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PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (1-1) vs. CINCINNATI REDS (1-1) Thursday, April 6, 2017 – Great American Ball Park – 12:35 p.m. EDT – Game 3; Road 3 RHP Clay Buchholz (NR) vs. RHP Rookie Davis (NR) LAST NIGHT’S ACTION: The Phillies lost to the Cincinnati Reds, 2-0, at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati … Delayed by 50 minutes due to rain at the start, the game did not start until 8:00 EDT yet PHILLIES PHACTS was completed in a brisk 2 hours and 25 minutes … Starter Jerad Eickhoff (L, 0-1) pitched beautifully Record: 1-1 (.500) but was a tough-luck loser due to a lack of run support … He went 6.2 innings and allowed 2 runs on 5 Home: N/A hits with 6 strikeouts and only 1 walk … Offensively, the Phils struggled to get anything going as they Road: 1-1 went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. Current Streak: Lost 1 Last 5 Games: 1-1 Last 10 Games: 1-1 A TRADITION, UNLIKE ANY OTHER: Following today’s game, the Phillies will fly home and go to Series Record: 0-0-0 sleep on the eve of their 14th season at Citizens Bank Park … Vince Velasquez, who will get the nod for Sweeps/Swept: N/A the Phils, will be hard-pressed to top his 2016 debut at CBP when he twirled a 16 strikeout, 3-hit, complete game shutout against the Padres on April 14 of last season … As for the festivities prior to the PHILLIES VS. REDS game, Kane Kalas, son of the late, great Harry Kalas, will sing the National Anthem from his father’s 2017 Record: 1-1 statue, just behind the leftfield foul pole … Sylvia Green, wife of the late Dallas Green, will toss the 2017 at Home: N/A ceremonial first pitch as will Fred Alward, a 16-year old patient at Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for 2017 at CIN: 1-1 Children. All-Time Record: 949-1127-10 All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 30-15 MASTERFUL: Through two games, the Phillies starting rotation has kept their club in each contest thus All-Time at GABP: 24-25 far … In 11.2 innings on the mound they have posted a 2.31 ERA (3 ER, 11.2 IP) with 7 strikeouts to Current Streak: Lost 1 just 2 walks … Dating back to last season, over the last 14 starts which include everyone in the current rotation who has pitched for the Phils (Hellickson, Eickhoff, Velasquez, 9/3/16-current), the group has PHILLIES ON THE ROAD posted a 2.70 ERA (25 ER, 83.1 IP). Games Played: 2 Record: 1-1 (.500) GAME THREE OBSERVATIONS: A few notes through the first two games of the 2017 season … A win today would clinch Philadelphia their first opening series victory since the 2011 season when they took AVG/OBP/SLG: .212/.278/.394 two of three games from the Houston Astros at Citizens Bank Park … The Phils haven’t won an opening Runs/Runs Per Game: 4/2.00 Home Runs: 2 road series since 2010, when they took two of three games from the Nationals, 4/5-8 … Today’s starter, Stolen Bases: 1 Clay Buchholz, will take the mound riding a 2.80 ERA (17 ER, 54.2 IP) over his last 16 games (8 GS), since 7/27/16 ERA: 2.65 Starters W-L: 1-1 ON THIS DATE IN PHILLIES HISTORY: April 6, 1974 … Mike Schmidt hits a walk-off homer on Starters ERA: 2.31 opening day off Tug McGraw in a 5-4 win over the New York Mets at Veterans Stadium … It stands as Relievers W-L: 0-0 