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News: Franco homers as Phils lose, Quinn hopes to stay healthy

Good morning! Here’s the news:

PHILLIES LOSE: The Rays took down the Phillies Monday in Grapefruit League action, winning by a final of 7-2. The highlight was Maikel Franco’s third spring home run, a no-doubter in the fourth off Ryan Garton. While it’s great to see Franco mashing, remember … it’s early.

Otherwise, Hector Gomez added two late hits and Odubel Herrera doubled (with his first spring bat flip!).

Jerad Eickhoff pitched two relatively fine innings, striking out two and allowing a run. Prospect Drew Anderson had one good inning and one bad inning, but struck out four in the process.

TODAY’S GAME: The Phils stay home to meet the Orioles. Game is at 1:05 p.m. Clay Buchholz will make his spring debut for the Phils.

THE HEALTHY QUINN: One piece to link today: Mike Sielski at the Inquirer has a column about Roman Quinn; specifically about how the speedy outfielder plans to stay healthy in 2017.

We can only hope.

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.