The Phillies’ 6-5 loss against the Marlins brought back memories of those May nights on Joe Girardi’s watch when the bullpen and defense cost them game after game, writes ScottLauber.
Too soon? Probably. But say this for the Phillies’ fall-from-ahead 6-5 loss Thursday night against the Miami Marlins: It brought back memories of all those May nights on Joe Girardi’s watch when the bullpen and defense cost them game after game.
Regardless, they wasted a chance for another feel-good comeback against Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, the odds-on favorite to win the Cy Young Award. And they were on the verge of having their lead for the final National League playoff berth shaved to 2 1/2 games over the Milwaukee Brewers, who were close to completing a doubleheader sweep of the San Francisco Giants.
The Phillies thought they had defeated Alcantara for the third time in as many months. They took advantage of two miscues by Miami center fielder JJ Bleday in the fifth inning. Bleday dropped a routine fly ball that would’ve been the third out, then laid out for a ball that turned into a two-run triple for Alec Bohm.
Six nights after one of the shortest starts of his career , Gibson put the Phillies in a 3-0 hole in the third inning and gave up the go-ahead run in the fifth after they rallied to tie the game against Alcantara.
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