Found October 16, 2009 on SportingNews.com:
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LOS ANGELES—Someone forgot to tell the Phillies they're supposed to struggle against lefthanders. They scored all eight of their runs in Game 1 Thursday night off the Dodgers' best lefty starter, Clayton Kershaw, and their most reliable lefty reliever, George Sherrill. "You can say what you want to say but we just go out there and hit," lefty slugger Ryan Howard said. "We get guys to come through in big situations. They just happened to be off lefties. We don't worry about all that stuff." Ryan Howard chipped in with an RBI double as the Phillies beat up L.A,'s lefties Well, the Dodgers certainly seem worried. To combat the Phillies' lefty power of Howard, Chase Utley and Raul Ibanez, the Dodgers started Kershaw in Game 1 in part because he's not righthanded. They will start another lefty, Randy Wolf, in Game 4, over Chad Billingsley and Jon Garland. They loaded up their postseason roster with five lefties, including a rookie,...
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