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Phillies' All-Star Batteries
Phillies' batteries in the All-Star Game.
If NL manager Tony LaRussa plays his cards correctly and has Cole Hamels and Carlos Ruiz in Tuesday's All-Star Game at the same time, it will be the fourth time in All-Star History that there would be an all-Phillies battery. (A battery, for those people under 40, is a nickname for the pitcher-catcher tandem.)
If it happens, here's hoping Hamels/Ruiz can fare a little better than two of the three previous all-Phillies batteries (both of which were products of the starting lineups). The other battery (Heathcliff Slocumb and Darren Daulton) did combine for an ASG win, thanks to a eighth-inning home run by Jeff Conine (who would have a cup of coffee with the Phillies later in his career):