the only walk-off homer on Opening Day in Phillies history. Relievers ERA: 3.38 Saves/Opp: 1/1 SPRING RECAP: Philadelphia finished spring training with a 14-17-5 record … As a team, they ranked 3rd-best among all National League teams in walks (128) and 7th in OBP (.337) … The Phils averaged PHILLIES AT A GLANCE 3.56 walks per game this spring, their highest per-game total since online data became available in 2006 April: 1-1 Monday: 1-0 … On the mound, the club ranked 5th-best among all National League teams in WHIP (1.33) and May: 0-0 Tuesday: 0-0 opponent’s AVG (.259) … On the bases, Philadelphia finished the spring 21-for-24 in stolen base attempts June: 0-0 Wednesday: 0-1 nd July: 0-0 Thursday: 0-0 (87.5%), the 2 -highest stolen base percentage among all ML teams during the spring (best: BAL, 31- Aug: 0-0 Friday: 0-0 35, 88.6%). Sept: 0-0 Saturday: 0-0 Oct: 0-0 Sunday: 0-0 HELLO, MY NAME IS: For the third consecutive season, 13 or more players on the Phillies Opening Day roster were not on the initial 25-man roster the year before … Only INF Andres Blanco, RHP Jerad vs East: 0-0 Day: 1-0 Eickhoff, 3B Maikel Franco, SS Freddy Galvis, RHP Jeanmar Gomez, RHP Jeremy Hellickson, 2B Cesar vs Cent: 1-1 Night: 0-1 st Hernandez, CF Odubel Herrera, RHP Hector Neris, RHP Aaron Nola, C Cameron Rupp and RHP Vince vs West: 0-0 1Half: 1-1 vs AL: 0-0 2nd Half: 0-0 Velasquez were on the opening roster in 2016 (6 P, 1 C, 4 INF, 1 OF) … Seven players have made their first career Opening Day roster (OF Aaron Altherr, 1B Tommy Joseph, C Andrew Knapp, LHP Adam Morgan, RHP Edubray Ramos, LHP Joely Rodriguez & INF Brock Stassi ), while Knapp is the only player INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 among the group yet to make his Major League debut. PHI All-Time Challenges: 117 THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: Philadelphia finished the 2016 season with the second-lowest Overturned: 63 Success Rate: 53.8% average player age among all Major League clubs (26.9 years old) … Only the Arizona Diamondbacks were younger (26.5) … This spring, 30 of the 62 players who reported to Phillies camp were 25 or 2017 Challenges: 1 younger (48%), including 24 players on the 40-man roster (60%) … The average age of the Opening Overturned: 1 Day 25-man roster is 28.08 years old. Success Rate: 100.0% Last Challenge: 4/5 at WSH A GOOD CROP ON THE FARM: The 2016 season was a very successful one for the Phillies player Situation: T9, 2 outs, runner on 1B development system … Every one of the Phillies domestic minor league affiliates finished above .500 for Result: OVERTURNED: After viewing all the first time since 1953 (9 teams over .500 in 1953) … Considering only domestic minor league teams, relevant angles, the Replay Official the Phillies combined .595 minor league winning percentage (412-280) ranked first among all definitively determined that the runner organizations … Including foreign teams, their .581 winning percentage (482-348) ranked second in touched the base prior to the fielder applying the tag, the runner is safe. baseball only to Seattle (.590, 451-314) … Philadelphia had four minor league affiliates qualify for the playoffs, the most in one year since MiLB’s records began tracking all teams’ postseason appearances in 2005 … The Phillies six