After Monday's 6-5 loss to the New York Mets, it is finally do or die time for the Phils. With Houston facing St. Louis and the Cubs for thier final two series of the season, the Phils must win thier remaining 5 games in order to keep pace with the Astros. One could look at the glass half full and say that the Astros have tough competition with St. Louis and the Cubs who never seem to give in, but Oswalt, Pettitte, and Clemens will make thier final starts of the regular season this week. Add to that the fact that St. Louis has already clinched the NL Central and has the option to somewhat shut down some of thier starters for the remainder of the season and you may have a recipe for disaster. The Phils need some help from the Cards and Cubs to make this happen. After the final home series of the regular season, the Phils set off to Washington this weekend. The streaky Nationals could play spoiler to the Phils hopes. We've discussed the play of the Nationals in past podcasts and we all know that the Nationals can get hot at any time.The Phils starters need to be able to provide quality starts like Brett Myers did on Monday night or like Jon Lieber did last Thursday. The bullpen is a different story, obviously overused, Madson, Urbina, Cormier, Fultz, Wagner and co. need to get it done in the late innings. The offense has scored runs, we just need to shut down the opponents. We'll have a full recap of this weeks action on the Phillies Weekly podcast this Friday.Email: [email protected]

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