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Wright, Beltran, Church power Santana, Mets past Phillies

Associated Press

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

NEW YORK -- Johan Santana was angry. He had just allowed four home runs in a game for only the second time in 221 major league starts, and New York Mets manager Jerry Manuel was out at the mound to give him the hook in the eighth inning after a season-low 91 pitches. "I'm a man. I'm a man," Manuel remembered his ace telling him. "What he means by that, I don't know." On a rare off-night, Santana was in a contrary mood. He defied a bunt sign to double in the tying run, and David Wright, Carlos ...

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