Phillies
Phillies drop contest to Orioles, lose winning streak on Monday
Published13 Mar 2017
By Josh Liddick, Sports Talk Philly Staff 
Final: Orioles 6, Phillies 4 ❖ Attendance: 7,287
SARASOTA, FL — The Phillies headed to Sarasota to take on the Baltimore Orioles in Spring Training action on Monday. The Phillies, winners of two straight, had just came off of a walk-off victory over the Red Sox over the weekend.
With some players for both teams involved in the World Baseball Classic, both teams had to make do with what they had.
The Phillies got some scoring going early on to take a lead over the O's, but Baltimore had a strong middle of the game to break open the lead and come away with a victory over the Phillies.
The Phils got a runner on base in the ninth inning, but it was too little too late. The Phillies lose their first game in two games.
Besides getting roughed up in the fourth inning, Hellickson pitched a pretty decent game until that point. The surprising part of it all, was that the Phillies only used two other bullpen pitchers in the loss. All in all, it was a pretty good pitching day for the Phillies.
WP: Logan Verrett (1-0, 3.00 ERA) ❖ LP: Jeremy Hellickson (0-1, 6.92 ERA) ❖ SV: Danny Yacabonis (1)
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| BAL |
0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 5 | 1 |
In the top of the first, Howie Kendrick reached base on a fielder's choice to J.J. Hardy. Chris Coghlan scored, giving the Phillies an early 1-0 lead.
In the top of the third inning, Michael Saunders singled on a line drive to left field. Chris Coghlan scored, Saunders moved into second base on the throw. This gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead.
In the bottom of the third, Caleb Joseph hit a towering home run to left field off of Jeremy Hellickson to bring the score to a 2-1 Phillies lead.
In the top of the fourth inning, the scoring continued as Brock Stassi homered for the fourth time this spring. The home run gave the Phils a little padding with a 3-1 lead.
Heading to the bottom of the inning, Mark Trumbo singled to left fielder Howie Kendrick, scoring J.J. Hardy to bring the Orioles within one run again. Phillies led 3-2.
Same inning now, the Orioles took a chance and broke the ballgame wide open with a big three-run shot from Joey Rickard, scoring Trumbo and Trey Mancini. The HR gave the Orioles a 5-3 lead.
Heading to the bottom of the fifth inning, Hyun Soo-Kim singled on a line drive to Aaron Altherr in center field, it scored Aneury Tavarez to extend Baltimore's lead to 6-3.
In the top of the eighth frame, the Phillies got a much needed score from Nick Williams, who launched a solo-home run to left field. Phillies still trailed the Orioles, 6-4.
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Hellickson | 4.0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6.92 |
| Kevin Gausman | 3.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3.60 |
Phillies
- 1 Brock Stassi: 1-3, HR, R, RBI, .407 AVG
- 2 Nick Williams: 1-2, HR, R, RBI, .364 AVG
- 3 Michael Saunders: 1-2, RBI, BB, .259 AVG
Orioles
- 1 Joey Rickard: 1-2, HR, R, 3 RBI, BB, .391 AVG
- 2 Mark Trumbo: 1-2, R, RBI, BB, .238 AVG
- 3 Caleb Joseph: 1-2, HR, R, RBI, .400 AVG
Phillies
- Mark Appel (5th): 2.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 BB, 0 HR, 5.00 ERA
- Colton Murray (8th): 1.2, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR, 0.00 ERA
Orioles
- Logan Verrett (4th): 2.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO, 1 HR, 3.00 ERA
- Brad Brach (6th): 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, 0 HR, 0.00 ERA
- Oliver Drake (7th): 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO, 0 HR, 10.50 ERA
- Jesus Liranzo (8th): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO, 1 HR, 1.50 ERA
- Jimmy Yacabonis (9th): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO, 0 HR, 0.00 ERA
- Tuesday, March 14, 2016: vs. Atlanta Braves, 1:05 p.m.
- Clearwater - Spectrum Field
- RHP Jerad Eickhoff (2016: 11-14, 3.65 ERA) vs. RHP Aaron Blair (2016: 2-7, 7.59 ERA)
- TV: TCN; Radio: MLB.com
