Vs PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (11-7) Friday, April 20, 2018 – Citizens Bank Park – 7:05 EDT – Game 19; Home 8 RHP Ivan Nova (2-1, 4.88) Vs RHP Ben Lively (0-1, 5.87)
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PITTSBURGH PIRATES (12-7) vs PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (11-7) Friday, April 20, 2018 – Citizens Bank Park – 7:05 EDT – Game 19; Home 8 RHP Ivan Nova (2-1, 4.88) vs RHP Ben Lively (0-1, 5.87) LAST NIGHT’S ACTION: The Phillies defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-0, at Citizens Bank Park … Starter Jake Arrieta (W, 2-0) tossed 7.0 scoreless innings and allowed a single hit with 10 PHILLIES PHACTS strikeouts and 2 walks … With the wind blowing straight in from left, Rhys Hoskins cranked a 110 Record: 11-7 MPH liner over the wall in left to put the Phils on the board in the 2nd inning … Nick Williams, Home: 6-1 Scott Kingery and J.P. Crawford all reached base safely following Hoskins’ HR and later scored on Road: 5-6 a Cesar Hernandez bases-clearing single to center … Yacksel Rios (1.0 IP) and Victor Arano (1.0 Current Streak: Won 1 IP) made scoreless appearances in relief of Arrieta. Last 5 Games: 3-2 Last 10 Games: 8-2 Series Record: 3-3 CITIZENS BANK SPARK: The Phillies are off to the best start in Citizens Bank Park history … At Sweeps/Swept: 2/1 6-1, the Phillies have eclipsed the previous best start in this ballpark which was 5-2 through the first seven games of the 2011 season … Before this year, the last time the Phillies started 6-1 at PHILLIES VS. PIRATES home was 1993 when they won six of their first seven games at Veterans Stadium … With a win 2018 Record: 1-0 tonight, Philadelphia would start 7-1 at home for the first time since 1981 when they won seven 2018 at Home: 1-0 of their first eight and eight of their first nine at the Vet … Philadelphia has outscored the 2018 at PIT: N/A opposition 51-16 (+35) this season at CBP and their +35 run differential at home is tied with the All-Time Record: 1060-1216-8 Boston Red Sox for the best run differential at home in baseball … Since July 9, 2017, the Phillies All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 28-20 All-Time at PNC Park: 18-35 are 30-18 in South Philly (.625 win %), having outscored their opponents 266-204 in that stretch Current Streak: Won 1 at home (+62) … Philadelphia’s .625 win percentage at home in that span is best among all National League clubs and ranks T-2nd in the majors with the Yankees, trailing only the Indians PHILLIES AT HOME (.756). Games Played: 7 Record: 6-1 (.857) THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE: The Phillies have seen a total of 2,973 pitches over 705 CBP (est. 2004): 614-530 (.537) plate appearances this season … Philadelphia’s 4.22 pitches per plate appearance are the most among all ML clubs thus far (next: STL, 4.12) … Philadelphia has five players who rank in the top AVG/OBP/SLG: .256/.355/.466 25 in pitches per plate appearance in the National League: Cesar Hernandez (2nd, 4.52), Rhys Runs/Runs Per Game: 51/7.29 Home Runs: 12 Hoskins (4th, 4.47), Carlos Santana (12th, 4.25), Scott Kingery (14th, 4.23) and Odubel Stolen Bases: 7 Herrera (T-22nd, 4.10) … Additionally, the Phillies have drawn 88 walks over those 705 plate nd appearances, good for a 12.5% walk rate that is tops in the majors … Their 88 walks rank 2 in ERA: 2.05 the majors to the Nationals (90 BB). Starters W-L: 4-0 Starters ERA: 2.28 RHYS LIGHTNING: Last night, Rhys Hoskins scored his 50th run in his 68th career game, Relievers W-L: 2-1 becoming the fastest Phillie to 50 career runs since Juan Samuel in 1983-84 … Since making his Relievers ERA: 1.59 Saves/Opp: 2/3 major league debut on August 10, 2017, Hoskins has posted a 1.037 OPS over 286 plate appearances … That ranks 4th among all major league players with at least 250 plate appearances PHILLIES AT A GLANCE in that span, trailing only BOS’ J.D. Martinez (1.116), NYY’s Aaron Judge (1.087) and CHI’s Kris Bryant (1.052) … For his career, Hoskins has 53 walks to 64 strikeouts … Since Hoskins’ March: 1-2 Monday: 1-1 debut, only one other player in the majors has as many walks and as few strikeouts: CIN’s Joey April: 10-5 Tuesday: 2-1 Votto (54 BB, 36 SO) … After another home run with two strikes last night, Hoskins is now May: N/A Wednesday: 1-2 June: N/A Thursday: 2-1 slashing .243/.359/.513 in 181 plate appearances in his career with