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Dodgers must improve crowd control in Philly

By Jeff Bradley
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, October 10, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -- Sports fans in Philadelphia are known to be rude, crude and not very polite. They are also known to be loud. In Game 1 of the National League Championship Series at Citizens Bank Park, they were so loud, Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe admitted they got to him. No, the raucous Phillies fans didn't cause Lowe to melt down the way fellow Dodgers right-hander Burt Hooton melted down at Veterans Stadium some 31 years ago, when Hooton literally couldn't throw a strike and had to be pulled ...

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