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Halladay Fights Injury to Keep Phillies' Season Alive

SAN FRANCISCO (Oct.22) -- Football players will chuckle when they hear the latest big baseball story. This one is about how gimpy pitcher Roy Halladay gutted through a groin strain Thursday night to keep the Phillies alive in the National League Championship Series. The media loves these kind of purple-hued stories, and...

Phillies' Roy Halladay Throws No-Hitter Against Reds

PHILADELPHIA -- October baseball, meet Roy Halladay. Roy Halladay, welcome to October immortality. The Phillies ace, appearing in the playoffs for the first time, joined Don Larsen on Wednesday as the only pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the postseason when he led the defending National League champions to a 4-0 victory,...

Pickup Artist: Phillies' Domonic Brown Has Arrived

Need help navigating the waiver wire each week? Let the Pickup Artist be your guide. Outfielders Domonic Brown, PHI - 20% owned Freakish athlete but still a bit raw. That was the book on Domonic Brown heading into the 2010 season. At least according to the scouts in Arizona this past fall. Needless to say, after...

Video: Is This Kid Drinking a Beer at Phillies Game?

(June 8) -- One young Phillies fan was having a very, very good time at the game. A video of an unidentified little boy appearing to throw back a beer at a Phillies-Padres game in Philadelphia this weekend has created a small sensation. TV cameras at Citizens Bank Park caught the tow-headed toddler taking swigs from what...

Phillies Pitcher Throws Perfect Game

(May 29) -- All of a sudden, perfection seems a bit easier to achieve. Continuing a season of dominance by pitchers around the majors, Roy Halladay delivered the second perfect game this season -- but only the 20th in major league history -- in beating the Marlins 1-0 Saturday night in Miami.

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The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League.

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