Daily Recap: 5-Out Save

The Phillies won!!!!!!
The Nationals were rained out.

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Charlie Manuel wins the Good Move of the Day award for putting Jonathan Papelbon into the game in the eighth inning tonight. Jake Deikman was not pitching well and who do you bring in, Raul Valdes??? Seriously, you have to get the next out, because after that is Hanley Ramirez and the definiton of hot himself, Giancarlo Stanton (Although he was only 1-for-3 tonight, good job!) So Manuel brings in Papelbon. I was slightly surprised, but glad our best reliever was on the mound. I wondered whether he would come out again for the ninth. He did, and picked-up his first 5-out save since 2009.
Chooch is back. Yup, in the starting line-up for the first time simce Sunday! And BOOM! 3-for-4! Now he's hitting .381 and that's first in the majors! GO CHOOCH!!!!!!!!

Outside of Philly:
Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in New York Mets history. Congrats to Johan and the Mets! Happy to get the Phils out of town, were you?

Ciao!
~TBC