Philadelphia 6, San Francisco 3
When: 1:05 PM ET, Thursday, May 10, 2018
Where: Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
71°
Umpires:
Home -
Mark Carlson, 1B -
Brian Knight, 2B -
Gerry Davis, 3B -
Pat Hoberg
Attendance:
30204
By Field Level Media
Vince Velasquez pitched six solid innings, Carlos Santana homered and the Philadelphia Phillies completed a four-game sweep with a 6-3 victory over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Thursday afternoon.
Velasquez (3-4) allowed five hits and three earned runs while striking out a career-high 12 batters. He threw 101 pitches, 69 for strikes, and also was 2-for-2 at the plate, raising his season average to .462.
Hector Neris picked up the save, his eighth, with a scoreless ninth inning.
Odubel Herrera had three hits and Cesar Hernandez added two hits for the Phillies, who swept the Giants in a series for the first time since 1982.
Giants starter Ty Blach (3-4) was shaky, giving up seven hits and five earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.
Gregor Blanco and Alen Hanson each homered for the Giants.
Pablo Sandoval had a pair of hits for San Francisco.
Blanco led off the game with a home run to right-center field for a 1-0 Giants lead.
Hanson then ripped a two-run homer in the second off Velasquez, scoring Sandoval for a 3-0 advantage.
The Phillies managed just two hits through the first three innings on singles by Hernandez and Velasquez.
Herrera doubled in his second at-bat in the fourth to extend his streak of reaching base safely to 39 straight games.
Rhys Hoskins later singled, scoring Aaron Altherr and slicing the Giants' lead to 3-1.
Santana then came up and blasted a three-run home run to left field, scoring Hoskins and Herrera for a 4-3 Phillies advantage.
Herrera struck again for an RBI single in the fifth, scoring Hernandez for a 5-3 lead.
Giants reliever Will Smith wriggled out of further trouble by striking out Hoskins and forcing Santana into a groundout to end the inning.
Herrera came up with another clutch hit with an RBI single to center in the seventh for a 6-3 lead.
In the ninth, Neris struck out Brandon Belt swinging, got Nick Hundley to ground out to second and struck out Sandoval looking to complete the four-game sweep. Neris threw 10 of his 13 pitches for strikes.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Francisco |
|
Philadelphia |
|
Ty Blach
|
Player |
Vince Velasquez
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
4.1 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
12 |
|
7 |
Hits |
5 |
|
10.38 |
ERA |
4.50 |
Team Stats Summary