Fifth-inning fade-out

3 July 2008, 1:45 am

Even with Brett Myers cloaked in a Lehigh Valley IronPigs uniform Wednesday night, the trouble that repeatedly found him on big league mounds this season tracked him to Coca-Cola Park.The bottom line was a mixed-results outing for the 27-year-old right-hander who was making the first of an unspecified number of starts for the Triple-A IronPigs after going 3-9 with a 5.84 ERA for the parent Philadelphia Phillies. He accepted the demotion Tuesday.Myers overcame a four-pitch walk in the first inning and a leadoff double in the second to keep the Scranton Yankees scoreless for four innings. He struck out six batters during his five-inning outing.... read more

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