WASHINGTON — Shane Victorino is in his fifth season with the Philadelphia Phillies.

After homering in the third inning yesterday against the Washington Nationals, he paid tribute to the team's late broadcaster Harry Kalas, who spent 39 years as the voice of the Phillies.

Victorino, a St. Anthony High alum from Maui, Ryan Howard and Raul Ibanez homered for Philadelphia in a 9-8 victory over winless Washington (0-7).

After Victorino homered, he crossed himself, then pointed up to the booth at Nationals Park where Kalas was supposed to be working.

According to www.MLB.com, Victorino and some of the other Phillies saw Kalas in the locker room before their pregame workout. Kalas, who also served as a broadcaster with the Hawaii Islanders in the 1960s, was walking around talking to people around noon before going back up to the booth.

"He was here today, walking around the clubhouse (and) came over to say hi to the guys," Victorino told www.MLB.com.

The Phillies had a photo of Kalas, who was 73, taped inside their dugout during the game. He collapsed in the stadium's broadcasting booth a couple of hours before the first pitch and died after being taken to a hospital.

"It sounds like he passed in the place he would want to," said Howard, whose three-run homer in the seventh snapped a 4-4 tie. "He was up in the booth."