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- Updated: August 30, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard got a start on Tuesday vs. Washington’s Max Scherzer, but after this, his name will appear less frequently on the lineup card.
“I’ll play [Howard] today, then tomorrow [Tommy] Joseph,” manager Pete Mackanin said. “Then I’ll lean on Joseph a bit more the rest of the way. I want to see him more.”
The decision was not passed down the organizational chain; Mackanin said it was his alone.
“It makes sense to see Joseph as much as possible,” he said. “I don’t want to happen to him what happened to [Darin] Ruf, where we didn’t have opportunities to get him …
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