Padres Edge Phillies With Tenth Inning Run
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The Phillies and the San Diego Padres traded early inning rallies on Sunday with Padres starter Kevin Correia giving up 5 runs in 1 2/3 innings of work. But Joe Blanton couldn’t hold a 5-3 lead while giving up 2 homers amongst the Padres 11 hits off of him in five innings of work. With the score tied at 5-5 in the tenth inning with 2 outs and runners at 1st and 3rd bases, Padres pinchhitter Oscar Salazar singled in the winning run off of Phils reliever Danys Baez. The Phils didn’t make it easy for Padres closer Heath Bell, but a great relay from centerfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. to 3rd base nailed 3rd baseman Placido Polanco attempting to advance from 1st to 3rd on 2nd baseman Chase Utley’s single. With 2 outs, Bell struck out rightfielder Jayson Werth as the Padres edged the Phillies by a 6-5 score with a tenth inning run.
Despite the loss, the Phils renained 2 games behind the NL East division leading Atlanta Braves who were edged by the L.A. Dodgers in eleven innings. The 3rd place Mets crept to within a game of 2nd place by beating the Marlins, now 5 1/2 back of 1st place Atlanta. Last place Washington also lost an extra inning game to Cincinnati and are 6 1/2 games back.
The Phils lit into starter Correia with a run in the first and 3 more runs in the second on 4 hits and 3 walks. But despite collecting 7 more hits and 4 more walks off of 4 Padres relievers, and benefiting from 2 Padres errors, the Phils couldn’t come through with any further run production.
Adrian Gonzalez homered and drove in three runs, Chase Headley had four hits and San Diego beat the Phillies 6-5 Sunday on pinch-hitter Oscar Salazar’s two-out infield single in the 10th.
Headley opened the 10th with a single off Danys Baez (2-2) and advanced to third on a sacrifice and a grounder to second. After an intentional walk to Gwynn, Salazar singled deep into the shortstop hole to put the Padres ahead 6-5.
A run in the 10th inning nearly wasn’t enough for the San Diego Padres.
Heath Bell got through a shaky 10th inning for his 15th save in 18 chances. Placido Polanco walked with one out and tried to go to third on Chase Utley’s soft single, but was thrown out by Gwynn.
“One out, you have to try,” Polanco said. “Base hit, I’ve got to make it to third somehow. The ball wasn’t hit hard. He had to come and he had to do what he did. It was perfect. If you give him another 10 shots, I don’t know how many times he’s going to do it like that.”
Playing deep in a no-doubles alignment, Gwynn charged in and made an off-balance, one-hop throw to Headley, who tagged Polanco.
[Ryan] Howard singled to put runners at the corners, but Jayson Werth struck out on a 97 mph fastball to end the game.
Nick Hundley also homered for the Padres, who scored three times in the first against Joe Blanton and finished with 16 hits. But the Phillies came right back behind Ryan Howard’s three RBIs to take a 5-3 lead and chase starter Kevin Correia in the second.
San Diego scored three first-inning runs off Blanton, with two coming on Gonzalez’s 11th homer. A two-out single by Matt Stairs drove in Headley for the third run.
Philadelphia scored once in the bottom half, then took advantage of San Diego’s poor defense and Correia’s control lapses to take the lead in a four-run second.
Raul Ibanez began the inning with a walk ahead of Brian Schneider’s fly to center. Juan Castro chopped a ball to shortstop Jerry Hairston Jr., who stepped on second but threw low to first, preventing an inning-ending double play.
Blanton singled, Shane Victorino walked to load the bases and Polanco tied the game with a two-run single. A walk to Utley loaded the bases again for Howard, who lined a shot to a perfectly positioned Lance Zawadzki in short right, but the ball clanged off the second baseman’s glove and was ruled a hit, allowing two more runs to score.
San Diego scored a run in the fourth on Gonzalez’s two-out single and tied it at 5 on Hundley’s homer leading off the fifth. Blanton allowed 11 hits and five runs in five innings. His ERA is 6.07.
Mike Adams (1-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win… The Phillies left 15 runners on base.
To view the scores of all of Sunday’s MLB games, click here.
The Phils hope to walk away with a 3 og 4 game series win in Monday’s final. The game is a battle of lefthanders as Cole Hamels is opposed by Wade LeBlanc for the Padres. Next into Citizen’s Bank Park are the Florida Marlins for 3 games to complete the Phillies 7 game homestand.
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