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Phillies Fall to Lowly Harrisburg, 6-2

July 15, 2007 - Eastern League (EL1)
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Reading, PA -- The Phillies were oh-for-Sunday; the Harrisburg Senators had lost six straight. Something had to give.

Well, the Phillies fell to 0-7 on Sundays, the Senators won for just the 32nd time this season, 6-2, and there is no truth to the rumor that Phillies management has moved all future home Sunday games to Monday double-headers.

The Senators (32-63) won here for just the fourth time in 15 games and defeated the Phillies for just the sixth time in 22 meetings. The Phillies (48-46), meanwhile, lost a four-game winning streak as they left for a 10-game road streak that begins in Erie, and should define their standings in the playoff race.

Frank Diaz's sixth-inning solo home run put the Senators up to stay. In the eighth, Josh Whitesell waited nicely on a breaking ball and parked it over the fence in center for a two-run homer, his 14th and third in the four-game series.

The Phillies had taken a 2-1 lead in the fifth on Mike Costanzo's two-run double inside the first-base bag, one of only five hits by the home team.

The win went to Mike Hinckley (8-8); Patrick Overholt (2-4) took the loss.

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