First, hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day Weekend.

Now to the Phillies, who had a very good weekend in Milwaukee, winning two of three against the Brewers. They finished their seven-game NL Central road trip going 4-3.

Friday was the closest game of the entire series with the Phils scoring a run in six of the first seven innings and Vince Velasquez getting four strikeouts in two innings of relief work in a 6-4 win. Bryce Harper drove in two runs, one on a sac fly and the other on a double, while Rhys Hoskins hit his 12th home run of the season.

Jake Arrieta threw eight phenomenal innings on Saturday, giving up only two runs on five hits with eight strikeouts as the Phillies did their damage early in a 7-2 win. They also added three insurance runs in the ninth with homers from Hoskins and JT Realmuto.

But the bats went away Sunday as Brandon Woodruff and Milwaukee gave up one hit and one run, an Andrew Knapp (!) home run in the sixth, as the Brewers scored four in the fifth to take a 9-1 win. Woodruff had 10 strikeouts, while Zach Eflin gave up three runs on six hits with four strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings.


The Phils return home today to host the Cardinals. First pitch is at 7:05 PM on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Adam Wainwright takes on Nick Pivetta, who’s been called back up from Triple A. Velasquez will stay in the bullpen. By the way, keep an eye out for a surging Cesar Hernandez. And don’t bet on the Phillies now.

The Roundup:

There was nothing really going on besides the Phillies. We’re reaching the dead period in sports.

Donovan McNabb thinks he’s a Hall of Famer. He ain’t.

Chris Long admitting to using marijuana should not be a big deal.

Flyers forward Corban Knight is headed to Russia:

The Timbers defeated the Union 3-1.

In other sports news, the Bruins came back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Blues in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Also, this hit:

Kevin Durant is missing Game 1 of the NBA Finals, while DeMarcus Cousins is questionable.

The Virginia Cavaliers defeated the Yale Bulldogs 13-9 to win their first men’s lacrosse national championship since 2011.

In the news, expect more buyouts and perhaps more layoffs at the Philadelphia Media Network, the group that owns the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com.

A Japanese man who was on a Bogota-to-Tokyo flight and swallowed 246 cocaine packets, not surprisingly, died: