daniel nova.ad to the sixth, the reds use a pitcher as a pinch hitter because their bench is thin. strange but not if he does this. he smacks a solo homer, he is a pitcher. the phillies lose this game 7-4. the home opener coming up tomorrow. >>> ryan howard found a new home with the braves of all teams. the former slugger is trying to keep his career alive and the a minor league deal. he will go to spring training next week before joining the gwinnett braves. >>> and dawn staley is celebrating and who can blame her, she is still celebrating, she coached south carolina to a ncaa championship over the weekend. jeff skversky is here with more. >> reporter: hey ducis. three decades after winning public league championships. dawn staley returns to a hero's homecoming after winning the national championship at south carolina's head coach. with the final four net wrapped around her net, which she calls a netlace. she won her first national champion with north carolina. >> the people of north philly and t

finished up the series yesterday, with the daniel nova show, outfielder, actually hit his first homerun, against the phillies, few years back, yesterday, his first two at bat, two homeruns for the phils. unfortunately, after that, after those two homeruns, four-nothing lead, then fell apart, as the reds brought to the plate michael, relief pitcher pinch hitting, he slams a homerun to centerfield, the reds, unfortunately, beat the phillies seven-four, and they take the series. now to the action today, 30:00, a little chilly here, vince val he is quest takes the field for the phillies, first start of the season, showed plenty of promise last year striking out 152 batters, 131 innings, including, 16 in his first start in this ballpark a year ago, on april 14th. so he's a strikeout machine. phillies hope he starts off the same way he did here in 2016. he's up against one of the best, as well, scherzer, the raining nl cy young award winner, he won 20 games a year ago. the run down for today, in the ballpark outside of the ballpark begins at noon with the festivities, block party gets started

things were looking up when daniel nova put them up -one in the third with the second home run of the day but red later tied it at four. untied it for good in the sixth when pinch hitter michael lorenzo hit a solo home run off adam morgan as phillies dropped this 17-four. >>> ryan howard could play again at citizens bank park at some point in the future. how about that. former philly signed a minor league contract with the braves thursday, starting out in extended spring training and join braves triple a club. >>> to the sixers, they have who four straight hosting bulls this play summed up their night, tj mcconn em loses ball, jimmy butt her scores. mcconnell hurt, but would come back. sixers would not, they dropped this 1102-90. >>> masters favorite dustin johnson withdrew on thursday, round one belonged to charlie hoffman. birdied five of the six, finished seven under 65. good for four stroke lead. that is sports in a minute. this is ron berke. >> ron berke now. >> yeah, part of the team. >> i know his daughter, she used to be a intern here. she's great. she's on the air down in vir

the road, and it was a 12:35 start and it went well right from the start from the phillies, and daniel nova at bats for the phils. not a bad start for him in a phillies uniform, then fell apart. michael, relief pitcher, pinch hitting, hits homerun to centerfield unfortunately the reds beat the phillies seven-four. and they end up taking the series to the action today, as i said, 3:05, and we will see vince velasquez on the mound here at cbp. he showed a lot of promise last year. striking out 152 batters, and 131 innings, and if you recall last year's first stat at citizens bank park, he struck out 16 padres going all nine innings for the phillies hoping for return of that vince velasquez, so again, pitch war loft promise, going up against the cy young award winner from the national league, last year, his name mack scherzer. that's the baseball aspect of it, but plenty more including food. anthony here, good morning. >> hello, how are you today? >> doing well. doing even better now. what do we have here? >> few new items we're offering here at the ballpark, first item here, an inch in-house

things were looking up when daniel nova put team up three- one in the third with the second home runthe day but the red tied it at four- 46789 untied it for good in the sixth when michael laurens, hit it off adam morgan as phillies dropped this 17-four. >>> ryan howard could play again at citizens bank park in the future. former philly signed a mine are league contract with the braves thursday. he will start out in extended spring training and join the braves triple a club. >>> to the sixers they have lost four straight hosting the bulls this sum up their night, tj mcconnell loses ball, he was hurt on the play. would come back. sixers would not. they dropped 102-90. >>> masters favorite dustin johnson withdrew with the bad back, round one belonged to charlie hoffman. he finished seven under 65. good for a four stroke lead. that is sports in a minute. this is ron burke. >>> heading for the border, then be prepared for something different, coming up at 4:30, the new it item the attack owe bell. >>> and it is excellent. exciting. if you're looking frien. "hi!!!" "hi everybody" "cookie!"