--RHP Jason Schmidt will continue his minor-league rehabilitation Sunday when he pitches for high-Class A Inland Empire against Lake Elsinore. 

--RHP Hiroki Kuroda threw a 30-pitch bullpen before the game Friday. 

Manny Ramirez finally faced his teammates on Friday for the first time since being suspended for 50 games for using a banned substance. 

ONCE YOU SPRAY all the mud and muck off of this Baseball team (and it would take a fire hose at this point, given the current ineptitude up and down the lineup), the truth is that the most important fact established yesterday by thePhillies is that Cole H 

After batting fifth in back-to-back games, Jimmy Rollins returned to his customary role as leadoff hitter yesterday in thePhillies' 5-3, 10-inning loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

The funny thing about budding enthusiasm at the ballpark is that it blooms slowly. 

Business has been great at Citizens Bank Park this season. 

ThePhillies game in front of another sellout crowd at Citizens Bank Park yesterday looked similar to quite a few last season when Cole Hamels was on the mound. 

IT TOOK THEPhillies seven games to break . 

The Dodgers finally are ready to take a chance on veteran left-hander Eric Milton, whose contract was purchased from Class AAA Albuquerque on Thursday. 

--LF Manny Ramirez, who has been suspended for 50 games for use of a banned substance, still hasn't indicated whether he will show up at Dolphin Stadium, where the Dodgers begin a three-game series Friday. 

--RHP Chad Billingsley, who was attempting to become the National League's first six-game winner, was left with no decision Thursday after the bullpen allowed a ninth-inning lead to get away. 

Jayson Werth's steal of home in the seventh inning Tuesday night was not only an astute play, but also a unique one. 

WHEN IT all went kerflooey for Brett Myers in the first half of last season, thePhillies crafted what turned out to be an inspired solution. 

THE 30-GAME hit streak of Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman came to an end yesterday afternoon in Washington's 6-3 win over the Giants, meaning he will not eclipse either Chase Utley's 35-game streak in 2006 - tied for 10th all time - or Jimmy Rollin