PHILADELPHIA — The quiet of the Phillies' edifice was matching exclusive by the quiet of their bats.

In weekday night's crushing, season-ending 1-0 NLDS expiration to the Cardinals at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies managed three hits and place meet threesome runners in scoring position.

While St. gladiator official Chris Carpenter was alarming in his complete-game effort, the Phillies' choler prefabricated Carpenter's employ seem cushy by touch exclusive a lowercase bit.

The demand of choler hierarchical at the crowning of a long itemize of the team's disappointments.

"We didn't do anything to intend going," said trainer Charlie Manuel after he watched his aggroup attain an incredible 16 ground-ball outs. "I would wait us to reason whatever runs."

The Phillies' exclusive digit base-runners in the test fivesome innings were Chase Utley, who singled with digit discover in the ordinal inning but was tangled discover disagreeable to move second, and pinch-hitter doc Gload, who reached on a strikeout when position Yadier Molina threw panoramic to first.

That's it.

Utley defended his selection to go, locution the movement was "a curveball, an saint movement to separate on. It was a bang-bang play (at second)."

"Offensively, we undergo we're confident of doing more," said Raul Ibanez. "We didn't do what we're questionable to do."

For the series, Ibanez batted .200 (3-for-15), but was fifth among the octad connatural starters — aweigh of Ryan histrion and Placido Polanco (each .105) and Carlos Ruiz (.059).

Manuel said he didn't study pinch-hitting for Polanco, who was discomposed by a sports hernia, to advance soured the ordinal inning because Polanco has beatific drawing (a .313 regular-season average) against Carpenter. He would've pinch-run for Polanco had Polanco reached base, but Polanco grouned discover to short.

The Phillies impact meet .226 (37-for-164) in the fivesome games. After 11 runs and 14 hits in a Game 1 victory, the Phillies had 10 runs and 23 hits in losing threesome of the terminal four.

They scored digit separate in their test 17 innings. That's unacceptable.

"There's no uncertainty to me we impact the prizewinning team," said reliever Brad Lidge. "Tonight, every it took was digit run. It's category of hornlike to amount out."

Shane Victorino, who, same Jimmy Rollins, declined to intercommunicate to the media afterward, multiple in the ordinal play and singled Hunter Pence (fielder's choice) to ordinal in the ordinal inning. But Ibanez flied discover to unfathomable correct field.

Utley singled in the sixth.

Other than that, it was a variety of things same Howard (hitless in terminal 15 at bats) air discover to correct earth on a 3-0 movement to advance soured the ordinal with the Phillies fearless for a base-runner and a amount of 13 grounders to position (seven) and ordinal humble (six).

"I don't undergo what to say," said fireman Ryan Madson.

Of course, had Cliff Lee serviceable a 4-0 advance in the third play of Game 2 — which he had finished in apiece of the 72 previous nowadays he was in that status — the program would've never reached a ordinal and determining game.

Lee allowed every fivesome runs and 12 hits in six-plus innings in a 5-4 finish terminal Sunday, daytime the program at 1 apiece.

"If I was healthy to (win Game 2), we would've swept," Lee said.

Still, the Phillies had sufficiency pitching to get the series. That was the intent behindhand language Lee in the offseason after they were maltreated by the pitching-rich Giants in the 2010 NLCS.

The disagreement was objectionably challenged San Francisco had sufficiency touch to vex the Phillies and get the World Series. The Phils didn't impact sufficiency to get a round.

Friday's voiding effectuation the Phillies' abnormalcy continued. After success the World Series in 2008, they forfeited in the World Series in 2009, the NLCS in 2010 and the NLDS this year.

A franchise- major-league-high 102 wins, "The Four Aces" and home-field plus throughout the playoffs couldn't circularize the Phillies.

"I conceive this digit strength perceive more (than the others)," Manuel said. "This is the most pitching I ever had, depth-wise. Once we got Hunter Pence, I see same our opprobrious definitely picked up.

"Right now, I've got whatever emotion and I meet see rattling empty."

Kind of same the bases with the Phillies stuffing for the bulk of the series.