Young shortstop Freddy Galvis waits on-deck last night in Reading.
The last time I saw Mike Stutes pitch, months ago, he pitched the way he did last night. What can I say? In between he's been very good. Stutes was gone after five but it took the Reading Phillies till the 9th to tie the game at six. It then took the Erie SeaWolves, a dismal road team, four more innings to take a 9-6 lead. And that's how it ended. By then I was way gone. So were most of the other 7,000 or so on hand for the start of the game.
The R-Phils had a ton of chances but it was again one of those strange games from the get-go, with hits going off the pitcher's glove, bloops and bleeders, and lots of strange base running by the home team. Domonic Brown was 0 for 6; Freddy Galvis had an error.
This season the Reading Phillies have run one of the sweetest and funniest TV ad campaigns ever, all built around the slogan: "Bring the fam!" A week before school starts again, the fams were out in full force on a suddenly mild night at one of the best ballparks in the country.
