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PHILADELPHIA | Back at Citizens Bank Park this afternoon, after my first foray into the world of south Philadelphia cheesesteak shops. For those who were offering suggestions on Twitter, thanks for all your ideas. I wound up at Pat's, since a number of you said that's a place I've got to visit at least once. Besides, my good friend Matt Anderson, who grew up in the Philadelphia area before somehow winding up at the University of Minnesota and moving on to the Greenwood Index-Journal in South Carolina, always said getting a chesesteak from Pat's was like "getting communion from Jesus." There's another part to that story where he got a ticket, and said some unprintable things to the cop issuing it, but we'll leave that out for now. Anyway, Pat's was outstanding - got the mushroom pepper steak with American cheese - and I'm hoping to hit Tony Luke's before I leave town. If not, I get up here enough that I'll take a run at it another time.
Here are the lineups for tonight's game. Ryan Howard, who is coming off the disabled list after a one-day rehab start, will be in the lineup tonight. I'm assuming he wanted a crack at Stephen Strasburg, who is pitching tonight.
The Phillies have seven lefties in the lineup against Strasburg, who has been slightly less dominant against lefties than righties; he has allowed a .741 OPS against lefties, as opposed to .524 against righties.
Nationals:
Morgan - CF
Desmond - SS
Dunn - 1B
Zimmerman - 3B
Bernadina - LF
Kennedy - 2B
Rodriguez - C
Harris - RF
Strasburg - P
Phillies:
Rollins - SS
Polanco - 3B
Utley - 2B
Howard - 1B
Victorino - CF
Ibanez - LF
Brown - RF
Schneider - C
Kendrick - P
