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Are the Phillies for real? Mackanin says yes
- Updated: May 2, 2016
ST. LOUIS — For now, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin isn’t getting tired of being asked repeatedly whether his surging club is for real.
“Every time we play somebody, I get the same question, but it’s a good question because of course we do,” Mackanin said. “We played the Mets, we played them well. We just got done sweeping the Nationals and that was one of those teams where we wanted to gauge how good we were.
“Cleveland has got some pretty good hitters over there. At least through the first 25 games, we’ve held our own against contenders. I choose to believe that we’ll be competitive the rest of the year because of our pitching and defense.”
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