Brandon Phillips is a man…if the Pirates didn’t know that before, they definitely learned it in last night’s 5-3 loss to the Reds. Jared Hughes didn’t call Phillips “boy” and now that the two have squashed their beef, who cares…maybe Phillips shouldn’t have thrown the ball back to the mound after he got plunked.
Either way, it looked like Phillips was using that “racial slur” as some kind of motivation last night because he went off on the Bucs. Even though it was a wild pitch-Fort error combo that allowed Phillips to score the deciding run in the second, Phillips got the Reds off and running by driving in Cincy’s first 2 runs – a leadoff solo homer in the first and a RBI double in the second that gave the Reds the only lead they needed.
That’s really all there is to talk about with this one…even we can’t figure out why we’re still watching – probably because there’s nothing on Tuesday nights (and don’t say Sons of Anarchy). The Bucs put up 11 hits, only struck
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September 11, 2012
