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Glavine takes aim at first win of year in Philly

Wed 14th, May 2008

(Sports Network) - Veteran lefty Tom Glavine makes attempt No. 7 at a first win of the season tonight when the Atlanta Braves visit Citizens Bank Park for the middle test of a three-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Glavine, who earned the 300th win of his career while with the New York Mets last season, is still winless in his return to Atlanta, the team that drafted him in the second round back in 1984.

His last outing, on May 9 at Pittsburgh, saw him pitch well enough to win - seven innings, five hits, two runs - but instead resulted in a no-decision in the Braves' 3-2 loss to the Pirates.

Atlanta is 1-5 in games that Glavine has started.

He is 28-17 lifetime against the Phillies in 64 starts, striking out 216 batters in 408 innings and amassing a 3.68 earned run average.

Philadelphia right-hander Brett Myers will try to snap a four-start winless skid.

The Jacksonville, Florid native was 2-1 on the season after a 10-2 victory over Houston on April 17, but is 0-2 with two no-decisions since, including a May 8 loss at Arizona in which he surrendered nine hits and six earned runs.

Myers was 5-7 with 21 saves last season, which began with him as a starter but wound up with him assuming closer duties and pitching just 68 2/3 innings after working 198 innings in 2006.

He is 4-6 with four saves in 24 games against the Braves, including 17 starts, with a 4.16 ERA in 114 2/3 innings.

On Tuesday, Jayson Werth finished 3-for-4 with four runs batted in, as the Phillies downed Atlanta, 5-4.

Werth won the game with his bat -- tying a career high with four RBI -- then nearly lost it in the field.

With Mark Kotsay on second and Chipper Jones on first in the ninth, Brad Lidge faced Brian McCann with two outs. McCann lofted a line drive to center, but Werth froze and the ball flew over his head, scoring Kotsay with the first earned run surrendered by Lidge this season.

Lidge followed that with a four-pitch walk to injury-replacement Greg Norton, but Jeff Francoeur flied out to Shane Victorino in right to end the game. Kyle Kendrick (3-2) managed his way through six frames despite 11 baserunners and only two strikeouts.

Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell each finished 2-for-4 and Victorino also collected two hits for the Phillies, who have split their last eight games.

Jones added three more hits to his all-world start, raising his league-leading batting average to .415.

Francoeur drove in a pair of runs for the Braves, who have dropped four of five and fell to a mind-boggling 1-11 in one-run games despite holding the best batting average and team earned run average in the NL entering Tuesday's contest. Atlanta has lost its last 16 one-run contests on the road.

Jo-Jo Reyes (1-1) took the loss after surrendering five runs on 11 hits with five strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.

Philadelphia split its nine matchups with the Braves last season, but the Braves won five of the nine matchups at Citizens Bank Park.

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