Everything about Mason Black's major-league debut was, as the 24-year-old right-hander put it a day earlier, storybook. Everything, that is, except for the final score. Phillies 6, Giants 1.
With scores of friends and family from his nearby hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in attendance, Black mowed through the powerful Phillies twice. He faced six batters in the fifth inning and retired only one of them.
Until the fifth, Black had been doing his best impression of Roy Halladay, the Phillies pitcher he admired most growing up. Harper's home run was his second of the series, driving in six runs between them.
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