Wednesday, June 1, 2011

'hit in the crystals'

Jason Marquis was good, Cliff Lee was not, the bullpen was largely suspect, and the Phillies lost to the Nationals down in D.C. 10-2. The only offense for the Phillies came in the fifth via back-to-back homers by Domonic Brown and John Mayberry, Jr. For Brown, now hitting .333, it was his first of the year. In the bottom of the eighth, Carlos Ruiz got, as Charlie Manuel put it, 'hit in the crystals'.

Young second baseman Danny Espinosa, who homered off Roy Halladay in Monday's game, homered twice off of Lee. Those knocks were pretty much the story of the game.