two strikes. July: N/A Friday: 2-0 Aug: N/A Saturday: 2-1 RAGING BULL: Centerfielder Odubel Herrera has reached base safely in 20 straight games Sept: N/A Sunday: 1-1 (since 9/27/17) … This marks the third time in his young career he has had a streak of at least 20 games on base and if he reaches safely tonight, he will tie his career-best streak of 21, vs East: 4-7 Day: 2-3 accomplished three separate times (last: 7/28-9/8/17) … He currently has the fourth-longest vs Cent: 4-0 Night: 9-4 st active on-base streak in baseball behind MIN’s Brian Dozier (30), ARI’s David Peralta (23) and vs West: N/A 1Half: 11-7 vs AL: 3-0 2nd Half: N/A COL’s Charlie Blackmon (23) … Herrera has posted a .382 OBP during the streak and has ten multi-hit games in that stretch. INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 ARANO-NO: Right-hander Victor Arano has begun his season by retiring the first 25 batters he PHI All-Time Challenges: 150 has faced, and dating back to last year has retired 32 consecutive batters … Per Elias, the last Overturned: 83 Phillies pitcher to retire 32 consecutive batters was Rick Wise on 9/18/71 vs CHI Success Rate: 55.3% (also 32), an extra-inning game during which he pitched 12.0 innings … The last major leaguer to do so was Steven Geltz (TB), who retired 32 straight in June 2015 … Arano joins 2018 Challenges: 3 Overturned: 3 Scott Eyre (2009) as the only Phillies pitchers to begin a season with 7 perfect Success Rate: 100.0% appearances since at least 1908 … One more would tie him for the ML record (since 1908) with Scott Aldred, who had 8 perfect outings to begin the 1999 season with TB. STAFF NOTES: Phillies starters have allowed 3 ER or fewer in nine straight starts (longest since 9 straight, 7/26-8/4/17) and 16 of 18 in 2018 … Only the Giants starters (4) have allowed fewer home runs than Philadelphia’s (5) this season, and only the Dodgers (22) and Tigers (24) have walked fewer batters than the Phillies’ starters (25) … Since 4/3, the club’s starting pitchers rank 2nd in the NL and 5th in baseball with a 2.75 ERA (27 ER, 88.1 IP) … Overall, they rank 3rd in MLB with a 2.82 FIP (fielding independent pitching) and 2.8 fWAR (both per Fangraphs) this season. WALK THE PLANK: Since 2012, Philadelphia is 15-28 against the Pirates and have only won consecutive games against them twice (6/25-26/12 & 5/13-14/15) … These interstate foes have certainly fared better against one another in their own park, as the Phils are 28-20 all-time against the Pirates at CBP (.583 win %) and the Pirates are 35-18 against Philadelphia all-time at PNC (.660 win %). PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 5-4 Lead After 6: 7-1 Lead After 7: 8-1 Lead After 8: 8-0 Out-Hit Opp: 6-1 Last AB Decisions: 5-1 Opp. Score First: 6-3 Tied After 6: 4-1 Tied After 7: 4-1 Tied After 8: 3-1 Hits equal: 1-2 Walk-off Decisions: 1-1 Score 4 or more: 10-1 Trail After 6: 0-5 Trail After 7: 0-5 Trail After 8: 0-6 Out-Hit by Opp: 3-4 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 5-0 Score 3 or fewer: 1-6 Hit no HR: 1-5 Starter goes 6.0 IP 1-2 Hit at least 1 HR: 9-2 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 5-5 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Saturday, April 21 vs PIT 4:05 EDT LHP Steven Brault (2-1, 4.74) vs RHP Aaron Nola (1-1, 2.22) NBCSP+ Sunday, April 22 vs PIT 1:35 EDT RHP Trevor Williams (3-0, 1.56) vs RHP Nick Pivetta (1-0, 2.49) NBCSP Monday, April 23 OFF DAY 2018 PHILLIES NOTES TONIGHT’S STARTER PAGE 2 BEN LIVELY RHP #19 LIVELY – 2018 DAY-BY-DAY DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA Height: 6-4 Weight: 240 Age: 26 (born: 3/5/92) 2018: 0-1, 5.87 ERA Career: 4-8, 4.50 ERA 4/3 at NYM L, 2-0 5.2 6 2 2 0 1 5 3.18 4/9 vs CIN ND, W, 6-5 5.2 9 5 5 1 2 7 5.56 LAST START: 4/15 at TB: ND, 4.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 5 SO, HR … Lively vs 4/15 at TB ND, W, 10-4 4.0 7 3 3 1 0 0 5.87 Yarbrough … Philadelphia used two big innings to jump ahead of the Rays after MAR./APRIL 0-1 15.1 22 10 10 2 3 17 5.87 falling behind early, scoring four times in the third inning and five in the eighth … Scott Kingery laced a bases-clearing double and finished the day 2-for-5, 2B, 3 2018 HIGHS CAREER HIGHS RBI, R … Aaron Altherr clubbed his second home run of the season in eighth inning, a three-run blast … The bullpen tossed 5.0 innings of one-run ball in 5.2, 2x, last: 4/9 vs CIN IP 8.0, 9/10/17 at WSH relief.