PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (18-25) Vs. WASHINGTON NATIONALS (24-17) Friday, May 22, 2015 – Nationals Park – 7:05 P.M
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PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (18-25) vs. WASHINGTON NATIONALS (24-17) Friday, May 22, 2015 – Nationals Park – 7:05 p.m. EDT – Game 44; Road 22 RHP Sean O’Sullivan (1-2, 3.68) vs. RHP Max Scherzer (4-3, 1.75) YESTERDAY’S ACTION: The Phillies lost to the Colorado Rockies, 7-3, at Coors Field ... Starter PHILLIES PHACTS Jerome Williams suffered his 4th loss of the season ... He allowed 5 ER on 8 hits in 5.0 innings with 3 walks and no strikeouts ... Philadelphia took a 1-0 lead in the 3rd inning on an RBI single by Darin Ruf Record (2015): 18-25 (.419) Home (2015): 12-10 ... Colorado scored 3 runs in the bottom half of the frame on a 2-run single by Troy Tulowitzki and an th Road (2015): 6-15 RBI single by Brandon Barnes ... The Phillies fought back, tying the game in the top of the 5 on Current Streak: Lost 1 leadoff triple by Utley, a sac fly by Darin Ruf, and a solo home run by Ryan Howard ... But the Rockies Last 5 Games: 3-2 answered back again in the bottom half of the inning, as Michael McKenry ripped a 2-run homer off Last 10 Games: 7-3 Williams to put his team up, 5-3 ... Colorado plated 2 more runs on 3 hits in the 7th inning off Elvis Series Record/# of series: 3-8-2 Araujo ... The top four batters in the Phillies batting order went 6-for-16 (.375), but the rest of the Sweeps/Swept: 1/1 team had only one hit in their 16 at-bats (.063) ... Philadelphia went 1-for-9 with RISP, leaving 7 men on base. PHILLIES VS. NATIONALS 2015 Record: 3-4 RYAN POWERED: Yesterday, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard slugged his second home run in 2015 at Home: 2-1 as many games and the ninth over his last 98 at-bats ... This marks the first time that Howard 2015 at WSH: 1-3 has hit nine or more HR over a stretch of 100 or fewer at-bats since August 10 to All-Time Record: 109-82 September 11, 2011, when he hit nine homers in 84 AB ... Since April 21st, Howard is hitting All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 60-35 All-Time at Nationals Park: 33-35 .290 with five doubles, one triple, nine HR and 19 RBI in 28 games ... During that time, he is tied for rd Current Streak: Lost 1 3 in the majors in home runs with MIL’s Ryan Braun and CIN’s Todd Frazier, trailing only WSH’s Bryce Harper (11) and MIA’s Giancarlo Stanton (10) ... Howard also ranks 5th in MLB in slugging % PHILS ON THE ROAD (.630) over that stretch and T-6th in extra-base hits (15) ... He began the year batting .175 with zero home runs and a .250 slugging % over his first 11 games. Games Played: 21 Record: 6-15 (.286) HE’S BAAAAACK: Since last Friday (5/15), veteran Chase Utley is batting .450 (9-20) with a .542 Batting Average: .241 OBP (4 BB), 4 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBI and 5 R in six games ... He has at least one extra-base hit in five of Runs/Runs Per Game: 65/3.10 rd those six contests ... Utley is tied for 3 in MLB in doubles over that stretch as well after hitting just Home Runs: 10 one in his previous 33 games (9/28/14-5/14/15) ... Utley was batting a Major League low .118 (13- Stolen Bases: 10 110) over his first 32 games of the season. ERA: 5.07 ON THIS DATE IN MLB HISTORY: May 22, 2010 – Current Phillies TV broadcaster, Matt Stairs, Starters W-L: 6-13 Starters ERA: 5.96 tied a Major League record when he homered for his 11th different team in San Diego's 2-1 Interleague th Relievers W-L: 0-2 victory in Seattle ... The Padres designated hitter crushed a 4 inning homer off Ian Snell to tie Todd Relievers ERA: 3.41 Zeile’s record, who accomplished the feat by going deep in an Expo uniform in 2003. Saves/Opp: 4/4 OFF THE CHARTS: After six weeks of struggles, Philadelphia’s offense has woken from its slumber ... PHILLIES AT A GLANCE Since May 14th, the Phillies have scored four or more runs in seven of their eight games (37 R, 4.63 2015 DAY-BY-DAY RPG) with a .290 team average, which is the 2nd-highest mark in the National League and 4th in MLB st April: 8-15 Monday: 3-3 over that stretch (DET - .313, SF - .309, KC - .307) ... They are also 1 in doubles (23 - 4 more than May: 10-10 Tuesday: 1-5 st nd th th any other team), T-1 in extra-base hits (31), 2 in hits (79), 4 in OBP (.354), 5 in