Franco went hitless?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop the clock.
"He just missed some pitches," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said afterward, when asked if the Yankees made adjustments to Franco. "They might have stayed away from him a little bit, but he had some very good swings."
The fact that questions had been asked about a Phillies player going hitless because he usually does damage is a nice change of pace. The Phillies enter Friday night's series opener against the Nationals and Max Scherzer averaging 3.22 runs per game, which would finish the season as the sixth-lowest average in Major League Baseball since 1972.