Phillies prospects dominate at Double-A all-star game
Six Reading players dominated the Eastern League All-Star Game.
No team in American professional baseball has more wins than the Double-A Reading Fightin Phils, and they were naturally well-represented at the Eastern League's All-Star Game on Wednesday in Akron, Ohio.
The six selected players dominated the game.
Jorge Alfaro, Dylan Cozens, Rhys Hoskins and Jesmuel Valentin went 7-for-13 at the plate with a homer and two doubles. They scored six of their team's 10 runs and drove in three of them.
Nick Pivetta and Hoby Milner, two lesser-regarded prospects, tossed 1 2/3 hitless innings.
Hoskins, who leads all minor league hitters in homers, crushed a first-inning home run. Alfaro went 3-for-3 with three singles. Cozens walked and scored two runs. Valentin, son of Jose, doubled twice.
Dusty Wathan, Reading's manager, guided the Eastern Division to a 10-2 win in the game. His counterpart was impressed.
"We were joking that maybe we should have put together an all-star team from everybody else in the league and play Reading," Akron manager Dave Wallace told milb.com. "It's a compliment to their whole organization."
Reading is back in action Thursday at Trenton.