The Daily Numbers: 3 p.m., when the Phils will play their first two games of their series against the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday and Thursday.

9:30 p.m., start of the Saturday game in Denver.

10 p.m., when they’ll start the Sunday game, if necessary. Let’s hope for a Phils’ sweep.

350 to $1,450, what you can expect to pay for tickets to Phillies playoff games on StubHub.com.

8.5 billion in cash and stock, what TD Bank Financial Group is going to pay for Cherry Hill-based Commerce Bank.

1 year has passed since a gunman entered an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County and opened fire. He killed five girls, injured five others and then turned the gun on himself.

14 groups that Gov. Ed Rendell says are interested in running the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

13, age of driver behind the wheel of speeding car that ran off a road and hit a tree in Dover, Pa., killing his passenger, a eighth-grade classmate.

1 win and 3 losses for the Eagles as they go into the Bye Week. They’ll happily surrender the stage to the Phillies. But they might have trouble getting it back. This is now a baseball town.

4 wins and zero losses for the Dallas Cowboys. Not good.



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Call Sunday the Ecstasy and Agony. The pure joy of seeing the Phils chase away the ghosts of 1964, followed by the pathetic offering of the Eagles on national TV. Somebody tell the Eagles the Bye Week is next Sunday.

I Don’t Get It (with apologies to Jack McCaffery): What exactly would cause Major League Baseball to start a playoff game at 10 p.m.? The same thing that caused them to move all the World Series games to prime time. Money.

Today’s Upper: How nice was it to see a rally downtown honoring the Phillies, not the Eagles. About time.

Quote Box: "Today was all about the Phillies."

-- Interboro senior Anthony Webb, who took in the rally for the Phillies downtown Monday.