Blanco hit a home run in his first at-bat and finished the day 1 for 2.
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Manager Clint Hurdle declined to guess the severity of the shoulder injury. “He stayed on the aggression throughout the outing”.
The home run was the 10th of the season for Joyce, his most since 2013 despite only having a part-time role. He is slugging a career-high.563 on the season, after posting a career-low.291 mark in 2015 with the Anaheim Angels. I think I’m available if needed. He’s leading the team in home runs at home. In the role he’s playing, that’s pretty impressive, as well. “Obviously, he wasn’t at his best, but he kept us in the game”.
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Gregory Polanco (25) rolls into Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Cesar H … Starling Marte and Jordy Mercer also drove in runs. Marte led with a single and Elias Diaz drove him in with a groundout to record his first career RBI.
“Then you throw in that he played a heckuva center field and it’s just an impressive total package”. After Tony Watson handled the eighth, Mark Melancon pitched a ideal ninth for his 30th save.
Andrew Miller struck out two in a ideal eighth, and Aroldis Chapman threw a season-high 36 pitches over two innings, working around pinch-hitter Grant Green’s leadoff double in the 10th and striking out three. He led the big leagues with 51 saves in 2015, and his 114 saves since the start of 2014 are the most in the majors. Frazier’s homer made a victor of Pirates’ reliever Neftali Feliz, who is 4-0.
Tony Watson got through the top of the eighth, and, in the bottom of the inning the skies opened up. They won four home series in a row.The Phillies lost eight of their past nine games at PNC Park.The game featured a matchup of promising young starters, and both pitched six innings and left with the game tied 4-4, so neither got a decision.Pittsburgh’s Jameson Taillon allowed four runs on eight hits. He was replaced by Maikel Franco. He went 1 for 2 at the plate. Aaron Nola – who himself was hit on Saturday – chose not to, saying he could not afford to put a baserunner on. He passed his concussion evaluations on Saturday and Sunday but was held out of the game as a precaution.
Philadelphia Phillies catcher Cameron Rupp left the game in the third inning Saturday after being struck on the left ear flap of his batting helmet by a pitch from Pittsburgh Pirates rookie right-hander Tyler Glasnow. But perhaps that outing was the anomaly rather than the five bad starts which preceded it. Nola was unable to build off the success he experienced in his last start, failing to get out of the fifth inning during Saturday’s 7-4 loss to the Pirates. He is 3-0 with a 2.20 ERA in six starts since his last loss May 29.
Nola (5-9) only had one ideal inning at PNC Park when he got three fly outs in the third inning.
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However, Herrera improved to 6 for 9 in the series by going 3 for 4 with a triple, two runs scored and two stolen bases.
