Vs PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (21-42) Wednesday, June 14, 2017 – Citizens Bank Park – 7:05 P.M
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BOSTON RED SOX (36-28) vs PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (21-42) Wednesday, June 14, 2017 – Citizens Bank Park – 7:05 p.m. EDT – Game 64; Home 27 LHP Brian Johnson (2-0, 3.44) vs RHP Jeremy Hellickson (5-4, 4.50) LAST NIGHT’S ACTION: The Phillies lost to the Boston Red Sox, 4-3, in 12 innings at Fenway, their second straight extra-inning loss … Starter Ben Lively (ND) went 7.0 innings and allowed 3 ER on 8 PHILLIES PHACTS hits with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts … Boston took a 2-0 lead with runs in the first and second … Philadelphia tied it up on Aaron Atherr’s 10th homer of the season in the third … Each team added a Record: 21-42 (.333) th Home: 12-14 run in the middle innings and neither scored again until Andrew Bentintendi’s single won it in the 12 . Road: 9-28 Current Streak: Lost 7 DRAFT CLASS: On Monday, with the eighth pick in the 2017 MLB First-Year Player Draft, the Phillies Last 5 Games: 0-5 selected 21-year-old OF Adam Haseley (haze-LEE) out of the University of Virginia … Haseley batted Last 10 Games: 3-7 .390 (87-223) with 16 doubles, 14 home runs, 56 RBI, 44 walks, 68 runs, a .491 OBP and a .659 SLG Series Record: 5-15-1 % in 58 games during his junior season … He led the ACC in batting and OBP and ranked 2nd in SLG % Sweeps/Swept: 2/7 and runs, 5th in total bases (147) and walks and 6th in hits … The left-handed hitter was named a 2017 First-Team All-American by Baseball America and Second-Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball … PHILLIES VS. RED SOX th In the second round, they selected RHP Spencer Howard out of Cal Poly with the 45 overall pick … 2107 Record: 0-2 Howard, 20, was a Collegiate Baseball second-team All-American and went 8-1 with a 2.05 ERA in 87.2 2017 at Home: 0-0 IP last season … Through the first 27 rounds, Philadelphia selected 8 LHP, 6 RHP, 4 OF, 4 SS, 2 3B, 2017 at BOS: 0-2 1 2B, 1 1B and 1 C … 23 were selected out of college, 3 out of high school, and 1 from no school. All-Time Record: 23-38 All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 9-17 INTERLEAGUE FATIGUE: The Phillies have lost all seven of their Interleague games this season, All-Time at Fenway Park: 8-19 Current Streak: Lost 6 marking their longest Interleague losing streak since dropping eight straight from 4/1-5/14/14 … Beginning exactly one year ago today, the Phillies have gone just 6-14 in their last 20 games against American League foes, posting a 6.87 ERA while being outscored 139-94 (-45) … Since Interleague PHILLIES AT HOME play began in 1997, Philadelphia’s .435 winning percentage (153-199) ranks 28th among the 30 teams, Games Played: 26 with only Cincinnati (.420) and San Diego (.419) lower. Record: 12-14 (.461) CBP (est. 2004): 581-501 (.537) ALTHERRING IT UP: Outfielder Aaron Altherr hit his 10th home run of the season yesterday, in his st AVG/OBP/SLG: .257/.325/.440 181 at-bat of 2017 … He had nine home runs in 340 career at-bats from 2014-16 … Since 5/1, he has Runs/Runs Per Game: 117/4.50 th th th 28 RBI, which is 5 among NL outfielders in that stretch, and ranks T-5 in doubles (11), 6 in SLG % Home Runs: 33 (.546), T-6th in homers (8) and extra-base hits (20) and 10th in both average (.284) and OBP (.365) … Stolen Bases: 7 26 of Altherr’s 53 hits this season (49.1 %) have gone for extra bases (15 2B, 3B, 10 HR). ERA: 5.03 TOM TERRIFIC: First baseman Tommy Joseph has hit safely in each of his last nine games and is Starters W-L: 5-11 batting .359 with three doubles, a home run and seven RBI in that span … In addition, Joseph is Starters ERA: 5.84 Relievers W-L: 7-3 slashing .300/.349/.557 in his last 40 games (152 PA, 5/1-current) with 9 homers and 25 RBI … Only Relievers ERA: 3.87 Miami’s Justin Bour (12), Arizona’s Paul Goldschmidt (11) and Cincinnati’s Joey Votto (10) have more Saves/Opp: 4/8 nd home runs among NL first basemen since 5/1 … Having recently completed his 162 career ML game, Joseph had clubbed 31 homers in 503 at-bats and became only the fourth Phillie since 1913 with 30+ PHILLIES AT A GLANCE HR in his first 162 career games, joining Chuck Klein (44), Ryan Howard (43) and Don Hurst (31). April: 11-12 Monday: 3-4 May: 6-22 Tuesday: 2-7 FRANCO FILES: Third baseman Maikel Franco was 6-for-9 (.667) with two doubles and two walks June: 4-8 Wednesday: 1-9 in the two games in Boston, becoming the first Phillie this season to reach base eight times in a two- July: 0-0 