As I may have mentioned in my last post, I'm not on the west coast. Who needs San Fran when you can spend a perfectly splendid night in Allentown?

Intriguing matchup tonight, with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs up against the Columbus Clippers -- 1/3 of the Columbus lineup is comprised of guys scheduled to play for the IronPigs two days ago.

Carlos Carrasco is starting.... and he's pitching well to a familiar target, catcher Lou Marson (Jason Donald is at shortstop). Carrasco has thrown three shutout innings thus far, holding his former team to two hits while striking out four.

On the other side is a guy fighting to get his big league career back on track - Pedro Martinez. Pedro's second pitch of the game landed in the right field bleachers.

Also in Allentown: former Phils first-round pick Joe Savery. He was promoted from Reading today.

"One of the tough things about this job is to try to understand what you have and try to understand what you’re capable of and not trying to do more than that," said Savery, who has had a breakout season, winning 12 games, while going under the radar (while the focus has been on Kyle Drabek) at Double-A Reading.