I like to take a look at the in-depth numbers behind the scenes for my web sites, including Macho Row. From time to time I think I woudl like to share some of the most interesting search results leading readers to this little piece of the Phillies blogosphere with you. Maybe you will find some of them as amusing as I do.

Here is a look at the most recent top searches bringing people to Macho Row. Are you one of them?

1. Mitch Williams Twitter - Yes, the lovable closer from the 1993 Phillies is in dee don Twitter, and he tweets a lot.

2. Ryan Howard strikeouts 2013 - After a rough road swing through the NL West, your Phillies firstbaseman has struck out 43 times this season, fourth most in the National League. However, over the last seven days, no player in baseball has struck out more than Howard (13 times).

3. Who's on first 2013 - Naturally.

4. 1993 Phillies

5. 1993 Phillies highlight - Like this one?

6. april 2013 comments on ryan howard - The fans are not exactly happy with Howard, it seems.

7. Bobby Abreu last year's average - 

8. Bryce Harper pegged - Somebody was looking for the time Cole Hamels felt a need to teach Bryce Harper a lesson, it seems.

9. Fire Sam Perlozzo - Perlozzo was removed from the coaching staff at the end of the 2012 season, so I'm not sure what someone is thinking out there right now.

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Kyle Kendrick signed a two-year contract in February 2012. If he continues to pitch the way he has recently, he could be lining up another two-year deal in the upcoming offseason.

I was supportive of Kendrick's two-year deal when it was signed and despite some ups and downs in 2012 I remained steady in my belief that he had earned his role on the team. Last nigth in San Francisco Kendrick once again came up big on the mound by exhibiting a level of confidence that has been growing by the start this season. Kendrick tossed seven complete innings, allowing just two runs to the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants and picking up his team-leading fourth win.

Sometimes random questions pop in to my head when I am browsing the Internet. Recently, while browsing Facebook and coming across a Phillies-related image, which I shared on the Macho Row Facebook page, I was curious how the Phillies measured up on Facebook compared to the rest of Major League Baseball.

After looking up some Facebook pages I learned the Phillies are one of ten franchises with at least 1 million Facebook likes. Compared to the rest of the league, the Phillies rank ninth in Like totals, edging out the Detroit Tigers and just a sliver behind the NL East rival Atlanta Braves.

As you might expect, no team has more likes than the New York Yankees, who blow away the competition with over 6 million likes, nearly doubling the Boston Red Sox (the only other team with more than 1.8 million likes).

The Phillies are among the leaders when it comes to Twitter though. The Phillies are second only to the Yankees among MLB franchises when it comes to Twitter followers. The Phillies and Yankees are the only franchises with over 460,000 followers (Yankees at 889,192 and Phillies with 758,249 followers).

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Giants 11, Phillies 2

Cardinals 3
Phillies 4

WP: Tommy Greene (3-0)
LP: Joe Magrane (2-3)
SV: Mitch Williams (12)

After ending a west coast road trip by being pounded by the San Francisco Giants, the NL East leading Philadelphia Phillies took a day off before returning home to Veterans Stadium for a division series with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals got to Phillies starter Tommy Greene early but the Phillies would battle back to pick up their 20th win of the season, becoming the first team in Major League Baseball to reach the 20-win mark in the 1993 season.

That's more like it. It seems like it has been a while since the Phillies got that so-called complete game effort from the team, but last night in San Francisco they gave it. Cliff Lee was in command on the mound, Domonic Brown delivered the first McCovey Cove blast in Phillies history and the defense did not disappoint in the field for the most part. The result was a 6-2 victory over the defending World Series champions to open up a west coast swing.

The trick of course is to not be sucked in to the idea that the Phillie that played Monday night have all of a sudden turned things around. Coming off a four-game split with the lowly Miami Marlins at home and still sitting below .500 means it will take more than one fun night by the bay to convince me the Phillies have flipped a switch, metaphorically speaking. Those who know me will tell you I'm generally a positive-thinking person and I tend to focus on the positives wherever possible while keeping in balance with the negatives.

I'm not going to focus on any negatives from last night, because overall I am not sure where they existed outside of Jimmy Rollins going 0-for-4 in the leadoff spot (he did tack on a sacrifice fly in the ninth). So instead, let's just watch Domonic Brown's monster home run to right field in the fifth inning again...

Sometimes I wonder if my enthusiasm for interleague play has been influenced by what seems to be a shortcoming for the Phillies. It seems the Phillies are awful in interleague play every time it comes around, and thanks to the new format in baseball we get to have this torture dragging throughout the season rather than get it in one, two or three lump sums.

It's not quite a reach. The Phillies have an all-time winning record against just three teams in the American League; Texas Rangers (6-3), Chicago White Sox (5-4) and Cleveland Indians (6-5 after dropping two games the past two nights). It looked pretty clear that the last two nights the Phillies did not belong on the same field as the Indians, who improved to 12-13 as a result after bashing the Phillies to the combined score of 20-2 with Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee taking the mound. Say what you will about pitchers getting unlucky in some spots (some of that is fair to suggest), but the pitching came up small from start to finish in Cleveland. Perhaps more frustrating was another two nights of poor base running and lack of offense when needed the most.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 7, Dodgers 6

Phillies 1
Dodgers 5

WP: Tom Candiotti (1-3)
LP: Ben Rivera (1-2)

The Phillies offense was without much life in Los Angeles for game two of a three game road series, and the Dodgers used a three-run outburst to bury the Phillies in the eighth inning for a 5-1 victory.

Things were looking bleak as the Phillies limped into their weekend series with arch-rival New York Mets.  The Phillies were sitting at 9-14 and 7.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves on Friday.  They desperately needed to right the ship and get back on the winning track.  The Phillies responded by doing just that, improving to 12-14 with 4.5 games separating them from the Braves who dropped a weekend series to the Detroit Tigers.  After going 3 and 5 over the eight game home stand by splitting the series with the Cardinals and losing 3 out of 4 against NL Central leading Pittsburgh Pirates the Phillies got back on the winning track.

Kyle Kendrick was first up on Friday night; he proceeded to throw a complete game shutout scattering 3 hits (Watch video here).  Dillon Gee went toe-to-toe with Kendrick for 5 innings by not allowing the Phillies to score either.  They would get to Gee in the sixth with a Michael Young single (Watch video here) and a big 3-run homer from Ryan Howard (Watch video here).  That was all Kendrick would need as he picked up his second win on the young season.  Kyle has been the Phillies most consistent starting pitcher thus far pitching to a 2.41 ERA over 33 and 2/3 innings.  The Phillies continued to step on the gas Saturday afternoon at Citi Field.

Game 1 Box Score

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 5, Padres 3

Phillies 5
Padres 3

WP: Danny Jackson (2-0)
LP: Frank Seminara (1-2)
S: Mitch Williams (9)

Lenny Dykstra's lead-off home run to start the game jumped the Phillies off to a  good start and a four-run third inning was enough to hold off a late-inning rally by the Padres as Danny Jackson picked up his second win with the Phillies in game two of a west coast road trip. The Phillies won their second straight game against San Diego by the score of 5-3 to start the road trip off on a good note.