The Phillies are celebrating Mother's Day with pink bats. They're warming up with them in batting practice as I type.

Hopefully for their sake, those bats have more in them than what they used yesterday, when they managed just two hits in the first seven innings of a lopsided 8-2 defeat.

But that was just one day, so no reason to be too critical. With a win this afternoon, the Phils will complete a 4-3 road trip; any winning road trip is a success, especially one that takes you through Phoenix and the pitching-rich Snakes.

Not a whole lot else to report from the ball yard today. This is one of the nice parks in baseball. If the newer parks (post 1990), this is second best in my book to Pittsburgh's PNC.

But San Fran is a nicer city than Pitt, so if you weight that in this is one of the betters places to travel should you want to go on the road trip to watch the Phils one day.

If I was a baseball fan who could travel wherever whenever, here's the list of the top 5 places I'd want to go:

1. Chicago, Wrigley Field
2. San Francisco, AT&T Park
3. Cooperstown, NY - National Baseball Hall of Fame (yup, not a park - but if you're a baseball fan and you've never been, go. Now.)
4. San Diego, Petco Park (it's like 78 and sunny every day in that city).
5. Boston, Fenway Park

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The Archive Files

Forgot to update yesterday, so here's a list of Delco Times weekend links:

The Sunday notes column features Cole Hamels reflecting on the emergence of former Phillies top prospect Gavin Floyd.

In the Saturday game story, young gun Tim Lincecum was a San Francisco treat while Jamie Moyer struggled.

As you read below, Scott Mathieson is headed for another surgery.

On Friday, Jimmy Rollins returned.