This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 7, Dodgers 6

Phillies 1
Dodgers 5

WP: Tom Candiotti (1-3)
LP: Ben Rivera (1-2)

The Phillies offense was without much life in Los Angeles for game two of a three game road series, and the Dodgers used a three-run outburst to bury the Phillies in the eighth inning for a 5-1 victory.

Things were looking bleak as the Phillies limped into their weekend series with arch-rival New York Mets.  The Phillies were sitting at 9-14 and 7.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves on Friday.  They desperately needed to right the ship and get back on the winning track.  The Phillies responded by doing just that, improving to 12-14 with 4.5 games separating them from the Braves who dropped a weekend series to the Detroit Tigers.  After going 3 and 5 over the eight game home stand by splitting the series with the Cardinals and losing 3 out of 4 against NL Central leading Pittsburgh Pirates the Phillies got back on the winning track.

Kyle Kendrick was first up on Friday night; he proceeded to throw a complete game shutout scattering 3 hits (Watch video here).  Dillon Gee went toe-to-toe with Kendrick for 5 innings by not allowing the Phillies to score either.  They would get to Gee in the sixth with a Michael Young single (Watch video here) and a big 3-run homer from Ryan Howard (Watch video here).  That was all Kendrick would need as he picked up his second win on the young season.  Kyle has been the Phillies most consistent starting pitcher thus far pitching to a 2.41 ERA over 33 and 2/3 innings.  The Phillies continued to step on the gas Saturday afternoon at Citi Field.

Game 1 Box Score

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 5, Padres 3

Phillies 5
Padres 3

WP: Danny Jackson (2-0)
LP: Frank Seminara (1-2)
S: Mitch Williams (9)

Lenny Dykstra's lead-off home run to start the game jumped the Phillies off to a  good start and a four-run third inning was enough to hold off a late-inning rally by the Padres as Danny Jackson picked up his second win with the Phillies in game two of a west coast road trip. The Phillies won their second straight game against San Diego by the score of 5-3 to start the road trip off on a good note.

Everything was going smoothly. Roy Halladay was locked in on the mound. Chase Utley and Ryan Howard each hit massive solo home runs after being split up in the lineup by manager Charlie Manuel. The Phillies held a 3-1 lead as they handed the game over to the back end of the bullpen just the way they like to have it set up, but Antonio Bastardo and Mike Adams were unable to get the game in to the hands of closer Jonathan Papelbon and the Pittsburgh Pirates took game three of the series by a score of 5-3.

Full Box Score

The Phillies were shut out for the fourth time this year losing Tuesday night to the Pirates 2-0.  In perspective, the Phillies were only shut seven times all of 2012.  Cole Hamels pitched 8 strong innings allowing 2 runs while striking out 6 and walking only 1 batter.  Hamels’ counterpart, left-hander Jeff Locke pitched 6 shutout innings of 2 hit baseball making the Phillies offense look feeble which is not hard to do these days.

That’s not saying the Phillies did not have their chances to score.  They wasted a leadoff triple by John Mayberry Jr. in the fourth by running on contact with no outs on a Ben Revere ground ball.  It was said in the post-game press conference that it was Charlie’s decision to run on contact in that situation which I wholeheartedly disagree with.  Then with 1 out and Domonic Brown on second and Ben Revere on first, Erik Kratz hits into an inning-ending double play to thwart the Phillies threat.

On a chilly Monday evening in South Philly, a 22 year old made his major league debut on the bump for the 8-11 Phillies, fresh off the heels of a late inning win on Sunday over the Cardinals.  Jonathan Pettibone pitched 5 1/3 innings, striking out 6 walking none and allowing 2 runs, both of them solo home runs off the bats of Pedro Alvarez in the third and Russell Martin in the fifth.  Pettibone faced off against A.J. Burnett who was wild at times but left the game with his team still having a chance for victory.  That just wasn’t in the cards for the Pirates on this night.

The Phillies played one of their most sound defensive games of the year with players making smart decisions all over the field.  Domonic Brown threw out Russell Martin in the second trying to stretch a single into a double.  John Mayberry Jr made a diving catch (Video Here) in the first to escape trouble.  The Phillies turned two double plays to erase any kind of Pirate threat.  The offense got a clutch two out hit Jimmy Rollins to score Erik Kratz in the sixth for the go-ahead and eventual winning run.  The bullpen pitched well for the final 3 2/3 innings allowing only 2 hits while striking out 5.  Raul Valdes picked up his first win of the season while Jonathan Papelbon earned his 4^th save in as many chances. 

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 2, Dodgers 0

Dodgers 3
Phillies 7

WP: Danny Jackson (1-0)
LP: Kevin Gross (2-2)
SV: Mitch Williams (6)

Danny Jackson picked up his first win of the 1993 season as Pete Incaviglia, Todd Pratt and Jim Eisenreich all had extra base hits to help pave the way from the plate. Mitch Williams closed things out for his sixth save of the season in the ninth after Larry Andersen struggled for the first two outs.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Padres 2, Phillies 1

Dodgers 0
Phillies 2

WP: Curt Schilling (3-1)
LP: Ramon Martinez (2-2) 

Curt Schilling pitched a complete game shutout and struck out nine batters in the process as the Phillies opened up a home series against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 2-0 victory.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 4, Padres 3

Padres 2
Phillies 1

WP: Andy Benes (3-1)
LP: Terry Mulholland (2-2)
SV: Rich Rodriguez (2)

Before a Veterans Stadium crowd of 15,826, the Phillies continued a home series against the visiting San Diego Padres but the bats were unable to come alive for most of the game. The Padres took game one of the series by a score of 2-1, with Andy Benes shutting down the Phillies offense in to the ninth inning, allowing just five hits and one run before Rich Rodriguez was called on for the save.

Phillies starter Terry Mulholland had a solid outing, scattering seven hits and two runs over six innings pitched before being replaced on the mound by Mark Davis in the seventh inning. Mulholland and Benes took a scoreless game in to the fifth inning, when Padres catcher Bob Geren smacked a lead off home run to left field to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. San Diego left fielder Phil Plantier would double home first baseman Fred McGriff in the sixth inning to give the Padres a 2-0 lead.