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Phillies blank Blue Jays, 7-0

Cliff Lee pitched two scoreless innings, and Shane Victorino had a two-run single as the Phillies beat the Blue Jays, 7-0, Tuesday.

Cliff Lee gave up two hits in his two scoreless innings of work against the Blue Jays. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)
Cliff Lee gave up two hits in his two scoreless innings of work against the Blue Jays. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)Read more

Cliff Lee pitched two scoreless innings and Shane Victorino had a two-run single as the Phillies beat the Blue Jays, 7-0.

Lee allowed two hits and struck out one in his spring debut. He escaped trouble in the first by getting two-time home run champion Jose Bautista to ground into an inning-ending double play.

Lee pitched out of more trouble in the second. He walked Adam Lind to open the inning and retired Edwin Encarnacion on a pop up before Brett Lawrie doubled. With runners on second and third, Lee struck out Travis Snider and got J.P. Arencibia to fly out to center to end the inning.

Kyle Kendrick followed and allowed one hit in two scoreless innings. He recorded two of the Phillies' eight strikeouts. Kendrick allowed a triple to Johnson, but no other Blue Jay reached third base the rest of the game against a rotation of relievers. Seven Phillies pitchers limited the Blue Jays to seven hits.

The Phillies' bats stayed equally quiet until the four-run third inning.

Carlos Ruiz, making his spring debut, opened with a single and advanced to third on consecutive walks by Jimmy Rollins and Juan Pierre.

Victorino, hitless to that point this spring, hit a ground ball up the middle that glanced off Johnson's glove and trickled into center field, scoring Ruiz and Rollins. Ty Wigginton followed with a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Pierre, and John Mayberry drove in Victorino with a single.

Lou Montanez added an RBI sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and Freddy Galvis drove in another with a double in the ninth as the Phillies evened their spring record at 2-2.

Hector Luna started at third base and made the defensive play of the game. Luna ranged several steps to his right to rob Encarnacion of extra bases, throwing him out from foul territory.

Vance Worley is scheduled to start Wednesday against Houston's Bud Norris.