Switch-pitcher Venditte ready to fight for role

Pat Venditte snags a comebacker and fires to second to begin a 1-6-3 double play in the 4th inningCLEARWATER, Fla. -- This is not the first time that Pat Venditte told the origin story of his six-fingered glove.

But it is a new one for most Phillies fans. Venditte is an ambidextrous pitcher, the first to pitch in the big leagues since Greg Harris pitched one inning ambidextrously for the Expos on Sept. 28, 1995, and the third to pitch ambidextrously in the big leagues since 1894.

Venditte, 31, got his first six-fingered glove as a 7-year-old, after his father traced his hands on paper and faxed them to Mizuno in Osaka, Japan.

"Two months later I had my first glove," Venditte said Thursday…