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Phillies lean to the left

By Jayson Stark

Saturday, October 10, 2009

DENVER -- Charlie Manuel may not be a big fan of leftovers, the Left Bank or the Left Coast. But the Phillies' manager is obviously a man who thinks left-handers are baseball's greatest invention since the fungo bat. Once the temperatures started sinking, glop started dropping out of the Colorado sky and Game 3 of the Phillies' National League Division Series against the Rockies got wintered out Saturday, Manuel jumped at the chance to start a third straight left-hander -- J.A. Happ -- in this ...

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