Mike Adams (baseball)

PHILADELPHIA — There are no mid-90s fastballs or strikeout totals from Jonathan Pettibone that make you glance at the stat sheet a second time. His composure makes up for that. The 22-year-old Pettibone has consistently displayed the type of...

PHILADELPHIA — Charlie Manuel said he's thinking about trying Freddy Galvis at yet another new position. I absolutely think he should give it a try. "I've kind of thought about playing him [in center fielder], seeing how he could do," Manuel...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH At the beginning of the Phillies seven-game west coast trip through San Francisco and Phoenix, Kyle Kendrick held the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants to two runs...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Late Friday night, Justin De Fratus arrived in Phoenix to join the Phillies bullpen. He wasn't needed Saturday. On Sunday, the 25-year-old right-hander was asked to get an...

Diamondbacks 3, Phillies 2: Miguel Montero broke a tie with a home run leading off the bottom of the eighth inning as Arizona won its fifth straight game. Montero crushed the first pitch from Mike Adams (1-3) off the right-field foul pole. Tony Sipp (2-...

PHOENIX — Miguel Montero homered off the right-field foul pole leading off the eighth inning to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks past the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Friday night for their fifth straight victory. Martin Prado had an RBI single and...

The Sports Xchange By Jonathan Dalton, The Sports Xchange Montero's HR sends Arizona to fifth straight win PHOENIX -- Miguel Montero made a prophet of Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson on Friday night. Montero, dropped to the eighth spot in the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Charlie Manuel became the winningest manager in club history when the Phillies completed a regular season-ending, three-game sweep of the Braves in 2011, which also gave the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Cliff Lee had a 7.30 strikeouts-to-walks ratio in 2012, the best mark of any major league pitcher. Lee also had a 3.16 ERA (15th best in the National League) and a 1.11 WHIP...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH There's good news and bad news for the Philadelphia Phillies. The bad news first? Okay. Right-hander Roy Halladay will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder and it...

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 Dave Del Grande, The Sports Xchange Utley solves Lincecum, Phillies on verge of sweep of Giants SAN FRANCISCO -- Chase Utley hadn't had much success against San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum in his career, so he...