By: Kevin Durso, editorial assistant 
Final: Cardinals 5, Phillies 4 ❖ Attendance: 40,725
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — It's been a while since the Phillies lost a game like this.
In what was a truly sloppy game from all angles, including replay, the Phillies watched a 4-0 lead disappear, as Jeanmar Gomez suffered his first blown save and loss of the season with the Cardinals scoring two runs in the ninth to take a 5-4 win from the Phillies on Wednesday night at Busch Stadium.
WP: Kevin Siegrist (4-0, 2.45 ERA) ❖ LP: Jeanmar Gomez (2-1, 2.70 ERA) ❖
Hub: Game Summary ❖ Starting Pitchers ❖ At the Plate ❖ Bullpen ❖ What's Next
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| PHI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| STL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
For the second straight night, Ryan Howard opened the scoring with a home run. This time, the Phillies had two runners on base to make it a 3-0 game with one swing. Howard's seventh home run came in the fourth.
Odubel Herrera added a solo shot in the fifth to extend the lead to four.
Things got interesting in the bottom of the fifth. A replay review of five minutes finally "revealed" that Ruben Tejada hit a double to lead off the fifth. A walk and two singles, the second by Aledmys Diaz, brought two runs in. The second run appeared to be out on replay, but the call on the field stood. Stephen Piscotty followed with an RBI single to cut the lead to one.
In the late innings, the Phillies got great defense to keep the margin at one. They escaped the jam in the fifth with a double play and a sharp ground out to short. A great play by Freddy Galvis retired Randal Grichuk to open the eighth and a great catch at the wall in left by Tyler Goeddel robbed Jedd Gyorko of a game-tying home run.
In the ninth, the Phillies were again facing a jam. With one out, a double off the top of the wall by Matt Adams put runners on second and third. An intentional walk to Diaz loaded the bases with one out for Piscotty.
Piscotty grounded to the hole in short, away from Galvis enough to easily plate the tying run, but the Phillies also recorded an out in a rundown between third and home for the second out of the inning. That brought Matt Holliday to the plate with the winning run on third, and he singled to give the Cardinals the win.
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Morgan | 4.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6.00 |
| Mike Leake | 5.0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6.03 |
Cardinals
- Matt Holliday: 2-5, 2B, RBI, .253 AVG
- Stephen Piscotty: 3-5, 2 RBI, .303 AVG
- Aledmys Diaz: 1-4, R, 2 RBI, BB, SO, .381 AVG
Phillies
- Ryan Howard: 1-3, R, HR, 3 RBI, 2 SO, .195 AVG
- Odubel Herrera: 2-4, R, HR, RBI, .319 AVG
- Cesar Hernandez: 2-4, SO, .270 AVG
Cardinals
- Matt Bowman (6th): 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO, 0 HR, 2.25 ERA
- Seung Hwan Oh (8th): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 1.72 ERA
- Kevin Siegrist (9th): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, 0 HR, 2.45 ERA
Phillies
- Colton Murray (5th): 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 0.00 ERA
- Elvis Araujo (6th): 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 1.69 ERA
- Andrew Bailey (7th): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 0.00 ERA
- Hector Neris (8th): 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 1.04 ERA
- Jeanmar Gomez (9th): 0.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 2.70 ERA
- Thursday, May 5, 2016: at St. Louis Cardinals, 1:45 p.m.
- St. Louis, Mo. - Busch Stadium
- RHP Jerad Eickhoff (1-3, 4.15 ERA) vs. LHP Jaime Garcia (1-2, 3.73 ERA)
- TV: CSN; Radio: SportsRadio 94 WIP
