How They Scored

PHILADELPHIA 1ST:   P Polanco safe at first on error by third baseman 
V Castilla.  J Rollins tripled to right, P Polanco scored.  J Thome struck out 
swinging.  B Abreu hit sacrifice fly to left, J Rollins scored.  P Burrell 
flied out to right center. (2 Runs, 1 Hit, 1 Error)  PHILADELPHIA 2, ATLANTA 0.

ATLANTA 2ND:   A Jones singled to left.  R Fick doubled to right, A Jones 
scored.  V Castilla popped out to second.  H Blanco lined out to center.  
G Maddux grounded out to shortstop. (1 Run, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)  
PHILADELPHIA 2, ATLANTA 1.

PHILADELPHIA 3RD:   J Rollins struck out swinging.  J Thome doubled to right 
center.  B Abreu singled to center, J Thome to third.  B Abreu stole second. 
P Burrell singled to right, J Thome scored, B Abreu to third.  M Lieberthal 
grounded out to second, B Abreu scored, P Burrell to second.  D Bell grounded 
out to third. (2 Runs, 3 Hits, 0 Errors)  PHILADELPHIA 4, ATLANTA 1.

PHILADELPHIA 5TH:   J Rollins grounded out to shortstop.  J Thome grounded 
out to shortstop.  B Abreu doubled to deep left center.  P Burrell 
intentionally walked.  M Lieberthal doubled to deep right center, B Abreu and 
P Burrell scored.  D Bell grounded out to shortstop. (2 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)  
PHILADELPHIA 6, ATLANTA 1.

PHILADELPHIA 6TH:   T Hodges relieved G Maddux. R Ledee homered to right.  
V Padilla singled to shallow right.  P Polanco grounded out to first, V Padilla 
to second.  J Rollins flied out to right.  J Thome struck out swinging. 
(1 Run, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)  PHILADELPHIA 7, ATLANTA 1.

PHILADELPHIA 7TH:   B Abreu doubled to deep left center.  P Burrell popped 
out to second.  M Lieberthal struck out swinging.  D Bell singled to center, 
B Abreu scored.  R Ledee struck out swinging. (1 Run, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)  
PHILADELPHIA 8, ATLANTA 1.

Game Story

ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Vicente Padilla has been unable to 
recapture his form from last season, but the Atlanta Braves have
not noticed a difference.

Padilla pitched seven strong innings for his third win against
Atlanta in as many starts this season and Mike Lieberthal drove
in three runs as the Philadelphia Phillies routed Greg Maddux
and the Braves, 8-1.

Struggling this year after posting a 14-11 record in 2002,
Padilla (6-7) allowed one run and four hits and lowered his
season ERA against the Braves to 1.48.  The righthander, who
improved to 5-2 lifetime vs. the perennial postseason contender,
walked one and struck out two.

"Maybe it's not confidence," Padilla said through an
interpreter. "I feel like I'm throwing the ball well in the
times I've been pitching against them.  I'm just throwing good
now.  I can't explain it."

"Padilla has been pitching good for us, not just against the
Braves," Phillies manager Larry Bowa said. "Any time you shut
down a team with that offense, you've done well.  He uses both
sides of the plate.  Some pitchers don't do that against a team
like Atlanta."

Lieberthal, who owns a career .370 average (50-for-135) at
Turner Field, plated a run with a groundout in the third inning
to give the Phillies a 4-1 lead before adding a two-run double
in the fifth.

Maddux (6-7) turned in his shortest outing since May 30,
yielding six runs - four earned - and seven hits in five
innings.  The four-time NL Cy Young Award winner, who fell to
0-2 in three starts against Philadelphia this season, walked two
and struck out four.

"I thought they hit some pretty decent pitches," Maddux said. "I
just didn't pitch good.  I felt like I threw halfway decent,
but I got hit.  I put us in a hole in the first inning and it's
hard to come back from that."

Bobby Abreu collected three hits and scored three runs for the
Phillies, who evened the three-game series after taking two of
three from the Braves in Philadelphia last week.

The Phillies, who have won four of their last five games, scored
twice in the first inning to grab an early lead.

Placido Polanco opened the game with a smash that Atlanta third
baseman Vinny Castilla could not corral and scored on Jimmy
Rollins' triple to right field.  After Maddux struck out Jim
Thome, Abreu lifted a sacrifice fly to left that plated Rollins
for a 2-0 advantage.

"That was a tough play," Castilla said of Polanco's grounder.
"He hit the tar out of the ball.  It hit my glove."

"It's very important to get ahead early, especially against a
team like Atlanta, in the upper echelon," Bowa said. "You can't
let a team like that hang around."

The Braves halved the deficit on Robert Fick's RBI double in the
second, but Philadelphia added two runs in the third to take a
4-1 lead.

Thome ripped a one-out double to right-center and moved to third
on a single by Abreu, who then stole second.  Mired in a
season-long slump, Pat Burrell stroked a single to right to
score Thome, and Lieberthal followed with a groundout that
plated Abreu.

Entering the game trailing only Los Angeles' Paul Lo Duca for
the highest batting average among major league catchers,
Lieberthal ripped a two-out, two-run double to deep right-center
on a 3-1 offering in the fifth to give the Phillies a 6-1
cushion.

The two-base hit followed a questionable ball call by plate
umpire Chris Guccione that Maddux felt was a strike.

"I was cursing," Maddux said. "I didn't get the pitch.  I wasn't
yelling at him.  What I think doesn't matter, and I know that.
... I've stopped complaining about the strike zone.  I just
realize it's not my job to call the game.  It's my job to make
some good pitches."

"Usually, it's probably called," Lieberthal admitted. "It comes
back (over the plate) when the catcher catches it, it's on the
corner.   Now maybe the umpires aren't giving him off the
plate."

Ricky Ledee crushed Trey Hodges' first pitch of the sixth inning
into the right field stands for his sixth homer of the season
and David Bell added an RBI single in the seventh to cap the
scoring.