Meet Charlie Manuel, baseball genius.

You couldn’t script what happened last night at Citizens Bank Park.

The Phillies threw almost more than 80 years of arms at the Diamondbacks, sandwiched around a 66-minute rain delay.

Most of the people were anticipating the first home start for the latest addition to the Phils’ pitching staff, right-hander Pedro Martinez.

Ironically, they also got an added treat, a gem of a relief performance by the man he replaced in the starting rotation.

It was just a week ago that Manuel and the Phils’ brass were facing the very ticklish situation of adding the three-time Cy Young Award winner Martinez to their starting pitching staff. Someone had to go. That someone turned out to be Moyer.

He was not especially happy about it. And, in a very un-Jamie Moyer-like moment, gathered the media in Chicago to tell them exactly how he felt about it. He used words like “misled.”

Last night at a once-again sold-out Citizens Bank Park, Martinez walked to the mound while Moyer headed to the bullpen. Then Mother Nature got involved.

Martinez threw three innings, giving up one run, before lightning and a pounding rain storm sent everyone running for cover.

Over an hour later, it was the man Martinez replaced who walked out to the mound. It was Moyer’s first relief appearance since 2004, and he made it one to remember.

Moyer tossed six scoreless innings, giving up just two singles while striking out five.

Surely Charlie Manuel planned exactly this way.

Maybe he should make them a tandem. Last night “Pedro Moyer” looked pretty formidable.

So did Charlie Manuel, baseball genius.