domestic minor league teams combined to post a 3.34 ERA and a .262 team batting average in the regular season … Every team had an ERA of 3.85 or lower, and four of the six hit better than .260 … Reading OF Dylan Cozens (40 HR) and 1B Rhys Hoskins (38 HR) were the top two home run hitters in all of minor league baseball. PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 1-0 Lead After 6: 1-0 Lead After 7: 1-0 Lead After 8: 1-0 Out-Hit Opp: 1-0 Last AB Decisions: 0-0 Opp. Score First: 0-1 Tied After 6: 0-0 Tied After 7: 0-0 Tied After 8: 0-0 Hits equal: 0-0 Walk-off Decisions: 0-0 Score 4 or more: 1-0 Trail After 6: 0-1 Trail After 7: 0-1 Trail After 8: 0-1 Out-Hit by Opp: 0-1 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 0-1 Score 3 or less: 0-1 Hit no HR: 0-1 Starter goes 6.0 IP 0-0 Hit at least 1 HR: 1-0 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 1-0 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Friday, April 7 3:05 EDT RHP Max Scherzer (NR) vs RHP Vince Velasquez (NR) NBC10 Saturday, April 8 7:05 EDT TBA vs RHP Aaron Nola (NR) NBC 10 Sunday, April 9 1:35 EDT RHP Stephen Strasburg (1-0, 2.57) vs RHP Jeremy Hellickson (1-0, 1.80) CSN 2017 PHILLIES NOTES TODAY’S STARTER PAGE 2 MMww CLAY BUCHHOLZ RHP #21 BUCHHOLZ – 2016 DAY-BY-DAY DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA Height: 6-3 Weight: 190 Age: 32 (born: 8/14/84) 4/6 at CLE ND, L, 7-6 4.0 6 5 5 1 3 4 11.25 2016: 8-10, 4.78 ERA Career: 81-61, 3.96 ERA 4/12 vs BAL L, 9-5 5.0 5 5 5 2 3 1 10.00 4/18 vs TOR ND, L, 4-3 6.2 6 0 0 0 2 2 5.74 SPRING TRAINING RECAP: 1-2, 6.65 ERA (16 ER, 21.2 IP), 26 H, 10 BB, 16 4/23 at HOU L, 8-3 5.2 6 5 5 1 1 6 6.33 SO in 6 starts 4/28 vs ATL L, 5-3 6.1 8 5 5 0 4 2 6.51 APRIL 0-3 27.2 31 20 20 4 13 19 6.51 TODAY’S START: 5/4 at CWS W, 5-2 7.0 3 2 2 1 2 6 5.71 The Buch Stops Here: Buchholz has posted a 2.80 ERA (17 ER, 54.2 5/9 vs OAK W, 14-7 5.0 6 4 4 1 2 2 5.90 IP) in his last 16 games (8 GS) since 7/27/16 … In that span, his ERA 5/14 vs HOU ND, W, 6-5 6.0 7 5 5 2 3 5 6.11 ranks 5th among AL pitchers with at least 50.0 IP, trailing only Justin 5/20 vs CLE L, 4-2 6.0 5 4 3 1 4 3 5.92 Verlander, Ervin Santana, Ian Kennedy and Rick Porcello … He went 5-1 5/26 vs COL L, 8-2 5.0 7 6 6 3 0 2 6.35 and held opponents to a .212 AVG in those 16 games #5/29 at TOR W, 5-3 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6.24 MAY 3-2 30.0 29 21 20 8 11 19 6.00 Road Warrior: Is 4-0 with a 2.27 ERA (10 ER, 39.2 IP) in his last 9 road #6/1 at BAL ND, L, 5-4 3.1 3 4 3 0 4 1 6.34 games (5 GS) since 7/31/16 … He has surrendered only 5 XBH to 157 #6/5 vs TOR ND, L, 5-4 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6.24 batters faced (2 2B, 3 HR) in that stretch (.277 OPP SLG%) #6/11 at MIN ND, W, 15-4 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6.14 Lost Sox: Today will be the first of 189 career starts that Buchholz has #6/16 vs BAL ND, L, 5-1 3.0 2 0 0 0 0 4 5.86 not toed the rubber for the Boston Red Sox … Since 2007, the year 6/21 vs CWS L, 3-1 5.0 4 3 3 2 1 5 5.83 Buchholz debuted, only 8 other ML pitchers made as many consecutive 6/26 at TEX L, 6-2 5.1 7 5 4 1 5 3 5.90 starts with one team (Elias Sports Bureau) JUNE 0-3 18.2 16 12 10 3 12 14 4.82 7/2 vs LAA L, 21-2 4.1 7 6 3 2 1 1 5.91 MOST CONSECUTIVE GS WITH 1 TEAM SINCE 2007