Phillies

MIAMI - When Charlie Manuel entered the dugout at Marlins Park a few hours before a 7-3 Phillies win Tuesday, the 69-year-old manager was unnoticed. He yelled in a high-pitched voice to call attention. "Ta-da!" After 7:11 p.m., when the first pitch was thrown, it was as if Manuel snapped his fingers and everything went right for the Phillies. They scored seven runs, their most in a game in 19 days. Their 15 hits tied a season high. They pitched with efficiency, led by Tyler Cloyd.

HARRISBURG - Allegheny County Judge Jack McVay defeated Philadelphia Municipal Judge Joseph Waters Jr. yesterday for the Democratic nomination for a vacant seat on the state Superior Court. The McVay, 56, a former pharmacist who's serving his sixth year in the county's Family Court division, beat Waters, 60, a retired Philadelphia police captain who is in his fourth year on the bench, in the only statewide race on primary day. McVay will face Harrisburg lawyer Vic Stabile, who's unopposed for the Republican nomination, in the November general election.

His team has failed to win more than three games in a row this season. Two-thirds of the season-opening starting rotation is on the disabled list, as are the starting catcher and setup man. The power-hitting first baseman has not hit for much power or much at all lately and is dealing with a sore left knee. Middle relief is an oxymoron and the offense is often marked absent. The two biggest offseason additions in the outfield have contributed little. Welcome to the world of Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., who fielded a series of questions about his struggling team Tuesday morning.

Poptent , the video-production outfit with a major office in Conshohocken that uses crowdsourcing to produce content, has named a new CEO. Nick Pahade will succeed Rick Parkhill , the California investor who founded Poptent in 2007 to match independent filmmakers with Fortune 100 companies and ad agencies to generate content at about one-seventh the cost of traditional production. Starting June 3, Pahade, who lives in the Princeton area, will be based out of the Conshohocken headquarters, where about 30 of Poptent's 55 employees work.

MIAMI - They closed the upper deck at Marlins Park, a stadium that has lived for 14 months of baseball. Interest in the home team is infinitesimal. The Marlins scored 2.66 runs per game before Monday, and that is fewer than any major-league team since the game integrated in 1947. They were not the worst offense in the building on this night. The Phillies came to Florida with hopes of eclipsing .500. After a 5-1 embarrassment, they must win the next two to secure a series victory against the National League's worst team.

It was 4:47 p.m. Sunday when a beaming Charlie Manuel sauntered into his team's clubhouse. He found Freddy Galvis, shook the diminutive hero's hand, and disappeared to pack for an eight-game road trip. As Galvis described his elation upon hitting an unbelievable home run that sealed a 3-2 Phillies victory to a throng of reporters, Kevin Frandsen jumped up and down to make Galvis laugh. A few lockers away, Carlos Ruiz struggled to pull green shorts over his wrapped right leg. Across the room, Ryan Howard dismissed the notion that a left knee injury that apparently has afflicted him since spring training was serious.

Does Philadelphia have room for one more specialized business incubator? It may, indeed, if enough education- technology entrepreneurs choose to take the plunge into what the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education calls its new Education Design Studio Fund . Even the name suggests that what Penn is planning will be unlike spaces such as GoodCompany Group's residency program for social enterprises in Center City,...

At Marlins Park, Miami. Monday at 7:10 p.m. LHP Cole Hamels (1-6, 4.61 ERA) vs. Miami RHP Alex Sanabia (2-6, 5.00).   Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. RHP Tyler Cloyd (0-0, 2.84) vs. Miami RHP Jose Fernandez (2-2, 3.48).   Wednesday at 7:10 p.m. LHP Cliff Lee (4-2, 2.83) vs. Miami RHP Kevin Slowey (1-4, 3.44).

IT'S NO SECRET that a lot of legendary players have hooped it up at New York City playgrounds. On Wednesday, the documentary "Doin' it in the Park" opens in the Big Apple - a homage to the city's courts and players. As far as we know, no one has done a similar film about Philly, even though the city has a rich history of guys and girls who honed their skills in pickup games on asphalt courts. Players like (in no particular order), Wilt Chamberlain, Hank Gathers, Bo Kimble, Gene Banks, Bryant "Sad Eyes" Watson, Guy Rodgers, Earl Monroe, Walt Hazzard, Lewis "Black Magic" Lloyd, Aaron "AO" Owens, Randy Woods, Wali Jones, Lionel Simmons, Marilyn Stephens, Linda Page, Yolanda Laney and Debbie Lytle.

WHEN YOU are scuffling, there is no such thing as a little mistake. Domonic Brown's sixth-inning throw to first is misplayed into an eventual unearned run . . . Cliff Lee's ninth-inning baserunning gaffe gives dominant Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman a two-out save opportunity . . . and there you are again yesterday, tortured, angered, ready to swear off the local nine for maybe the 10th time just in the last month. Why didn't Charlie Manuel use an everyday player to run instead of a pitcher?