slugging % June: 0-0 Wednesday: 3-4 (.456), 6th in runs (37), and 8th in runs per game (4.63) ... Prior to this stretch, they had averaged only July: 0-0 Thursday: 1-5 2.83 RPG over their first 35 games (worst in MLB), scored more than three runs only 12 times, and Aug: 0-0 Friday: 4-2 had only five double-digit hit games. Sept: 0-0 Saturday: 3-3 Oct: 0-0 Sunday: 3-3 NATIONAL PRIDE: The Phillies have had the Nationals number recently, winning three of the last 2015 2014 four series between the two clubs (8-5 overall record since 8/25/14) ... In those 13 games, vs East: 9-16 vs East: 34-42 Philadelphia has the edge in runs scored (49 to 47), while Phillies pitchers have posted a 3.46 ERA (45 vs Cent: 3-5 vs Cent: 15-18 ER, 117.0 IP), including eight quality starts ... Last year, Philadelphia went 10-9 (.526) versus vs West: 5-2 vs West: 17-16 Washington, marking their first winning season against the Nationals since 2010 (12-6) ... They were vs AL: 1-2 vs AL: 7-13 8-11 vs WSH in 2013, 9-9 in 2012, and 8-10 in 2011 ... Nationals Park has been a tough spot to play for the Phillies over the last few years, however, as they’ve compiled a 1-6-1 record over their last INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS eight series here (8-18 overall record since 10/1/12) ... Philadelphia’s only series win in DC during that *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 period came from September 5-7, 2014 (2-1). PHI All-Time Challenges: 45 Overturned: 20 ROAD KILL: The Phillies have not won a road series over their last nine tries, going 0-8-1 since Success Rate: 44.4% September 15, 2014 (9-22 overall record) ... Additionally, the Phillies are 2-13-2 over their last 17 road series (19-36 road record since 7/18/14), having been outscored 252-181 in those games ... 2015 Challenges: 13 Philadelphia’s last road series win came from September 5-7, 2014 at WSH (2-1) ... So far this year, Overturned: 6 the Phillies have won just six of their 21 road games (.286), giving them the lowest road winning Last Challenge: 5/18 at COL percentage in the majors (next: TOR, .348, 8-15) ... From 2004-12, the Phillies had a streak of nine Situation: B8, 1 out, runners on 1B & 2B consecutive winning seasons on the road. Result: Stands; after viewing all relevant angles, the Replay Official could not SLOPPY JOE’S: The Phillies committed two more errors yesterday in Colorado (Galvis, Franco) to definitively determine that the runner was give them 33 on the year (42 G), 2nd-most in the NL and T-3rd in MLB ... Only the A’s (45) and Brewers tagged prior to touching home plate. Call (36) have more this season ... In 2014, Philadelphia committed only 83 errors, tied with the Angles for stands, runner is safe. 3rd-fewest in all of MLB ... The last time the Phillies had this many errors in their first 42 games was their World Series championship season in 2008 when they had 35 E through their first 42 G. PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 11-6 Lead After 6: 13-2 Lead After 7: 16-0 Lead After 8: 16-0 Out-Hit Opp: 13-3 Last AB Decisions: 2-3 Opp. Score First: 7-19 Tied After 6: 2-3 Tied After 7: 1-2 Tied After 8: 2-2 Hits equal: 1-3 Walk-off Decisions: 2-1 Score more than 3: 14-5 Trail After 6: 3-20 Trail After 7: 1-23 Trail After 8: 0-23 Out-Hit by Opp: 4-19 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 9-2 Score 3 or less: 4-20 Hit no HR: 11-14 Starter goes 6.0 IP 6-7 Hit at least 1 HR: 7-11 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 3-16 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Saturday, May 23 at WSH 4:05 EDT LHP Cole Hamels (4-3, 3.24) vs. RHP Stephen Strasburg (3-4, 5.98) TCN Sunday, May 24 at WS 1:35 EDT RHP Aaron Harang (4-3, 1.82) vs. LHP Gio Gonzalez (3-2, 4.94) CSN 2015 PHILLIES NOTES TONIGHT’S STARTER PAGE 2 SEAN O’SULLIVAN RHP #47 O’SULLIVAN – 2015 DAY-BY-DAY DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA Height: 6-1 Weight: 253 Age: 27 (born: 9/1/87) 4/12 vs WSH ND, L, 4-3 6.0 5 2 2 1 1 5 3.00 2015: 1-2, 3.68 ERA Career: 11-19, 5.72 ERA 4/17 at WSH L, 7-2 5.0 5 4 4 2 2 2 4.91 APRIL 0-1 11.0 10 6 6 3 3 7 4.91 LAST START – 5/17 vs ARI: W, 6.0 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 SO (O’Sullivan vs *5/7 vs AUG ND, L, 4-2 4.1 5 1 1 0 1 5 Collmenter) … O’Sullivan earned his first win as a Phillie, throwing 6.0 scoreless 5/12 vs PIT L, 7-2 5.0 5 3 3 1 1 2 5.06 innings ..