Philadelphia's reign as NL East champions is almost certain to come to an end after this season after five straight titles. The Phillies had another streak stop Monday night, as the club failed to sell out a regular-season home game for the first time after 257 in a row.Ben Sheets pitched into the eighth inning and Jason Heyward homered to lead the streaking Atlanta Braves to a 6-1 victory over the Phillies in front of 41,665 at Citizens Bank Park.The Phillies' crowd halted the club's consecutive sellout streak, which is the longest ever in the NL and third-longest in MLB history according to the club. The streak started on July 7, 2009."You kind of know it's going to happen," Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins said. "You would hope that it wouldn't. You would hope that one bad season wouldn't break it up. But that's the way it goes. Source: ESPN
On a brighter note, they snapped their losing streak to the Braves. Hopefully that's only a one game trend ;) But crazy. 257 games and its gone.
didnt miss by much either. its a good thing for us real fans that go down to the park though. this will weed out the 08er's who act like the phillies were established in 2007.
yeah but i have to admit on the other hand those 08ers helped put enough money in the phillies pockets to try and keep a top team on the field.
I would rather see a ballpark be half full with true die hard fans then a sold out ballpark with a crap load of bandwagon fans that won't show up once the team starts to suck again. Not saying the team shouldn't push for the ballpark to be sold out but bandwagon fans really amuse me.
when you dont have your 3-4 hitters and your bullpen blows nearly 20games the team was winning or tied in its hard to stay in the race.
IF the Phillies are healthy from the get go next season, I will not be suprised to see them in the NL East race and wild card race.
