There's a guy sitting behind home plate with a shirt that looks like it says "ABC Stole Slacks Hoagie's Logo", who knows.
Phils first, three outs to Ethier, two hit very hard.
Howard is now, after his strike out 0-12 against Kuroda with five K's, including this one that was a ball that bounced six feet in front of the plate. He has been doing that a lot lately.
Fourth inning Phils finally get first hit. But then Howard swings and misses another wild pitch that almost him on his back foot and Raul pops out to left.
Holy cow. Martinez triples with 2 outs, Hamels walks. Kuroda fires a wild pitch to the backstop, and they still can't score.
What the H?
Martinez runs halfway down and stops, goes back to third. He could have walked to the plate. It just boggles the mind.
Now they walk Victorino to get to Brown.
Kuroda is up near 90 pitches already here in the fifth inning.
Brown has been swinging at balls in the dirt too lately.
Broken bat bloop out to right field.
Ryan Howard finally ends the homeless streak in the sixth by dropping one just over the fence in right.
They get two more on but don't get any more.
Cole let's the first two Dodgers on in the top of the seventh, first hand third and gets out of it with zero Dodger runs. He is having another great performance.
He is the best pitcher this season.
Bottom seven, the Phils pick up a huge extra run.
Victorino triples with one out and with the infield in Dom Brown hits a ball to second. Shane goes on contact and slides just under the tag.
The key to that was Brown making contact and not popping up as this team seams to do a lot.
Cole works out of another little jam in the eighth so we move on to the Phils half then the ninth with at least a 2-0 lead. I doubt Hamels will be out there. It's still over 90 degrees out and a bit humid so looks like Madson.
More on the Slacks controversy. From http://www.philliedelphia.com/
"Were you squinting at the TV trying to read what the white t-shirt said in the guy behind home plate? It read,
"ABC STOLE SLACK'S HOAGIE'S LOGO"
What is this about, you may ask? Well, as chronicled by the Daily News' Dan Gross, ABC's hit show "Cougar Town" features a business called "Mel's Hoagie Hut", with a very familiar logo:
It would appear that the man wearing the t-shirt behind home plate is Dennis Slack himself."
So there it is. ABC borrowed the Slacks Hoagie Logo.
Mood is reserved. They did win but still only 5 hits. Cole Hamels is on his way to a top pick for a Cy Young award.
Win 2-1
streak 1 win
Last ten 4-6
Record 37-25 Tied with the Cards for best record pending their game tonight.
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From Philly.com on Hoagiegate.
"Dennis Slack was shocked to see his Slack's Hoagie Shack logo used on ABC's "Cougar Town" April 27, with the name changed to Mel's Hoagie Hut.
Slack tells us he hopes to avoid a lawsuit but has been talking with ABC's legal department about reparations. He would like the show to continue to use his logo but with the actual name of his sandwich shop. It first opened at 2499 Aramingo Ave., in Port Richmond, and now has 12 other franchise locations in the area and as far away as Atlanta.
Slack is upset because the infringed logo will continue to be seen, online and on DVD. He believes that someone who works on the show is familiar with his logo and used it to represent Mel's Hoagie Hut. Slack thought it was odd, as do we, that the Courteney Cox show, set in Florida, used the term hoagie, which is exclusive to this area. "I was trying to avert a lawsuit because I thought what I was asking should have been obvious and easy enough to do," Slack told us Monday. Slack says that had ABC asked permission to use his logo, he would have said "Of course, but with our name," and been happy to receive the prime-time exposure.
An ABC spokeswoman did not return requests for comment."
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