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They were, instead, battered like an old broom, the bullpen blowing two games and the Phillies eventually finishing with the National League’s second-best record and that first-round vacation.

But for deep frying something like chips or battered fish, vegetable or sunflower oil is best as they withstand higher temperatures without breaking down.

This battered two-story home with ominous scratches on the basement door has been in Todd’s family for six generations, as the cemetery out back proves.

When tropical rains battered the building earlier this month, leaks seemed to spout from everywhere, said one 40-year-old man.

Hawke plays his bruised and battered aging hero without a hint of vanity.