Here’s the morning sports report: A hint, it’s not good.

Charlie Manuel is constantly being second-guessed for pulling his pitchers too soon.

This morning he no doubt is going to get heat for going the other way.

Manuel, with currently the best bullpen in the league at his disposal, instead sent his ace, Cole Hamels, back out to the hill in the eighth inning last night in Milwaukee. At the time Hamels was sitting on 110 pitches. He’s also clearly the horse of this staff.

This time the horse drove the fans buggy.

Hamels, who had been sparkling after getting touched for three runs in the first inning, was mowing down the Brewers. He had retired 10 straight and 18 of 21, striking out 11 along the way.

The Phils were clinging to a 4-3 lead at the time.

Enter Prince Fielder. The Milwaukee slugger singed a wicked line drive over the fence in right-center, after Hamels surrendered a leadoff double. Make it 5-4 Brewers. That’s the way it ended.

Charlie no doubt will be second-guessed. But raise your hand if you would have done the same had Hamels been pulled and the bullpen imploded?

Yep, thought so. That’s the plight of a major league manager.

So let’s move on to the Sixers. Uh, on second thought, let’s not. You could sort of see this one coming. The Sixers got hammered in Game 2 of their series with the Pistons.

Andre Iguodala didn’t exactly sparkle, shooting just 1 for 9. That makes him 5 for 24 in the series. That won’t get it done.

Enough about that. Time to get Flyered up. The Flyers are in Montreal tonight to open their series with the Canadiens.

It says here they win Game 1, but lose the series.