Phillies squander early lead, fall late to Red Sox

Theo DeRosa

June 12 2017

By Theo DeRosa, Sports Talk Philly staff

Final: Red Sox 6, Phillies 5 (11)

BOSTON —Jerad Eickhoff will have to keep waiting for his first win of 2017.

The right-hander, 0-7 on the year, had a quality start at Fenway Park, leaving with a 5-4 lead after six innings and three earned runs, but Joaquín Benoit served up a long home run to Hanley Ramírez to tie the game in the eighth.

Three innings later, Dustin Pedroia singled through the right side and the Red Sox walked it off, handing the Phillies their sixth straight loss.

WP: Matt Barnes (5-2, 3.38) ❖ LP: Casey Fien (0-1, 9.58)

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Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
PHI	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	14	2
BOS	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	15	2

The Phillies started the game off with a string of two-out hits against 2016 American League Cy Young winner Rick Porcello. Tommy Joseph drove in Daniel Nava and Howie Kendrick with a single up the middle, Andrés Blanco doubled home Joseph and Maikel Franco's single to right drove Blanco in.

Jerad Eickhoff's struggles this year continued as the Red Sox climbed back into the game. Eickhoff allowed a solo shot to Andrew Benintendi in the second. Mookie Betts doubled and scored on a groundout in the third, then Benintendi singled in Mitch Moreland from second. In the fourth, Betts doubled (his third double of a 4-4 night at the plate) to score Jackie Bradley Jr. from second and tie the game.

Howie Kendrick continued his excellent 2017 with an RBI single in the fifth as Aaron Altherr came around to score the go-ahead run.

In the seventh, Pat Neshek took over for Eickhoff, who ended the night with a line of seven hits, three earned runs, two walks and six strikeouts. Neshek allowed a leadoff single to Betts, but got Dustin Pedroia to pop out and Xander Bogaerts to ground into a double play. Joaquín Benoit allowed the tying home run, a 452-foot blast, to Hanley Ramírez with two out in the eighth, though.

A trio of Sox relievers, Joe Kelly, Robby Scott and Craig Kimbrel, kept the Phillies scoreless in the seventh, eighth, and ninth, respectively. Matt Barnes put two runners in scoring position in the tenth, but stranded them with a strikeout of Freddy Galvis.

Casey Fien allowed a long single to Pedroia in the ninth, but emerged unscathed. He ran into trouble in the tenth, his second inning of work, putting the first two runners he faced on base. With one out, Nava snagged a foul fly from Bradley against the left-field wall and fired to second to double off Benintendi and send the game to the 11th inning.

After another scoreless top half, as Barnes kept the Phils off the board again, the Red Sox finally got through. Pablo Sandoval lined a base hit and was pulled for Deven Marrero, who was bunted over to second. Betts was intentionally walked and Pedroia singled to right; Marrero just beat the throw home from Altherr to end the ballgame and give the Phillies a sixth consecutive loss.

Tuesday night's 7:10 matchup between Ben Lively and David Price is the Phillies' last game this year at Fenway Park. The Red Sox come to Philadelphia on Wednesday and Thursday to complete the home-and-home series.

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