The Phillies carried their run of strong starting pitching into Tuesday's series opener with the Braves but they didn't take enough advantage of their opportunities against Spencer Strider in a 4-2 loss. CSeidmanNBCS of NBCSPhilly has the recap:
The Phils tallied eight hits off of Strider in the first five innings. Only once in his 35 career big-league starts has Strider allowed more hits. But they left two runners on in the first inning, stranded Brandon Marsh after a leadoff double in the third and quickly had a potential fourth-inning rally derailed when Bryson Stott hit into an unconventional 6-4-5 double play. Strider struck out nine in his six innings.
"Anytime you can put pressure on a guy, especially somebody that's had our number a little bit, I thought we had some opportunities to get runs in there and it just didn't happen for us," Harper said. J.T. Realmuto, coming off of a tremendous road trip, singled twice but ran the Phillies out of a potential rally in the bottom of the eighth. He singled to left-center and it should have put runners on the corners with two outs to bring the tying run to the plate, but Realmuto inexplicably tried to stretch it into a double — against a Gold Glove-caliber centerfielder in Michael Harris II, no less — and was thrown out.
The rotation continues to pitch well with a 1.72 ERA over the last 16 games. Suarez has a 1.38 ERA over his last five starts and 30 of his last 35 innings have been scoreless. It's not as if he's accomplished this against bottom-tier offenses, either. Three of those five games were against the Braves, Dodgers and Diamondbacks, who rank 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the National League in runs per game.
The Phillies look to even the series Wednesday night when Aaron Nola opposes rookie AJ Smith-Shawver, who is making his third career start after beginning the season in Single A.
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