During the bottom of the fifth inning of tonight’s Phillies/Braves game, Tom McCarthy continued to cater to fans of the Sarge Matthews hat collection (meeee!) and brought up the stylings of one Brian Dawkins during the post game press conference last night. Sarge, of course, had his own opinion:

That hat was very, very serious.  It cost him a few bucks, I’ll tell you that.

Well, if anyone would know Sarge, it’s you.

The Fightins’ drew first blood against Boston in front of a raucous, sold-out crowd in South Philadelphia last night. A fired-up Phillies team practically put the game away after the 2nd pitch in the bottom of the 1st when defending NL MVP Jimmy Rollins cleansed a Colon fastball deeeep into right field. Three batters later, Ryan Howard hit the first of his two opposite field homers on the night to make it 3-0, and that would be all they needed. Hamels was sharp as usual, the only blemishes being back-to-back solo shots surrendered to Dustin Pedroia & JD Booo in the fifth.

After the jump, some more game notes…

UPDATE: Per request, more pink ape man at the bottom.

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