THE FEEL-GOOD stories come at you nightly these days.
June call-up Zack Eflin bounces back from one of the worst-ever pitching debuts to vie with Vince Velasquez as the Phillies most anticipated starter. In barely more than two weeks time, Peter Bourjos morphs from a player batting behind the pitcher to someone intentionally walked with the game on the line.
Jeanmar Gomez pitches so well as the team's closer it's hard to imagine he will be doing that in August.
No longer damned with the interim tag, Pete Mackanin shows he is both capable enough and tough enough to manage in this town, handling praise and criticism with the same self-deprecating smirk, steadying a team filled with players who still aren't sure who they are as players, or what they can be.