Phillies to take it Four Games at a Time in the World Series

Charlie Manuel and the Philadelphia Phillies will be ignoring the old
philosophy of taking it one game at a time for the World Series. The World Series begins tonight in New York and the Phillies will be focusing on games 1, 2, 4 and 6 because those are the ones they believe they can win. They will rest their starters in the other games.

“Winning one game doesn’t do us any good in the World Series” said Manuel. “You need to win four games to get a ring, not one. We are going to do everything we can to win the games that we have the best chances of winning."

Sticking to his word, Manuel has submitted both his starting lineups and injury reports for those four games. He is expected to give his pregame speech for all of the four games before Game 1, rather than waiting to do them before each individual game. Players will take four times the batting practice than they are used to today, but will not take batting practice before games 2, 4, and 6.