Cardinals 10, Phillies 2

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ It was the kind of game Phillies fans had seen thousands of times before. <br/><br/>Now, make it 10,000 times. <br/><br/>Bad starting pitching, brutal relief and hardly any hitting.

Sunday, July 15th 2007, 8:24 pm

By: News On 6

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ It was the kind of game Phillies fans had seen thousands of times before.

Now, make it 10,000 times.

Bad starting pitching, brutal relief and hardly any hitting. Oh, and lots of booing.

Loss Number 10,000 came Sunday night when Albert Pujols hit two of the Saint Louis Cardinals' six homers in a 10-2 rout of Philadelphia.

By the ninth inning, fans in the sellout crowd of 44,872 were thumbing their noses at the dubious mark, standing and cheering. One fan held up a sign that read: ``10,000 N Proud.''

From Connie Mack Stadium to the Vet and Citizens Bank Park, and at ballparks all over, the Phillies have cemented their place as the losingest team in professional sports. The franchise, born in 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers and later called the Blue Jays in the mid-1940s, fell to 8,810-and-10,000.