The Philadelphia Phillies were very excited to be facing anyone not named Jacob Misiorowski tonight, and they sure showed it. After being limited to one hit on Friday, the Phillies offense exploded for 17 hits and nine runs against the Brewers staff on Saturday night.
It started in the second inning when Edmundo Sosa went deep off Shane Drohan to give the Phillies a 1-0 lead. They would add two more in the 4th on a pair of hits by Bryson Stott and JT Realmuto to go up 3-0.
The Brewers would answer
back in the bottom half though when Garrett Mitchell crushed his fourth home run of the season to dead center to get two runs right back. The Crew would then tie things up in the 5th when Jackson Chourio hit his first of two home runs on the night.
But then the momentum shifted right back to the Phillies. After giving up a single to Brandon Marsh, Pat Murphy opts to call in Chad Patrick from the bullpen. Patrick, who struggled in his last time out in Las Vegas, struggled again. He allowed five straight hits, including a 3-run-homer to JT Realmuto, five runs came in to score, and the Phillies were all of a sudden up 8-3.
However, that was not quite the knockout blow because the Brewers did battle back. They’ve proven they’re not out of any game, no matter how many runs they may be down. Jackson Chourio supplied a two-run blast in the 7th, his second homer of the game. It’s also his fourth career multi-HR game.
“He’s getting it. Be careful, it’s early but he’s getting it.” Pat Murphy said “Now his ball-strike is getting elite, that’s what happens when you wait for a strike.”
Then in the 8th, after the Phillies added another run on an RBI single from Marsh, the Brewers rallied once again, sending eight men to the plate. It got started with a Garrett Mitchell single, followed by a Sal Frelick walk and a Gary Sanchez infield single. A wild pitch during pinch-hitter Andrew Vaughn’s at-bat brought Mitchell home before Vaughn ended up getting the base on balls.
Christian Yelich brought home another on a sacrifice fly, then Jackson Chourio ripped an RBI single to left. Pinch-runner Luis Rengifo blew through the stop sign from Matt Erickson and ended up just beating the tag at home plate to make it a 9-8 ballgame.
However, Brice Turang struck out and William Contreras popped out to first with two runners on to finish the inning and end the threat.
The Phillies brought out their closer Jhoan Duran for the 9th and he set the Brewers down in order to seal the loss for the Crew.
It’ll be a very strong pitching matchup for the rubber match tomorrow with Kyle Harrison on the mound for the Crew and the Phillies will have their ace Cristopher Sanchez.
“We’ll try to help Miz’s case out a little bit” Pat Murphy said.
