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Having looked masterful at times, Charlie Morton sauntered off the mound and headed to the dugout in the seventh inning staked to a one-run lead. He left hoping the bullpen would be able to string together seven more outs to secure the Phillies first home win of the season.

 Entering Tuesday, the Phillies' bullpen had tossed 10 scoreless innings dating back to Saturday's contest in New York. The relief corps pushed that scoreless streak to 12 1/3 inning on Tuesday night, sealing a 3-0 win for the Phillies over the Padres at Citizens Bank Park.

 Prior to their new found success, the Phillies bullpen surrendered 15 runs in its first eight innings.

This creates a rather large hole in the suddenly ever-changing broadcast team (remember the years of Harry Kalas, Richie Ashburn, Chris Wheeler, Andy Musser, and very little change for forever?). Since Andersen will still be around, the radio booth will likely take on a similar form as the TV booth, with rotating analysts. Maybe L.A. shares the duties with one other commentator. Perhaps it's a trio working at various times with Franzke (which seems like too much, but there are three TV analysts currently in Ben Davis, John Kruk, and Mike Schmidt).

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 "Everyone is doing a really good job," Gomez said. "We're trying to stay together. We're trying to speak more during the game and focus on that game. That's really important because all seven of us are focused on the game. And that gave us a good result."

 Already ahead by a run, the Phillies scored a pair in the ninth as Cedric Hunter scored on a fielder's choice and Emmanuel Burriss came home on a throwing error by Padres second baseman Cory Spangenberg.

 Odubel Herrera drove a two-out triple to right field in the sixth inning, scoring Tyler Goeddel from second to give the Phillies a 1-0 advantage. Goeddel reached earlier in the frame by collecting his first major-league hit, a single to left.

 Morton threw 100 pitches, 59 of which were strikes. He did a fine job of locating his fastball and his sinker kept Padres' hitters off-balance for much of the night.

 "I feel like we're going to be in every game with our starting pitching," Mackanin said. "And the way the bullpen seems to be shaping up, we're pretty pleased with the way it looks."

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