Roy Halladay acted like Roy Halladay last night and did is thing. Just your normal 9 inning complete game only allowing 1 run while striking out 9. But Doc's performance was overshadowed by the newest member of the Fightin Phils in top prospect Domonic Brown's call up to replace injured CF Shane Victorino. Brown did not disappoint ripping the 3rd pitch he saw off the right field wall to knock in the Phillies first run and slide into second. He ended up finishing the game 2 for 3 knocking in 2 rbi's and scoring twice. The only mistake was late in the game playing right field he went to dive for a ball that he should have let drop and cut off for only a single to the batter. But hey...lets not get picky. This kid still has a few games to prove he is not a one night stand, but I think this call up is going to be permanent. Charlie Manuel summed it up best talking about Brown's performance, "He's an exciting player. He's got tools. He has quite a bit of ability." Spoken in true Manuel form.
Oh yeah the suddenly charging Phillies have now won 7 in a row and catching up on the Braves who now with 60 plus games have to start looking in there rear view mirror as they only have a 3.5 game lead in the NL East. Tonight the Phils go for the sweep with Kyle Kendrick on the mound facing Joe Saunders.
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