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- Updated: August 8, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Tommy Joseph’s pinch-hit RBI in the top of the seventh pushed the Phillies to a 6-5 win over the Padres in Sunday’s rubber match at Petco Park. Philadelphia tallied 14 hits for the sixth time this season, with seven coming against San Diego starter Jarred Cosart in the fourth inning.
Jerad Eickhoff only allowed five hits over his six innings, but two of those hits were of the home run variety, accounting for three of the four earned runs the right-hander surrendered. Eickhoff struck out five batters without issuing a walk on 98 pitches.
Cosart threw five innings and allowed five earned runs. Most of the damage came when he allowed five consecutive two-out hits in the fourth inning, but Odubel Herrera also homered against him in the first. The 26-year-old might take solace in the fact that he didn’t walk a batter for the first time this season, but he still surrendered 10 hits.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDFranco to Hernandez to Joseph: Phillies right-hander Edubray Ramos found himself in trouble in the seventh inning when he walked Derek Norris and Jose Rondon to start the inning. But then Jabari Blash hit a grounder to Phillies third baseman Maikel Franco, who stepped on third base to begin a 5-4-3 triple play, the Phillies’ first since Aug. 23, 2009, when Eric Bruntlett had …
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