Philly.com · Aug 27, 2015
Pardon our Frenchy
Jeff Francoeur and Ken Giles celebrate their win over the Toronto Blue Jays. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)THE PLAYERS had retreated to their respective benches. Calm had been restored, the Phillies retired in order to end the seventh inning. Hanging over the dugout rail, Jeff Francoeur had already washed away an unfamiliar angry face with his more familiar happy face when Cameron Rupp returned from warming up the pitcher with one final message from harassed plate umpire Dan Bellino.
"He said, 'Tell Frenchy we all love him,' " Francoeur was saying at his locker before last night's game. " 'And that's why he's still in the game.' "