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The Phillies' 2011 postseason didn't start too smoothly.

Roy Halladay gave up a single and steal to Rafael Furcal, pitched around Albert Pujols for a walk, and then put a fastball on a tee for Lance Berkman, who smacked it off the facing of the second deck for a 3-run homer and Cardinals' lead in the first.

Thankfully, there's more than one inning per baseball game. The Phils' bats woke up a bit in the fifth, when Shane Victorino drove in a two-out run. And they really woke up in the sixth, with Ryan Howard and then Raul Ibanez sending Kyle Lohse change-ups way out to right for three- and two-run homers, respectively.

Now with a lead, and Lohse out of the game, the Phillies stepped on the Cardinals' throats, posting 5 more runs in the seventh and eighth innings.

Halladay rebounded from a bad first to pretty much dominate the Cardinals' lineup the rest of the way, exiting the game after eight innings.

The ninth inning took a while as Michael Stutes let a bunch of Cardinals on base before Ryan Madson annoyingly had to be called in to close it out, but the Phillies opened up their playoff run impressively with a blowout.

Cliff Lee vs. Chris Carpenter in a great pitching matchup for Game 2 tomorrow night.