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Roberts shows faith in Dayton in tough-luck loss
- Updated: August 19, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — It will go down as Grant Dayton’s first Major League loss, but doesn’t feel like it to him.
Manager Dave Roberts left Dayton in the game to start the seventh Thursday after he struck out Odubel Herrera to end the sixth. It set up a rematch of last Wednesday’s fateful showdown between Dayton and Freddy Galvis. In their first matchup, Galvis hit a seventh-inning, three-run homer to give the Phillies the lead. It only acted as foreshadowing for Thursday.
Galvis singled to lead off the seventh, and Roberts stuck with Dayton against Maikel Franco, who sent a fastball over the center-field wall to give the Phillies their first and only lead of the game for a 5-4 win.
Scott Kazmir shouldered the loss in last week’s game, having put the go-ahead runners on base before Dayton allowed the homer that brought them home. But Dayton got the credit he thought he deserved on Thursday.
“It sure felt like I lost the last one,” Dayton said. “You don’t …
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