Anderson gave up a three-run homer to Franco in the first inning, then was ejected after hitting the Phillies slugger the next time up Saturday night in a 6-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Phillies left fielder Jimmy Paredes secured almost half of the team’s seven RBIs, three, with a RBI single, solo home run and RBI double in the bottom of the second, fourth and fifth innings, receptively. The right-hander now stands 10-8 with a 3.75 ERA and 1.39 WHIP through 22 starts this season. He allowed two runs on five hits and a walk over 58 pitches.
The Rockies have dropped three of their last four on the road and six of seven in all. He hit the facing of the second deck in right field in the third inning, went the other way with one out in the seventh and pulled the ball just inside the foul pole in right with two outs in the ninth.
Phillies starter Jake Thompson accomplished a rare feat when he recorded four strikeouts in one inning, becoming the first Phillies pitcher to do that since Doc White did it against Brooklyn in the fifth inning on July 21, 1902.
The Phillies scored three runs in the fifth to break a 3-all tie.
Weiss and Anderson both insisted after the game that it was not intentional.
“Today was kind of hairy for us because we didn’t want to get to a situation late in the game where it was a tie game and I didn’t have any pitchers left”, Mackanin said. He faced Nolan Arenado – owner of 30 home runs – with the game on the line. The 30-year old outfielder led the Major Leagues in batting average, home runs, hits, runs, slugging, extra-base hits and OPS over the last seven days – otherwise known as nearly all major offensive categories.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Jimmy Paredes singled, doubled, homered and drove in three runs and the Philadelphia Phillies held on to complete a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 7-6 victory Sunday.
Daniel Descalso and Tony Wolters homered for Colorado, which has lost six of seven.
“I think because it was one of the hottest days we played on this year I think that had a lot to do with it”, Mackanin said.
Chatwood said he was forced to pitch only to the arm-side Sunday, meaning he could throw effectively inside to right-handed batters and outside to lefties, but was unable to command pitches outside vs. righties or inside to left-handers. Instead of doing what all infielders are taught, to put the glove down in front of the base so a base runner slides into the glove with the ball, Hernandez received Paredes’ throw in plenty of time and tried to reach out a tag on Blackmon. Second-base umpire Gary Cederstrom called Blackmon out, but replays showed Hernandez never touched Blackmon.
Asked how to describe it, he said, “Like a ninja spiderman”. He was hitless Friday night, stopping his major league-tying 17-game hitting streak to start a career. The announcement was made on Monday on MLB Network.
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“I feel like I haven’t been playing the way I’d like to at all for about two months now, and that (Friday) game was frustrating”, Arenado said. They start a 6-game homestand tonight as the Washington National’s come to Denver.
