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Article: TOM HAUDRICOURT WORLD SERIES Major League Baseball If bats stay off with runners on, Phillies will go out
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2008
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Philadelphia -- It was a malady that plagued the Milwaukee
Brewers throughout the 2008 season, playing a significant role in
getting the manager fired with two weeks remaining.
Now, at the worst possible time, the Philadelphia Phillies have
contracted it.
Hitting with runners in scoring position, the very essence of
performing in the clutch with a bat in your hands, has gone AWOL for
the National League champs. In the first two games of the World
Series, the Phillies have exactly one hit in 28 at-bats with RISP.
And that was an infield hit in the fourth inning of Game 2 by
Shane Victorino that did not deliver a base runner.