The Philadelphia Phillies have signed All-Star center fielder Shane Victorino to a three-year contract extension worth $22 million.

The deal, announced by the team on Friday, keeps Victorino under contract with the Phillies through 2012.

Victorino earned his second straight Golden Glove award in 2009 while hitting .292 with 62 RBIs, 10 home runs, 13 triples, 39 doubles, and 25 stolen bases.

The Victorino deal follows Thursday’s announcement that the Phillies had signed 29-year-old right-hander Joe Blanton to a three-year, $24 million extension.

Victorino made $3.125 million in 2009. He asked for $5.8 million in arbitration, and the Phillies had offered $4.75 million.

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Outfielder Quintin Berry, lefthander Yohan Flande and righthander Jesus Sanchez had their contracts selected to the Philadelphia Phillies’ 40-man roster, the club announced today.

Berry, who turns 25 on Saturday, spent this past season with Double-A Reading. He hit .266 with five home runs, 28 RBIs and 48 stolen bases in 135 games and played exclusively in center field. A fifth-round selection in the 2006 draft, Berry has 173 stolen bases in four minor league seasons.

Flande, 23, split the season between Single-A Clearwater and Reading. In a combined 25 starts, he went 10-5 with a 3.40 ERA and allowed six home runs in 145.2 innings. Flande, a native of the Dominican Republic, was originally signed by the Phillies as an amateur free agent in 2004.


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For 371 days, over thousands of miles — from spring training in Clearwater, Fla., to 18 cities across the majors, even on an afternoon in May at the White House — they were hailed as champions of baseball. It was an impressive reign, filled with star-making performances and countless memories.

And it ended so abruptly.

It came to a close Wednesday night in the South Bronx. The Phillies passed the crown to the New York Yankees, 7-3, in Game 6 of the World Series, and when it was over, many of them lingered in the dugout and gazed at their vanquishers, who were celebrating with “We Are The Champions” blaring in the background.

“I watched it,” said tortured closer Brad Lidge, the reality only starting to set in inside a quiet clubhouse. “It makes you remember how last year we were able to do the same thing ourselves. We came really close this year, and I think every one of us feels like we have the capability to do it again next year.”


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By the ninth inning, Phillies fans were preparing for the worst.


The New York Yankees were at it again, chipping away at a dwindling lead and threatening to take away the Phils’ World Series title right there at Citizens Bank Park.

Desperate to hang on, somehow Chase Utley and the Phillies did. Derek Jeter grounded into a double play, Mark Teixeira struck out, and Philadelphia staved off the Yankees and elimination with an 8-6 win in Game 5 on Monday night.

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Pedro Martinez was going to be forgotten quickly.

Remember when the Phillies signed him back in July, an aging pitcher who had a deplorable season, who went unwanted through the first half of the season?
Maybe he would give them a few good starts, flash some glimpses of his former self, and win a few games so that the Phillies could get through the rest of the regular season.
Then, he would surely be forgotten in the playoffs.
Yet look at Martinez now.
He has become, along with Cliff Lee, the Phillies’ most important starting pitcher.


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Ryan Howard and the defending champs are back in the World Series — proving last year was no fluke and looking even more dangerous this time around.

Jayson Werth homered twice, Shane Victorino and Pedro Feliz also connected and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to win their second straight NL pennant.

Brad Lidge closed it out, Howard was selected NL championship series MVP and the Phillies became the first team to reach consecutive World Series since the New York Yankees in 2000-01.

“I can get used to it,” manager Charlie Manuel told a cheering crowd. “We got one more step and we’re going to get it!”

Now, Jimmy Rollins and crew wait for their next opponent. They’ll go for their third World Series title beginning next Wednesday night at New York or Los Angeles. The Yankees lead the Angels 3-1 in the ALCS, which resumes Thursday night at Angel Stadium.

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The toughest thing about the cross-country aspects of games like Sunday night’s 11-0 trouncing of the Los Angeles Dodgers by the Philadelphia Phillies isn’t just the long-distance travel, it’s the travel from the palm trees and balmy breezes of the West Coast to the deep freeze of the East.


Both California teams have had problems with the cold. On Sunday night it was the Dodgers looking flat and uncomfortable in Game 3 of the NLCS. They now trail 2-1 in the series, with Game 4 at Citizens Bank Park Monday night.

The Philly bats were alive, but it was starter Cliff Lee who contributed most to the Dodger woes with a masterful eight innings in which he allowed just three hits, with no walks and 10 strikeouts.

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Twenty-four hours after learning that he had been left off the Phillies’ roster for the National League Championship Series, Brett Myers still was having trouble digesting the decision yesterday.

“I’m upset,” the pitcher said before Game 1 against the Los Angeles Dodgers last night.

Myers, 29, had hip surgery June 4. At the time, team officials thought his season was over. The righthander stayed dedicated to a rehabilitation program and made it back in early September. The club hoped Myers could help in the bullpen, but he had a 6.43 ERA in eight games. He pitched just two-thirds of an inning in the division series.

“It’s tough going through all that [rehab],” Myers said. “This is the whole reason I tried to get back, to be in the postseason. Now they took that away.


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