Phillies' Roy Halladay wins battle of aces vs. Giants

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    Roy Halladay walked Aubrey Huff in the fifth inning on a close inside pitch, caught the ball from catcher Carlos Ruiz and stared at home plate umpire Marty Foster for several seconds.

    Foster muttered a few words to the mound, and Halladay barked back. The pitcher pointed behind the plate -- later calling it a miscommunication with his catcher, not the umpire -- and regained his rhythm following a rare show of emotion.

    "They weren't strikes," Halladay said smiling after watching the replay in the clubhouse. "But when you're struggling to repeat, you want all of them."

    On a night when neither ace was at his dominating best, Halladay never flinched.
    Halladay outlasted Tim Lincecum in a matchup of two-time Cy Young Award winners, leading the Philadelphia Phillies past the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Monday night.

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