Dom Brown

PHILADELPHIA—If there’s to be an unofficial home run duel, bring it. Ryan Howard and Domonic Brown say they’re game. “That’s all good with me,” Howard said after the Phillies 4-1 win over the Miami Marlins at Citizens Bank Park Friday night...

PHILADELPHIA—Save for a few whispers during pregame hacks, Charlie Manuel didn’t say much about it. “I didn’t really talk about how we played or nothing,” the Phillies manager said of a two-game series in Cleveland best left forgotten...

Much was made of the Phillies' revamped offense after adding healthy bats like Chase Utley and Ryan Howard for a full season.  Plus, the additions of professional hitter Michael Young and a pair of younger players Dom Brown and Ben Revere, who both had solid a spring training...

PHILADELPHIA—Do anything 162 times, and you’re bound to encounter a few surprises. When “it” happens to be baseball, a few more. So it shouldn’t have shocked anyone that after Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick appeared to be shaking off some early stumbles – he allowed 5 hits and 2 home runs through 4, but just 2 earned runs – the ominous skies opened...

PHILADELPHIA—Domonic Brown’s fifth-inning single to center field on Monday night against the New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park wasn’t a scorcher. But it had enough mustard on it that most baserunners would have had a tough time making it from first to third...

No, most spring stats don't matter. Especially not for hitters. But there does seem to be one that translates to the regular season, and it just so happens to relate to Domonic Brown's white-hot start and the Phillies' biggest need. Walks...

With Phillies spring training heating up in earnest, so too will be interviews that provide cuts and quotes from players that fans love to dissect and make assumptions about. For instance, how differently Darin Ruf and Domonic Brown answered the "what do you have to work on...

There's a reason I didn't give much credit to the possibility of a spring training deal: They don't often happen, not the way they used to in the 1980s and 1990s.  But even if you understand why the Phillies would make a move now, should they...

Phillies baseball is officially meaningful again. Riding seven innings of one-hit ball from Kyle Kendrick, the Phillies handled the Rockies at Citizens Bank Park, 3-1, to pad their winning streak to five games and bump their Wild Card hole to 5...

With Sunday night's news that the Phillies will select from Double-A Reading the contract of Darin Ruf, who plays to the soft spot of this particular baseball man like no other, Charlie Manuel had to be beyond giddy. But, considering the position he was in, facing the media for the first time since the decision and after the Phillies 7-4 win over the Rockies in the second half of a day/nigh