‘Pen blows late lead as Phillies fall in 11

PHILADELPHIA — Randal Grichuk does not want to get sent back to the Minors — and he’s playing like it.

Jhonny Peralta led off the 11th inning by hammering a double into left. An out later, Grichuk followed with a two-bagger of his own, driving home Peralta and giving the Cardinals a 4-3 lead that St. Louis top prospect — per MLBPipeline.com — Alex Reyes closed out in the bottom half of the inning on Friday at Citizens Bank Park, earning his first career save.

The double was Grichuk’s third hit of the game. He finished a triple shy of the cycle after homering down the left-field line in the second and adding a single in the fourth. He’s hit safely in all seven games he’s played in since being recalled from Triple-A Memphis, driving in nine in that span.

Phillies closer Jeanmar Gomez allowed a two-run, game-tying blast off the bat of Jedd Gyorko in the ninth inning to blow his fourth save of the year and erase a stellar outing from Adam Morgan, who outdueled Adam Wainwright, tossing six innings of one-run ball.

Odubel Herrera and Freddy Galvis led off the sixth with back-to-back blasts to open up a 3-1 Phillies lead off Wainwright. The dingers followed Wainwright’s complaint about the mound condition after he slipped delivering a pitch to Herrera. He wasn’t the same after the grounds crew manicured the mound. After the homers, Wainwright …

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