Vs PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (28-54) Wednesday, July 5, 2017 – Citizens Bank Park – 7:05 P.M
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PITTSBURGH PIRATES (38-46) vs PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (28-54) Wednesday, July 5, 2017 – Citizens Bank Park – 7:05 p.m. EDT – Game 83; Home 37 RHP Gerrit Cole (6-7, 4.51) vs RHP Ben Lively (1-3, 3.72) LAST NIGHT’S ACTION: The Phillies lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0, at Citizens Bank Park … Starter Mark Leiter Jr. (L, 1-1) went 5.1 innings and allowed 2 runs on 4 hits with 2 walks and 5 PHILLIES PHACTS strikeouts … Philadelphia, shut out for the fifth time in 2017, had several opportunities to score but could not capitalize … In all, they left 11 men on base, 8 of which were in scoring position … Andrew Record: 28-54 (.341) Home: 15-21 Knapp tallied 3 walks, Odubel Herrera collected 2 hits and Freddy Galvis went 1-for-3 with a double Road: 13-33 and 2 walks. Current Streak: Lost 1 Last 5 Games: 2-3 FRED HOT: Phillies shortstop Freddy Galvis, who on Monday welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the Last 10 Games: 4-6 world, is scorching hot at the plate… In 124 plate appearances over the past month (6/3-current), Series Record: 6-19-2 Galvis is batting .304 (35-115) with a .350 OBP and .478 SLG % … Galvis has eight walks to only 18 Sweeps/Swept: 3/8 strikeouts in that span and has tallied 11 extra-base hits (6 2B, 3B, 4 HR) with three stolen bases … Galvis now has 29 extra-base hits this season, third most among National League shortstops, trailing PHILLIES VS. PIRATES only a pair of All-Stars in Corey Seager (34) and Zack Cozart (30) … As the only Phillie to start every 2017 Record: 2-3 game this season, Galvis ranks 1st among all National League shortstops in starts (82) and innings 2017 at Home: 1-1 (724.0). 2017 at PIT: 1-2 All-Time Record: 1059-1214-8 ROTATION REBOUND: Phillies starters have recorded a quality start in 11 of their last 16 games All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 27-18 (6/17-current), posting a 3.27 ERA (35 ER, 96.1 IP) in that span … Their 3.27 ERA since June 17 All-Time at PNC Park: 18-35 Current Streak: Lost 1 ranks fourth among all rotations in baseball (best: LAD, 2.58) … They have allowed one earned run or none in seven of those starts and have walked one batter or none in seven of them … In addition, over their last 27 games (6/6-current), the rotation has logged 163.1 innings on the PHILLIES AT HOME mound, an average of just over of 6.0 innings pitched per game while posting a 3.86 ERA (70 ER) … Games Played: 36 Prior to that span, Phils starters were averaging 5.1 innings per game (173 ER, 293.1 IP) with a 5.31 Record: 15-21 (.417) ERA (4/3-6/5) in their first 55 games this season. CBP (est. 2004): 584-508 (.535) AVG/OBP/SLG: .250/.318/.417 KNAPP TIME: Catcher Andrew Knapp, who set a career-high and also tied a Phillies season high Runs/Runs Per Game: 146/4.06 with three walks yesterday, has posted a .277/.378/.426 slash line over his last 35 games (4/27- Home Runs: 41 current, 111 PA) … Knapp’s .378 OBP in that span ranks 3rd among all NL catchers and 5th among all Stolen Bases: 11 ML catchers with at least 100 trips to the plate, trailing only DET’s Alex Avila (.415 OBP), NYY’s Gary Sanchez (.402), SF’s Buster Posey (.402 OBP) and ATL’s Tyler Flowers (.401 OBP) … In the friendly ERA: 4.72 confines of South Philly, Knapp has reached base safely in 24 of his 56 plate appearances (.429 OBP) Starters W-L: 7-14 Starters ERA: 5.01 and has 13 walks to 14 strikeouts. Relievers W-L: 8-7 Relievers ERA: 4.26 WALK THE PLANK: Since 2012, Philadelphia is 14-26 against the Pirates and have only won Saves/Opp: 5/11 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 27-18 all-time against the PHILLIES AT A GLANCE Pirates at CBP (.600 win %) and the Pirates are 35-18 against Philadelphia all-time at PNC (.660 win April: 11-12 Monday: 4-5 %) … Philadelphia has played 2,281 games against Pittsburgh all-time, their third-most May: 6-22 Tuesday: 3-9 against any single opponent trailing only the Braves and Cubs (Per Elias). June: 9-18 Wednesday: 2-11 July: 2-2 Thursday: 5-4 TIME MANAGEMENT: The Phillies are in a stretch of 20 games that begin at a different time than Aug: 0-0 Friday: 3-9 the day before … Starting on June 22 with a 1:05 start at home against the Cardinals, the Phillies Sept: 0-0 Saturday: 5-8 have started at 9:40 (6/23 at ARI), 10:10 (6/24 at ARI), 4:10 (6/25 at ARI), 3:40 (6/26 at ARI), Oct: 0-0 Sunday: 6-8 10:10 (6/27 at SEA), 3:40 (6/28 at SEA), 7:10 (6/30 at NYM), 4:10 (7/1 at NYM), 1:10 (7/2 at vs East: 15-18 Day: 14-20 NYM), (7/3 vs PIT) and 4:10 (7/4 vs PIT) …. After a 7:05 start this evening versus the Pirates, the vs Cent: 6-15 Night: 14-34 Phillies are scheduled to begin at 6:05 (7/6 vs PIT), 6:35 (7/7 vs SD), 4:05 (7/8 vs SD), 1:35 (7/9 vs vs West: 4-13 1st Half: 28-55 SD), 8:10 (7/14 at MIL), 7:10 (7/15 at MIL) and 2:10 (7/16 at MIL) … Philadelphia will not play vs AL: 3-8 2nd Half: 0-0 consecutive games at the same time until July 17-18 at MIA (7:10 starts). INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS DEBUT SEASON: Outfielder Nick Williams became the ninth Phillie this season to make his major *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 league debut on July 1 at NYM … He joined 1B Brock Stassi (4/3), C Andrew Knapp (4/6), RHP Mark Leiter Jr. (4/28), RHP Nick Pivetta (4/30), RHP Ricardo Pinto (5/31), RHP Ben Lively PHI All-Time Challenges: 133 Overturned: 71 (6/3), OF Cameron Perkins (6/20) and LHP Hoby Milner (6/24) to start their big league careers Success Rate: 53.4% this year … Per Elias, this marks only the fourth time the Phillies have had nine or more players make their ML debut before the All-Star Break (since 1933): 1969 (10 times), 2017 Challenges: 17 1944 (9 times) and 1934 (10 times) … This season, the Phillies rank 3rd for most ML debuts, Overturned: 9 Success Rate: 52.9% trailing only the Cincinnati Reds (11) and New York Yankees (10). Last Challenge: 7/2 at NYM STARBOY: Right-hander Pat Neshek was selected to represent the Phillies and the National league Situation: T8, 0 out, runner at 1st in the 88th Midsummer Classic … It is his second All-Star selection (2014 with STL) … He becomes the first Phillies reliever who was not the team’s primary closer in the first half to be Result: The Replay Official definitively selected as an All-Star since Joe Hoerner in 1970 (Tug McGraw and Gene Garber split closer determined that the batter-runner's foot touched first base prior to the ball duties in 1975, but McGraw, the All-Star, had more saves opportunities before the break). contacting the interior of the fielder's glove. The call is OVERTURNED, the ON THE FARM: Philadelphia’s minor league system won six of the eight games played yesterday and batter-runner is safe. raised their combined winning percentage to .560, third-best among all major league farm systems, trailing only the New York Yankees (.600) and Minnesota Twins (.585) … Individually, J.P. Crawford went 2-for-5 with two home runs and four RBI in Lehigh Valley’s 8-0 win at Syracuse … Over the last 30 days, Crawford is batting .263 (21-80) with a .352 OBP and .488 SLG % … Crawford has 10 extra- base hits in that stretch (5 2B, 2 3B, 3 HR) with 11 walks to 13 strikeouts … Crawford’s new double- play partner, Scott Kingery, went 4-for-5 with a double and two runs scored in last night’s contest. PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 14-18 Lead After 6: 18-8 Lead After 7: 18-4 Lead After 8: 22-3 Out-Hit Opp: 23-8 Last AB Decisions: 10-14 Opp. Score First: 14-36 Tied After 6: 5-8 Tied After 7: 6-8 Tied After 8: 4-9 Hits equal: 0-5 Walk-off Decisions: 5-8 Score 4 or more: 24-21 Trail After 6: 5-38 Trail After 7: 4-42 Trail After 8: 2-42 Out-Hit by Opp: 5-41 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 11-11 Score 3 or fewer: 4-33 Hit no HR: 6-27 Starter goes 6.0 IP 4-15 Hit at least 1 HR: 22-27 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 13-28 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Thursday, July 6 vs PIT 6:05 EDT RHP Chad Kuhl (2-6, 5.26) vs RHP Jeremy Hellickson (5-5, 4.48) CSN 2017 PHILLIES NOTES TONIGHT’S STARTER PAGE 2 BEN LIVELY RHP #49 LIVELY – 2017 DAY-BY-DAY DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA Height: 6-4 Weight: 190 Age: 25 (born: 3/5/92) 2017: 1-3, 3.72 ERA Career: 1-3, 3.72 ERA *4/9 vs PAW W, 3-1 6.0 3 1 1 0 0 5 *4/14 at PAW L, 6-1 5.0 4 5 4 0 2 5 LAST START: 6/30 at NYM: L, 6.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 2 SO … Lively vs *4/22 vs TOL W, 6-1 6.0 4 1 1 0 1 4 deGrom … Lively struggled to find his command early as his 4 walks came in the *4/29 at TOL W, 6-1 7.0 6 1 0 0 0 1 first 2.0 innings of the contest … He settled down nicely and pitched into the 7th *5/4 vs SWB ND, W, 5-3 5.0 7 3 3 0 1 5 inning, recording another quality start … Mets starter Jacob deGrom punched out *5/9 vs ROC W, 4-1 7.1 6 1 1 0 1 4 12 Phillies batters as he picked up his eighth win of the season … Adam Morgan *5/16 at ROC W, 9-5 6.0 6 5 5 1 0 5 (0.2 IP) and Pat Neshek (1.0 IP) made scoreless appearances in relief of Lively.