However, the first-place Dodgers (62-46) took care of the right-hander by countering with 15 hits and a surplus of support to improve to a season-best 16 games over.500.
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In Thursday afternoon’s 10-8 Dodgers win, however, Greinke allowed a season-high six runs over six innings and his ERA jumped from 1.41 to 1.71.
Rollins received a warm welcome in pre-game introductions and a louder ovation when he led off the game.
Zack Greinke was 3-for-3 with a homer to offset his worst start in three years and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 10-8 on Thursday. Rollins would have a good night against this former team as he was 2 for 5 with a double in his return to Philadelphia.
“I don’t think about it any more. It was a great moment”. Phillies right fielder Jeff Francoeur racked up his 125th career outfield assist on the play – his strong right arm hardly a surprise in his 11th major league season.
Only in baseball can a player receive the special kind of tribute that was bestowed upon Jimmy Rollins by Philadelphia Phillies fans on Tuesday night.
He finished 2 for 5 and struck out against Ken Giles to leave runners on second and third in the eighth. While he wouldn’t reveal exactly what it was, Rollins did say “it wasn’t the happiest of emojis”. He had two hits to the semi-delight of a CBP crowd that cheered his every move early on. “I thought it was down, but the umpire didn’t”.
Gonzalez belted his 22nd home run of the season, but saved Dodgers’ closer Kenley Jansen with some impressive glove work in the bottom of the ninth.
Maybe it was the sheer volume of mistakes against the team with the worst record in baseball – the Dodgers also committed two errors in the field – but Wednesday’s win didn’t feel much different from Tuesday’s loss.
Jorge Soler hit a two-run single in the first inning and Schwarber made it 5-0 with a three-run drive off Chris Heston (11-6) in the second.
“I probably should’ve taken him out after the sixth”.
“Domonic Brown is swinging good now, and really, it’s a tough [top five]”, Greinke said. Greinke allowed only one run in his final five innings. Facing Jerome Williams, the Dodgers got runners on second and third with nobody out in the third inning.
It was Franco’s first career grand slam, and the first by a Phillies rookie since young Ryan Howard hit one in 2005.
Brown, who has been struggling this year, has three home runs over his last 24 plate appearances. It was a long double off the right-field wall that scored Odubel Herrera from first base.
Each Dodgers starter had no less than one hit, together with Joc Pederson, who snapped an Zero-for-23 streak with a seventh-inning single.
After Howie Kendrick and Adrian Gonzalez smacked a pair of one-out singles, Harang retired Andre Ethier and set his escape plan against a less threatening Puig.
They had the bases loaded and no outs in the fourth and failed to score. Toronto led 4-2 in the fifth before Jose Bautista sandwiched RBI doubles around DionerNavarro’s two-run single. Greinke has been spectacular all season and he’ll mow down the Phillies in this one.
Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler, a first-round selection (24th overall) in the amateur draft in June, will have Tommy John surgery on Wednesday.
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All’s well that ended well for the Phillies, however, as they would eventually end up scoring four runs in the inning, en route to a 6-2 victory. The strangest feat might have come when Greinke had a bat in his hand.
