OOTP 6/23: Phillies 5, Braves 4

Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images I love pitching matchups like this. Tonight, the Phillies send Jake Arrieta to the mound, the $25 million man whose contract wouldn’t let them sign the Braves’ starter for the night, Cole Hamels. It’s a matchup of what you have versus what you could have had. Ask any random Phillies fan on the street who they’d rather have pitching for them, 9 times out of 10 you’ll get the same answer. Tonight didn’t let us down.

It started out as a pitching duel.

Both Arrieta and Hamels were cruising right along for the first four innings, not allowing much of anything outside of a bases loaded threat by the Phillies in the top of the second inning that they failed to…