Phillies Edge Padres on Bases Loaded Walk
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Phillies ace Roy Halladay was far from perfect on Friday, but was plenty good enough to work out of touchy situations over his seven inning outing. Then lefthanded reliever J.C. Romero was able to work out of a 1 out eighth inning bases-loaded spot by coaxing a ground double-play ball to 3rd base and closer Brad Lidge went clean on the Padres to earn his 2nd save and 1st since his DL stint. The Phils offense continued in a comatose state, although centerfielder Shane Victorino followed Halladay’s 1 out 3rd inning single with a homer to put the Phils up 2-1. But after the Padres tied the game in the fifth, it took a walk to rightfielder Jayson Werth forcing in the lead run in the home fifth as the Phillies edged the Padres by a 3-2 score on a bases loaded walk.
With the win, the Phils got to 2 games back of NL East division leading Atlanta after the Braves and L.A. Dodgers split their Thursday and Friday games. The Mets are 4 games back in 3rd place, Florida is 4 1/2 games back and Washington sits in 5th place.
Halladay (8-3) allowed 10 hits and walked one, but held San Diego to two runs in his first game since his gem at Florida last Saturday.
“He bared down when he had to,” Padres manager Bud Black said. “He knows how to make pitches. We just couldn’t break through.”
Tony Gwynn Jr. hit an RBI single in the second and [Adrian] Gonzalez added a sacrifice fly in the fifth for NL West-leading San Diego, which lost right fielder Will Venable in the fifth inning when he jammed his neck sliding into third. Venable, who is day to day, was replaced by Chris Denorfia.
…Victorino… scored the go-ahead run on Jayson Werth’s two-out, bases-loaded walk against Mat Latos in the fifth.
Halladay singled with one out in the third and scored on Victorino’s homer to right field.
Latos (5-4) issued a season-high four walks in five innings, yielding three runs and four hits. The righty entered with a 1.29 ERA in his previous five outings.
“I feel really good right now,” said Lidge, who made his second appearance since his second stint on the disabled list. “That was the situation I was hoping to have. It was nice to get a save against some real good hitters. We need to win the close games, too.”
The Phillies managed only five hits and struck out 11 times.
Phils’ pitchers struck out 9 Padres with Halladay striking out 7, including the side in the fourth inning. Halladay eased out of tight spots in the second, third and sixth innings.
Reliever Jose Contreras hit the first batter he faced in the eighth inning, retired the next hitter on a pop-up before walking Gwynn Jr. Then Romero came on to issue a walk to load the bases before Denorfia grounded into doubleplay — third to first to retire the side. Lidge closed out the Padres with a 10 pitch, 2 strikeout ninth to end it.
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Ancient lefthander Jame Moyer, who has suffered 2 undeserved losses in his last 3 starts due to missing offense, goes in game 2 opposed by Jon Garland.
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