once sang, the waiting is the hardest part. Two days after Roy Halladay admitted to shoulder soreness after his second straight disastrous start -- one that fattened...

The Sports Xchange By Jerry Beach, The Sports Xchange Brown, Mayberry slug Phillies past Mets NEW YORK -- There are few infields in baseball with the offensive track record of the Philadelphia Phillies'. Their outfielders, on the other hand, are...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Ruben Amaro Jr. had just broken one bit of bad news -- the ailing shoulder of Roy Halladay -- when another sore subject was broached by a member of the Phillies' media corps. And...

For years, he's been one of the most feared pitches in MLB -- a surgeon with two Cy Young Awards to his name and the boundless respect of hitters everywhere for having pinpoint control that never escaped him. But as Roy Halladay stood at the center...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Normally, a player questioning a struggling team's effort -- especially in a big market city like Philadelphia -- would be enough to cause sports talk radio lines to light up...

PHILADELPHIA — Lost amid the lopsided numbers that filled the Phillies' last two losses, in which they were outscored 20-2 by the Cleveland Indians, was a telling comment from Cliff Lee. "We have to have a little more pride than that and figure out...

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 Jerry Beach, The Sports Xchange Phillies 5, Mets 1 NEW YORK -- Ryan Howard's pinch-hit two-run double in the seventh inning snapped a tie Sunday afternoon and lifted the Philadelphia Phillies to a 5-1 win over the New York Mets and a...