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News: Phils lose to Braves as Burnett shows off

The Phillies lost Wednesday to the Braves, 3-2.

It was a relatively uninteresting contest. Jeremy Hellickson surrendered two runs on five hits in four innings. Mark Appel walked two, struck out three and gave up a run in two innings. The offense did little, with just Roman Quinn making any highlights (single, stolen base, RBI).

Welcome to the dead zone of spring training.

TODAY’S GAME: The Phillies are back home to face old friends the Blue Jays. Game time is at 1:05 p.m. with Jerad Eickhoff on the hill.

BURNETT PROFILE: Sean Burnett pitched well yesterday against Atlanta, going two and giving up just a hit. He’s profiled today by multiple writers – check out Ryan Lawrence’s piece

. Burnett has had Tommy John surgery twice. Yeesh.

FRONT OFFICE PROFILE: Matt Gelb looks at the changing front office dynamic, where Matt Klentak is creating a new analytics department with help from Ned Rice and Andy Galdi, among others.

As for the series, it continues today with Nos. 20-11.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.