Weather: 70,
cloudy
Time: 3:10
Attendance:
7,304
Section 213,
Row J, Seat 3 – upper level, a few rows below the press box, just to the right
of home plate, on the aisle (not sure why there were no seats 1 or 2). Very
comfortable weather for a game, the lights were on at the start but the sun
came out around 2:30.
Champion
Stadium certainly doesn’t have any small-town charm, but if you can tolerate
ESPN / Disney corporate overload – Mickey supervised the ceremonial first pitch
– it’s not a bad place to see a ball game. While the main concession stands
mostly featured “baskets” (sandwich or other entrée with chips or fries) that
ran over ten bucks, I found a decent pork BBQ sandwich for $8.50, along with a
bottle of Coke that was a relative bargain at $3.25.
The Braves
gave three-inning auditions to two of their young starting rotation candidates.
Mike Foltynewicz didn’t particularly help himself, giving up a run in the
second prior to walking two (including the Phillies pitcher), then yielding
back-to-back homers to Ryan Howard in the third. Manny Banuelos, on the other
hand, kept the Phils off the scoreboard for the next three innings.
Severino
Gonzalez got the start for the Phils and made a good impression, working
quickly and shutting out Atlanta in his three innings of work. Colton Murray
and Paul Clemens extended the shutout through the sixth, but Andrelton Simmons
hit a two-run homer off Clemens in the seventh and tied the game later in the
inning with a run off Phillippe Aumont. The Phils, however, came back against
Luis Vizcaino for two in the top of the eighth, which featured the odd sight of
Aumont being allowed to bat with two outs and the bases loaded. (He struck
out.)
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