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PHILADELPHIA _ Damon Minor got all of one and he still got nothing. The ball rebelled. It refused to leave the park, despite a baseball tradition that says a ball crushed with all the might of a 6-foot-5, 250-pound man really ought to leave the ballpark.
"I thought it was way, way out," Philadelphia Phillies Manager Larry Bowa said.
Instead, Minor's bid for a three-run home run in the ninth turned into a 400-foot mystery as the Giants lost, 2-1, to the Phillies. It hurt worse for the Giants because the Phillies pulled ahead with the opposite approach. They carved out a two-run rally in the seventh with nibbles and dribbles, scoring their runs on three ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Giants lose to Phillies.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)