Revere was limping briefly after banging his knees against the padded wall, but he remained in the game.īefore the game, the Phillies placed outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. Revere made the defensive play of the game in the fourth, catching a long drive by Freeman before crashing into the center-field wall. Simmons hit into a double play to end the inning. The Braves loaded the bases with no outs in the seventh but couldn't score. The Phillies need to keep winning because, as Thomson said, making the playoffs is important and every last win will mean something.Papelbon blew his second save in 17 chances.īraves right-hander Julio Teheran allowed only one run on four hits and no walks in eight innings. They have beaten the Nationals in nine of 11 meetings this season. The Phillies are doing just what a good team needs to do against a down-and-out club.
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The Nationals have sold off talent two years in a row and are a shell of the team that won the World Series in 2019. Nick Castellanos has five RBIs in the last four games. Realmuto has tripled and homered two nights in a row. Rhys Hoskins has homered in the first inning three nights in a row. Ranger Suarez and the offense delivered Saturday night. Gibson and the offense dominated Friday night. The Phils won a rain-shortened game Thursday night. The bullpen hasn't been tested in this series against Washington. So it gives you an opportunity on both sides, when you have a lead or are down, to win the game." They're going to hold it even if you get down. "I think when you have a bullpen that's performing the way ours is, you always feel like you are either going to win the game or get back in the game. We've got good players, they grind every day. We're winning games at the end of games that in the past we've lost. But our bullpen has been really good and it has been really good for a while now. We had a lot of letdowns because of our bullpen. "That was one of the things that we didn't have in the past. "We've got a good club and our bullpen has really performed," Thomson said. It's not an exaggeration to say the bullpen kept the Phillies from making the postseason the last two seasons. It was historically bad, first with a 7.06 ERA and then with 34 blown saves, in 20. We feel like we're moving in the right direction." We're going to get an MVP (Bryce Harper) back soon and that's going to help us a lot. We're playing better baseball, and we've been saying it all along - we feel like our best baseball is ahead of us. "We have a couple bad games and lose two or three where in the past we'd go on six- or seven-game losing streaks. "We're playing better baseball for longer stretches," J.T.
They lost 11 of their next 15 and finished out of the money for a 10th straight season.
Their hold on that spot did not last long. The Phils control the third and final NL wild-card spot and the second one is within reach.Ī year ago at this time, the Phillies were winning eight in a row and taking over first place in the NL East. Simply making the postseason would be special. No one is predicting World Series for this team, but it does feel like something rather special is beginning to percolate here. Moments later, Matt Vierling clubbed a three-run homer in the bottom of the first inning. After the ceremony, Reed pointed out that both of the franchise's World Series title teams had Notre Dame grads on their roster: himself in 1980 and Brad Lidge in 2008. The Phils put six runs on the board against Washington starter Patrick Corbin and he didn't make it out of the first inning.īefore the game, the Phillies honored outfielder Bake McBride and relief pitcher Ron Reed with spots on the team's Wall of Fame. On Saturday night, they came out with two more home runs in the first inning and finished the night with three. The Phils hit five home runs - three in the first inning - and got eight innings of two-hit, one-run ball from Kyle Gibson in Friday night's 7-2 win. The Phils have beaten Washington three straight nights and the offense and starting pitching have been outstanding the last two.
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