Phillies Notes: Ibanez sits with sore wrist

WASHINGTON - When Raul Ibanez dove for a ball in the first inning Saturday, it looked gruesome. His left wrist bent so far backward that his glove flew off as the ball fell out for a single. But Ibanez shook it off and later hit a home run to tie the game in the seventh inning.

After the game, Ibanez had an X-ray. It was negative, but the soreness was enough for Charlie Manuel to scratch Ibanez from his lineup Sunday.

Ibanez is optimistic he can play Tuesday in Florida.

"I banged it up pretty good there," Ibanez said before Sunday's 11-inning win over Washington.

The leftfielder did not take batting practice. In Manuel's original lineup, he was supposed to hit second and play left. After arriving at the ballpark, Ibanez had his left wrist and thumb wrapped in ice. Manuel decided he couldn't go.

Manuel had planned to give rookie Domonic Brown the day off against another lefthanded starter, but Ibanez's injury inserted Brown into the lineup in right. He was 1 for 5 with an RBI single.

It's an inopportune time for Ibanez to sit out. He is riding a 10-game hitting streak and hit .337 with a .952 OPS in the month of July.

Ibanez, always a streaky hitter, appears to be heating up.

Manuel said he didn't even consider using Ibanez as a pinch-hitter in Sunday's 6-4 win. With Monday's off day, Ibanez has two days in a row to rest the wrist.

"It's all right," Ibanez said before Sunday's game. "I'll be all right by Tuesday."

For just the second time in his last 17 starts, Cole Hamels allowed more than three runs. Hamels has been the model of consistency since a shaky April.

On Sunday, he wasn't awful by any means. He tied a season high with 10 strikeouts. He had dominating stuff early in the game.

"That was great and all," Hamels said, "but I left two pitches up, one to [Ryan] Zimmerman and one to [Adam] Dunn. That kind of sums up the game. You can be on things, but you make that one mistake to those two guys and it's costly."

The one he wanted back the most was a 2-0 fastball to Dunn that the slugger hit for a two-run home run in the sixth inning.

"I was just trying to get a strike," Hamels said. "I threw it up. And that's his hot zone. I should have just kept battling and not go for the strike right off the bat."

The pitch to Zimmerman was also a fastball up in the zone. Zimmerman hit it to right for a two-run double in the fourth.

The four runs were the most he had allowed in a start since June 26. In his previous four starts, Hamels had allowed four earned runs in 272/3 innings.

He remained encouraged with his outing.

"I thought I was able to hit my spots pretty well," Hamels said.

Placido Polanco, who delivered the go-ahead hit in the 11th inning, has hit safely in 21 of his last 24 games. He ranks fourth in the National League with a .317 batting average this season. . . . Roy Halladay starts Tuesday's series opener against the Marlins, the first time he will pitch at Sun Life Stadium since his perfect game on May 29. Halladay is 5-5 since the perfect game with a 2.44 ERA. . . . Lefthander Sean West will start for Florida, the third straight game the Phillies will have faced a lefty. The Phillies will miss Marlins ace Josh Johnson in the three-game set. "That makes it a little bit easier," Manuel said. "At the same time, they always play us good, just like Washington does." . . . The Phillies flew to Florida after Sunday's game. They will spend the off day there.