Article: PHILADELPHIA -- When Brett Myers walked off [Derived headline]

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Burlington County Times
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September 25, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA -- When Brett Myers walked off the pitcher's mound in the top of the fifth inning yesterday, he carried his glove in his right hand and swung it at his side, as if the glove were a briefcase and he were a businessman who had just finished a bad day at the office.

Bad day, all right. Bad time for it. Myers didn't last five innings because the Atlanta Braves batted him around Citizens Bank Park. Ten hits and six runs in only 41/3 innings for Myers, a 10-4 loss, another wasted opportunity to get themselves closer to a postseason berth -- no, the Phillies couldn't afford this out of Myers. They couldn't afford another start in which he didn't give them a chance to win.

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