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Phillies slammed by Red Sox.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| September 01, 2003 | Eichel, Larry | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Larry Eichel

PHILADELPHIA _ When your pitchers walk 14 batters, it's pretty hard to win a baseball game.

And yet somehow, with 11 of those bases on balls already in the books, the Phillies reached the top of the ninth inning on Monday with a two-run lead over the Boston Red Sox.

They had within their grasp what would have been one of the most dramatic wins of the season, one that might have wiped away some of the bad taste left from the internal bickering of the last week.

With the remains of a sellout crowd of 61,068 at Veterans Stadium, they had come from behind in the bottom of the eighth, taking the lead on a bases-loaded rocket of a single by Jim Thome _ the kind of moment the big guy was brought here to create.

But those last three walks, one of which ...

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