Thursday: 3-4 game span (last: Hernandez, 9/21-22/16) … In that stretch, he reached base in seven straight plate Aug: 0-0 Friday: 2-7 appearances, the first Phillie to do so since Odubel Herrera from 5/11-13/16 (per Elias) … Franco’s Sept: 0-0 Saturday: 5-5 four hits last night tied a career high (5x, last: 10/2/16 vs NYM). Oct: 0-0 Sunday: 5-6 vs East: 14-16 Day: 11-14 BEANTOWN BEATDOWN: Since 2004, the Phillies have gone 1-12-2 in 15 series against the Red vs Cent: 4-12 Night: 10-28 Sox (12-30 overall record) ... They have lost six straight games to the Boston (4/9/15-current) for the vs West: 3-7 1st Half: 21-42 first time since 6/27/04-5/20/06 (6) … A loss tonight gives them their longest losing streak against the vs AL: 0-7 2nd Half: 0-0 Red Sox ever, and their third-longest losing streak ever against any AL opponent (LAA, 9 G, 6/10/03- current & TOR, 8 G, 7/3/11-5/8/14). INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 EXTRA, EXTRA!: With two straight extra-inning games against Boston, Philadelphia now has gone to rd PHI All-Time Challenges: 130 extras eight times this year, T-3 most among all ML clubs … They had just 13 extra-inning games all Overturned: 69 last season … An extra-inning affair tonight would tie a franchise-record 3 consecutive extra-inning Success Rate: 53.0% games, last done 5/30-6/1/14, all vs NYM (per Elias). 2017 Challenges: 14 CENTER OF ATTENTION: Phillies centerfielder Odubel Herrera leads the majors with 13 XBH this Overturned: 7 Success Rate: 50.0% month, three clear of the Yankees’ Aaron Hicks (10) … Herrera, with 23 doubles that lead the majors this season (next: BOS’ Betts, 22 2B), has 11 doubles this month and is only three shy of the club’s Last Challenge: 6/12 at BOS modern day record for June (Pinky Whitney, 14 2B in 1931) … Furthermore, he is just seven two- Situation: T4, 2 out, bases empty baggers shy of the club’s record (since 1900) for doubles in a single month (Chuck Klein, 18 2B in July of 1930) … Herrera has now hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games (since 5/31 raising his batting Result: The Replay Official could not average from .217 to .253 and his OPS from .590 to .704. definitively determine that the batter- runner maintained contact with the base throughout the slide, as the fielder was TODAY IN PHILLIES HISTORY: June 14, 2004: Jim Thome homers to left in the first inning, the applying the tag. The call STANDS, the 400th home run of his career … The Phillies Wall of Famer was the 37th player ever at the time to reach that mark … June 14, 2014: Jimmy Rollins hits a single in the fifth inning for career hit 2,235, moving him past Mike Schmidt to become the Phillies’ all-time hits leader. PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 9-17 Lead After 6: 14-5 Lead After 7: 13-2 Lead After 8: 16-1 Out-Hit Opp: 18-5 Last AB Decisions: 9-10 Opp. Score First: 12-24 Tied After 6: 3-5 Tied After 7: 5-6 Tied After 8: 4-7 Hits equal: 0-3 Walk-off Decisions: 5-7 Score 4 or more: 18-17 Trail After 6: 4-31 Trail After 7: 3-33 Trail After 8: 1-33 Out-Hit by Opp: 3-33 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 6-7 Score 3 or fewer: 3-24 Hit no HR: 4-19 Starter goes 6.0 IP 3-11 Hit at least 1 HR: 17-22 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 12-22 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Thursday, June 15 vs BOS 7:05 EDT LHP Chris Sale (8-2, 2.97) vs RHP Nick Pivetta (1-3, 5.52) CSN Friday, June 16 vs ARI 7:05 EDT LHP Patrick Corbin (5-6, 5.38) vs RHP Aaron Nola (3-4, 4.40) CSN Saturday, June 17 vs ARI 4:05 EDT RHP Zack Godley (2-1, 2.44) vs RHP Jerad Eickhoff (0-7, 5.09) TCN Sunday, June 18 vs ARI 1:35 EDT LHP Robbie Ray (7-3, 2.62) vs RHP Ben Lively (1-1, 3.00) CSN 2017 PHILLIES NOTES TONIGHT’S STARTER PAGE 2 JEREMY HELLICKSON RHP #58 HELLICKSON – 2017 DAY-BY-DAY DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA Height: 6-1 Weight: 190 Age: 30 (born: 4/8/87) 2017: 5-4, 4.50 ERA Career: 66-62, 3.94 ERA 4/3 at CIN W, 4-3 5.0 6 1 1 0 1 1 1.80 4/9 vs WSH ND, W, 4-3 5.0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.90 LAST START: 6/9 at STL: L, 6.0 IP, 10 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 IBB, 5 SO, 1 HR … 4/15 at WSH W, 4-2 7.0 4 2 2 1 1 2 1.59 Hellickson vs Wacha … Aaron Altherr led the Phils offense with three extra-base 4/21 vs ATL W, 4-3 7.0 3 2 2 1 0 5 1.88 hits, but unfortunately Philadelphia failed to bring him around to score each time 4/27 vs MIA W, 3-2 6.0 7 1 1 0 0 1 1.80 … Casey Fien made his Phillies debut and tossed 2.0 scoreless innings in relief of APRIL 4-0 30.0 21 6 6 2 3 11 1.80 Hellickson.