Phillies’ Don Mattingly accomplishes impressive feat after Red Sox win, showing he was the man for the job

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The Philadelphia Phillies' struggles to start the season were a bit surprising, even if people thought Dave Dombrowski and the rest of the front office shouldn't have run this same team back.

For whatever reason, the Phillies went in that direction, and they seemingly paid the price for that in the early stages of the campaign. Fast forward about a month, and the Phillies have been one of the better teams in baseball over that stretch, now sitting at 20-22 after what was one of the most disappointing starts we've ever seen in baseball.

Winners of seven of their last 10 games, the Phillies feel really good, and we have to give a ton of credit to Don Mattingly for what he was able to do for this team to turn things around.

After moving on from skipper Rob Thomson, there were some questions about what would come next. Instead of that being a bigger problem than it had to be, Mattingly has done an excellent job and shows why he should probably be viewed as the potential full-time skipper for this roster in the future.

Even better, he made some history for himself on Tuesday night, something he's probably always wanted to do.

“Don Mattingly wins his 900th career game as manager, and is now 11-3 since taking over as manager of the Phillies,” USA Today's Bob Nightengale wrote.