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DENVER (AP) -- Arizona isn't the only team happy with the Curt
Schilling trade.
Travis Lee went 3-for-5 with four RBI and Mike Lieberthal
scored three runs and drove in two as the Philadelphia Phillies
took a 10-run lead Sunday, then hung on to beat the Colorado
Rockies 10-9.
"I think the trade worked out for both parties," said Lee,
acquired from Arizona on July 26.
"The Phillies didn't want to lose a guy like Schilling, but
they know they weren't in a race and they can build around a core
group of guys," Lee said. "Arizona is a different situation.
They've spent so much money, they have to win. They're pulling out
everything to win this year and if they don't, I think they're
going to be in big trouble.
"They pulled out all the stops and if you weren't producing,
they got rid of you. It was not a bad deal to get rid of me and get
Schilling, because he's a great starter. But there are some guys
who aren't going to develop. (Erubiel Durazo) was a big stud, but
they sent him down because he was struggling for a couple weeks."
Lee had his first three-hit game for the Phillies, who stopped a
five-game losing streak. Pat Burrell had two hits and two RBI.
"Here I get to play every day," Lee said. "I get to face both
right- and left-handers instead of platooning. I know that it would
be good for me in the long run, and I'm feeling comfortable here."
Colorado made it close with one run in the sixth, four in the
seventh, one in the eighth and three in the ninth.
After Todd Helton's two-run single with two outs in the ninth
off Vincente Padilla, Jeff Cirillo hit an RBI single. With runners
at first and second, Padilla then retired pinch-hitter Butch Huskey
on a hard grounder to third.
"You just know, that with this ballpark and their lineup, you
can't give up outs," Phillies manager Terry Francona said. "It is
not a fluke when this happens, because it happens here all the
time."
Pinch-hitter Terry Shumpert had a three-run homer as the Rockies
lost for the 23rd time in 31 games. Helton went 2-for-5 with three
RBI, raising his league-leading average to .380.
"We had to overcome a 10-0 hole and we came up a hit short of
doing it," Shumpert said.
Bruce Chen (6-1) allowed five runs and 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Chen, acquired in a July 12 trade from Atlanta for Andy Ashby, is
2-1 in five starts for Philadelphia.
Pedro Astacio (9-8) lasted only four batters into the fifth
inning, allowing six runs and seven hits.
"Pedro had his good stuff early and lost it," Colorado manager
Buddy Bell said. "He got up in the strike zone and when he nearly
hit Scott Rolen in the head, it was time to go get him."
Lee hit a two-run single in the fourth, a liner that went off
Astacio's glove and into center field, and the Phillies made it 7-0
in the fifth on Kevin Jordan's RBI double, Lieberthal's two-run
single off Scott Karl, Burrell's sacrifice fly and Chen's RBI
groundout.
Burrell hit a run-scoring single in the sixth and Lee followed
with a two-run single.
Helton had an RBI grounder in the bottom half, Shumpert homered
in a four-run seventh that included Jeffrey Hammonds' RBI single
off Ed Vosberg, and Vosberg threw a run-scoring wild pitch in the
eighth that made it 10-6.
Game notes
A team has reached double figures in runs 22 times in 53
games at Coors Field this season. ... Philadelphia traded 2B Mickey
Morandini to Toronto for a player for a player to be named. ...
Marlon Anderson, currently at Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, will
join the Phillies on Monday in Philadelphia. ... Jordan was a late
addition to the lineup, the result of the Morandini trade. ...
Walker was back for the Rockies after a two-day bout with the flu.
... Colorado optioned RHP David Lee to Triple-A Colorado Springs
and recalled RHP Craig House from Colorado Springs. ... Both
benches received a warning after Chen hit Walker in the back with
no outs in the sixth. ... Colorado manager Buddy Bell, who argued
that Chen should have been ejected, was thrown out for the sixth
time this year.
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