Today is the first day of the rest of Pete Mackanin's tenure as the Phillies' manager.
As the Pete Mackanin Era opened for the Phillies, the 64-year-old former bench coach was tgiven a simple task: Defeat the Miami marlins. The two desperately plummeting entities met in the shadows to kick off a mid-week, late September series featuring zero playoff implications, few starting ERAs under 4.00, and, as always, Aaron Harang.
The Marlins sent Tom Koehler out there to do what he does best: find an opposing team's beating heart and silence it.
Empire State of Mind or not, Cespedes is in his worst funk as a Met right now.