PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (32-27) Vs CHICAGO CUBS
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PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (32-27) vs CHICAGO CUBS (34-24) Thursday, June 7, 2018 – Wrigley Field – 2:20 EDT – Game 60; Road 32 RHP Nick Pivetta (4-4, 3.48) vs RHP Tyler Chatwood (3-4, 4.02) LAST NIGHT’S ACTION: The Phillies lost a heartbreaker, 7-5, at venerable Wrigley Field … Starter Aaron Nola (ND) went 6.0 innings and allowed 3 runs on only 4 hits with 4 walks (1 PHILLIES PHACTS intentional) and 6 strikeouts … The Phils trailed 3-0 as Cubs starter Jose Quintana was lifted in Record: 32-27 place of reliever Steve Cishek to face Aaron Altherr in the 6th inning … Altherr crushed a 3-run Home: 19-9 home run on the first pitch he saw to tie the game at 3-3 … The clubs would trade zeroes until Road: 13-18 the 9th when Dylan Cozens belted his first career home run to left field to give the Phils a 7-5 lead Current Streak: Lost 1 … Jason Heyward would follow in the bottom of the 9th with a walk-off grand slam. Last 5 Games: 1-4 Last 10 Games: 3-7 I’M COMING HOME: Today marks the conclusion of a 10-game, 11-day road trip that began at Series Record: 7-9-3 Sweeps/Swept: 5/2 Dodger Stadium for four games (2-2, 5/28-31), then continued with a three-game set against the Giants in San Francisco (0-3, 6/1-3), before concluding with this three-game series against the PHILLIES VS. CUBS Cubs at Wrigley (1-1, 6/5-7) … Following this trip, the Phillies will finally head home where they 2018 Record: 1-1 will play 15 of their final 21 games of the month of June at Citizens Bank Park … Philadelphia’s six 2018 at Home: N/A remaining road games this month will come over parts of two brief three-game series, June 15-17 2018 at CHI: 1-1 at MIL and June 22-24 at WSH … The Phillies, at 19-9 (.679) at CBP this season, own the best All-Time Record: 1109-1229 home record in the National League, third-best in the majors, behind only the Red Sox (22-8, All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 26-18 .733) and Yankees (22-9, .710). All-Time at Wrigley Field: 394-485 Current Streak: Lost 1 YES SER!: Prior to allowing two runs in his second inning of work last night, Seranthony PHILLIES ON ROAD Dominguez extended his streak of consecutive scoreless innings to begin his career to 15.2 with a perfect 8th … Per Elias, it was the longest scoreless streak by a Phillies’ pitcher to Games Played: 31 begin a career since Marty Bystrom began his with 20.0 scoreless innings in 1980 … Record: 13-18 (.419) During the streak, he faced 49 batters, allowed 3 baserunners (2 H, HB) and struck out 16 … AVG/OBP/SLG: .218/.296/.351 Additionally, Dominguez drew a walk in his first career plate appearance in the top of the ninth, Runs/Runs Per Game: 113/3.65 recording his first walk at the plate before walking his first batter of his career on the mound. Home Runs: 27 Stolen Bases: 13 MY KIND OF TOWN: Since 2007, the Phillies are 20-18 (.526 win %) in 38 games at Wrigley Field … That is the highest win percentage for any visiting Major League team with at least 10 ERA: 4.15 games played on the North Side … In fact, the Phillies are one of only four visiting teams with a Starters W-L: 8-12 record of .500 or better at Wrigley since 2007: Dodgers (20-19, .513), Reds (51-50, .505) and Starters ERA: 3.73 White Sox (16-16, .500) … Philadelphia has a 5-4-2 series record in their 11 series against the Relievers W-L: 5-6 Cubs at Wrigley in that span as well as a +22 run differential in those 38 contests … A win today Relievers ERA: 4.86 would secure Philadelphia’s first series win at The Friendly Confines since July 24-26, 2105, when Saves/Opp: 4/9 the Phils swept the Cubs 3-0 … Jerome Williams started the first game of that series, Cole Hamels tossed a no-hitter in game two and Aaron Nola made his second career start and picked up his PHILLIES AT A GLANCE first career win in game three. March: 1-2 Monday: 3-3 April: 15-10 Tuesday: 5-4 DRAFT RECAP: After the conclusion of the 2018 First-Year Player Draft, the Phillies selected 20 May: 15-11 Wednesday: 6-4 pitchers (17 RHP, 3 LHP), five catchers, five outfielders, four third basemen, three shortstops and June: 1-4 Thursday: 5-2 one first baseman … Philadelphia selected Alec Bohm with their first pick (3rd overall) out of July: N/A Friday: 4-5 Wichita State … With their 39th round pick, the Phillies selected Matheu Nelson, a catcher from Aug: N/A