17: Phillies (Eflin) @ Dodgers (McCarthy)

DurhamBull 2017-04-30 03:43:11 UTC #7

Dodgers with just 4 hits on the night.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:05:37 UTC #8

Benoit in pitching the 8th. Gets first two batters out and then walks the next. A bloop single to right puts runners first and second, but he quickly K's the next hitter to end the inning.

Still 5-2 Phillits going to the 9th.

zambonir 2017-04-30 04:06:17 UTC #9

Seems like it was a deliberately lefty-heavy line-up (with Stassi and the SH Knapp also in), and sometimes "the book" makes a manager look smart. Tomorrow the RH batters will return.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:11:10 UTC #10

Doesn't look like it was mentioned above. Stassi had a 3 run home run in the 4th to put the Phillies into the lead.

After the Knapp homer in the 8th, Phils had two singles and a successful sac bunt to put runners second and third, one out. Herrera went down swinging on full count. Looked high to me but only saw it once on my phone, so I could be wrong. Can't afford to be called out but ..... Anyway, they didn't score more that inning. Hope 3 run lead will be okay tonight.

BostonRoss 2017-04-30 04:13:01 UTC #11

GOing to the ninth, the Phillies are outhitting the Dodgers 13-5. Also have three walks to the Dodgers' one. But only a three run lead as they've left 11 on base (2 for 15 with RISP).

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:19:37 UTC #12

Another strong start from Eflin. 7 innings, 4 hits, 0 walks, 4 Ks. Two runs on solo home runs in the first and seventh. Well done.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:21:18 UTC #13

Back to back home runs off Neris and its 5-4 with no outs in the ninth.

BostonRoss 2017-04-30 04:21:35 UTC #14

Yikes. Gomez could have done this.

tom81 2017-04-30 04:21:36 UTC #15

Back to back hrs for the Dodgers

DurhamBull 2017-04-30 04:21:43 UTC #16

Including a second from Bellinger.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:22:38 UTC #17

Puig and Bellinger Second of the night and second of his career.

tom81 2017-04-30 04:22:39 UTC #18

Turner gets the third. Still no outs.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:23:12 UTC #19

I guess Mac can't see what is happening here. Neris doesn't have it tonight.

BostonRoss 2017-04-30 04:23:54 UTC #20

When they're slugging 4.000 against you, you don't have it.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:24:43 UTC #21

What a shame for Eflin tonight.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:28:56 UTC #22

One out single knocks Neris out of the game. Faced 5, 4 hits, 3 home runs, blown save. On the hook loss if they lose it here.

Not his night.

Second night in LA that Phillies lose a lead. All those runners left on base looming large now.

BostonRoss 2017-04-30 04:34:23 UTC #23

There may be something to the idea that a closer needs to have a certain mentality. There have been some good relievers who did not make good closers when given the chance.

HopeSpringsEternal 2017-04-30 04:37:27 UTC #24

Joely comes in to face 3 lefties - Toles flies out, Barnes singles, and A-Gone grounds to Franco who boots it. Game over.

LoneStarPhan 2017-04-30 04:40:39 UTC #25

Winning run scores from second on ball not out of the infield.

Clearly, this team has some work to do. A crushing defeat tonight.

Evidently they gave AGon a hit on the bobbled infield grounder that gets the run in to win. Bush league home town scoring.

zambonir 2017-04-30 05:57:47 UTC #26

Well, the managing of the offensive line-up worked.

That's unfortunate but lots to like anyway (the hits, the starting pitcher). Competitive fantasies aside, if you believe in the closer, the Phillies don't need one right now; they need to develop one. If there really is something to the role/mentality, Neris is going to learn that, just like Giles and Madson before him. Or he won't. I'm happy with the flexible/committee model myself, but if he's your closer, you send him back out, like so many before him. Gomez was different because he obviously didn't have the stuff even when he was getting better results.