Early fans to Monday night's game in Reading got this free photo of Ryan Howard, a member of the Reading Phillies All-Decade team. Change the uni and it looks like Howard 2010. The Phillies were again shut out by a knuckle baller, this time journeyman R.A. Dickey. I had to draw a veil quickly over this game. And there it shall stay until the team comes out of this current hitting funk and starts to play crisp baseball again. Ugh.
The IronPigs last night finally won a one-run game. They've been on the losing end of those more times than would seem possible. Of most interest: Scott Mathieson, who needed just eight pitches,a mix of sliders and fastballs, to close out the game. For the year he's got a 0.76 ERA and eight saves. So how about it, Philadelphia?