Saturday: 6-3 Calvary Christian High School in Clearwater, FL … Nelson was coached by Roy Halladay. Sept: N/A Sunday: 3-6 DAY DAY, IS THIS YOUR COZEN?: Last night, Dylan Cozens belted his first career home run vs East: 10-15 Day: 11-9 off Brandon Morrow … The opposite field blast, which gave the Phillies a 5-3 lead in the top of vs Cent: 10-3 Night: 21-18 the 9th inning, left Cozens’ bat at 111.3 MPH … It was the second-hardest opposite field home vs West: 7-7 1st Half: 32-27 vs AL: 5-2 2nd Half: N/A run by a Phillies player since Statcast began tracking data in 2015, shy of only Jorge Alfaro’s 114.5 MPH shot, April 7 versus Miami … Additionally, it marked the first time a Phillies player hit INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS his first career home run to give the team a lead in the 9th inning or later since David Doster, *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 June 21, 1996, when he hit a walk-off, solo home run in the bottom of the 10th inning off Colorado’s Bruce Ruffin … Ruffin pitched for the Phillies from 1986-91. PHI All-Time Challenges: 166 Overturned: 92 EXTRA, EXTRA: The Phillies have collected at least one extra-base hit in 55 consecutive games Success Rate: 55.4% (since 4/4) and are one of just three teams in 2018 to have a streak of 50 or more straight 2018 Challenges: 19 games with an extra-base hit: Chicago Cubs – 58 straight games (3/29-current) & Texas Rangers Overturned: 12 – 50 straight games (4/3-5/27) … This current stretch marks Philadelphia’s longest extra-base hit Success Rate: 63.1% streak since August 30, 2008-June 25, 2009 when they did so in 97 straight games. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VINNY: Today, we send birthday wishes to Vince Velasquez as he celebrates his 26th birthday … Velasquez, who will start tomorrow night’s game against the Brewers at Citizens Bank Park, has posted a 2.14 ERA (8 ER, 33.2 IP) over his last six starts (since 5/5) with 45 strikeouts (32.6% SO rate). STAFF NOTES: Over their last 28 games (5/5-current), the Phillies starting rotation has posted a 2.52 ERA (46 ER, 164.0 IP) and has struck out 176 of the 661 batters they have faced (26.6%) … Philadelphia’s 2.52 ERA in that span ranks 2nd in the majors by the slimmest of margins (best: WSH, 2.52 ERA, 49 ER, 175.0 IP) and their 26.6 % strikeout rate ranks 4th (best: WSH, 28.5%) … The staff has allowed 3 ER or fewer in 24 of those 28 games and 2 ER or fewer in 21 of 28. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE: The Phils have seen a total of 8,923 pitches over 2,220 plate appearances this season and their 4.02 pitches per plate appearance rank 2nd in the NL (best: LAD, 4.05) and 4th in the majors (best: LAD, 4.05) … Philadelphia has the 2nd-best walk rate in the majors at 10.1% (best: NYY, 10.2%) and rank 4th among all ML teams this season in walks (224). PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 18-10 Lead After 6: 24-3 Lead After 7: 25-4 Lead After 8: 28-2 Out-Hit Opp: 23-3 Last AB Decisions: 7-4 Opp. Score First: 14-17 Tied After 6: 8-3 Tied After 7: 6-3 Tied After 8: 4-3 Hits equal: 4-4 Walk-off Decisions: 2-4 Score 4 or more: 25-8 Trail After 6: 0-21 Trail After 7: 1-20 Trail After 8: 0-22 Out-Hit by Opp: 5-20 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 20-2 Score 3 or fewer: 7-19 Hit no HR: 6-13 Starter goes 6.0 IP 4-7 Hit at least 1 HR: 26-14 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 8-17 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Friday, June 8 vs MIL 7:05 EDT RHP Jhoulys Chacin (4-1, 3.39) vs RHP Vince Velasquez (4-6, 3.82) NBC 10 Saturday, June 9 vs MIL 1:05 EDT LHP Brent Suter (5-4, 4.55) RHP Jake Arrieta (5-3, 2.66) NBCSP Sunday, June 10 vs MIL 1:35 EDT TBA vs RHP Zach Eflin (2-2, 3.74) NBCSP 2018 PHILLIES NOTES TODAY’S STARTER PAGE 2 NICK PIVETTA RHP #43 PIVETTA – 2018 DAY-BY-DAY Height: 6-5 Weight: 210 Age: 25 (born: 2/14/93) DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA 3/30 at ATL ND, W, 5-4 4.0 5 3 3 0 2 3 6.75 2018: 4-4, 3.48 ERA Career: 12-14, 5.22 ERA 4/5 vs MIA W, 5-0 5.2 4 0 0 0 0 9 2.79 4/11 vs CIN ND, W, 4-3 7.0 5 2 2 0 0 7 2.70 LAST START: 6/1 at SF: L, 4.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 3 SO, HB … Pivetta vs 4/17 at ATL ND, W, 5-1 5.0 5 1 1 0 0 2 2.49 Stratton … Philadelphia’s offense was shut out for just the second time this 4/22 vs PIT ND, W, 3-2 6.1 5 2 2 1 2 7 2.57 season as their six-game winning streak against the Giants was snapped.