The beginning of the weekend series of rivalry of Major League Baseball between the Philadelphia Philis and the Pittsburgh pirates was also an end. Before the season, NBC Sports Philadelphia announced that the philis logo was changing in its “P” PHI letter score.
Normally, that would not be a story worthy of headlines. But in doing so, the transmission deprived fans of a simple pleasure in life: see a “p00p” marker who will face the philis with the pirates.
On Friday night, the network decided to pay tribute to that score of “missing but never forgotten.”
“It was more than a marker. It was a legend,” he solemnly read the announcer of the phillies Tom McCarthy. “An unforgettable icon. His name, with laughter, quickly became synonymous with good times and fierce rivalries. As the last exit reaches his bright and brilliant career, it will be lost.”
It was a lovely, but absurd game, for a game that followed a similar theme.
Bryce Harper reached 1,000 ranked races and was part of a wild rally of the seventh entry in which the Philis scored four races in just one hit in an 8-4 victory.
Harper, who had three hits and reached the base four times, picked up his drive milestone with a Bloop single to the left garden in front of the pirates Andrew Heaney. Harper is one of the eight active players with 1,000 ranked races.
The Filis scored four races in the seventh entrance when six consecutive batters, including Harper, reached the base against three reliefs. Only one, Trea Turner, had a success. Everyone else reached the base through a walk or blow by launch, and three of the four races scored without a ball being at stake.
Philadelphia added three more races in the eighth entrance. Turner had a triple RBI, and Harper added No. 1.001 with a single.
The interim pirates manager, Don Kelly, was expelled from the game by the referee of the third base John Libka after discussing Libka’s call from No Swing in Harper that resulted in a walk to load the bases.
Presumable, Kelly thought that the call was, well, let’s say that he remembers the ancient score of the Philis.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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