like old times

Good news for the Philadelphia Phillies, bad news for the rest of baseball. Roy Oswalt pitched his best game of the season for the Phils on Saturday, throwing eight shutout innings and fanning nine in a 5-0 win over Washington. The former Weir High and Holmes Community College star, who has made two trips to the disabled list with back problems, was still hitting 93 mph in his final inning. “The velocity is coming back for me pretty nice,” Oswalt (6-7, 3.51 ERA) told mlb.com. “It’s coming back for me. I should feel better and better as I go.” If that’s true, the Phillies, who have maintained the best record in baseball for some time now, are going to be that much tougher to beat in the postseason.

P.S. On the always active injury front, San Francisco put Delta State alum Eli Whiteside (concussion) on the DL in the wake of the awkward, face-first slide he took against Atlanta last week, and Florida finally activated Ole Miss alum Chris Coghlan from his rehab stint and then sent him to Triple-A New Orleans. As bad as the Marlins are, does that make any sense?