PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (74-67) vs NEW YORK METS (64-77) Sunday, September 9, 2018 – 1:10 EDT – Citi Field – Game 142 – Road 73 RHP Vince Velasquez (9-10, 4.10 ERA) vs RHP Jacob deGrom (8-8, 1.68 ERA) • LAST NIGHT’S RECAP: The Phillies fell to the Mets, 10-5, in Flushing … Starter Zach Eflin (L, 9- 7) struck out 5 batters over 3.0 innings, but he allowed 6 runs on 4 hits and 3 walks … Offensively, PHILLIES PHACTS the Phils collected 14 hits and 6 walks … Five different Phillies posted multi-hit games, including Record: 74-67 Cesar Hernandez, who had 4 hits and 3 RBI, matching his career high in both categories … Rhys Home: 43-26 Hoskins homered off Noah Syndergaard in the sixth inning. Road: 31-41 Current Streak: Lost 1 • AN ODD NIGHT: Even though Philadelphia lost last night, its offense had 12 hits against Noah Last 5 Games: 2-3 Syndergaard, which were the most he has ever surrendered in a start during his major league Last 10 Games: 4-6 career … It was just the fourth time he ever allowed 10 or more hits in one of his starts … He also Series Record: 18-22-6 matched his career high by surrendering five walks for only the second time ever. Sweeps/Swept: 8/2 • ARMS RACE: Today’s starter Vince Velasquez is two strikeouts shy of 150 for the season … PHILLIES VS. METS Should he record at least two strikeouts today, he would be the third Phillies pitcher with 150 or 2018 Record: 6-9 more strikeouts in 2018, joining Aaron Nola (196 SO) and Nick Pivetta (172 SO) … It would 2018 at Home: 3-4 mark only the third time in franchise history that the Phillies had three pitchers with 2018 at NYM: 3-5 150 or more strikeouts in the same season (also: 2011 – Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels, All-Time Record: 506-477 Cliff Lee and 2016 – Jerad Eickhoff, Jeremy Hellickson and Velasquez). All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 59-78 All-Time at Citi Field: 42-49 • RHYS-PECT THE POWER: Outfielder Rhys Hoskins slugged his 29th home run of the season Current Streak: Lost 1 last night with a solo shot off Noah Syndergaard … It marked the seventh time this season in which he has homered in consecutive games … Should he homer today, it would be the third instance in PHILLIES ON ROAD 2018 of him homering in three straight games (last: 7/22-23) … His home run last night came on Games Played: 72 a 0-2 count, which gives him 15 homers with two strikes this season … Among all National Record: 31-41 (.431) League hitters, he trails only MIL’s Jesus Aguilar (17) in long balls with two strikes … Additionally, Hoskins has 59 extra-base hits (30 2B & 29 HR) this season and with one more he AVG/OBP/SLG: .236/.318/.381 would be the first Phillie since 2012 with 60 or more extra-base hits in a season, when Jimmy Runs/Runs Per Game: 284/3.94 Rollins collected 61 that year. Home Runs: 75 Stolen Bases: 27 • SANTANA’S STREAK: Infielder Carlos Santana has hit safely in 10 consecutive games (since ERA: 4.20 8/28), batting .341 (14-41) with two doubles, three homers and eight RBI over that stretch … If Starters W-L: 24-25 he gets a hit in his next game, the switch hitter will match the longest hitting streak by a Phillie Starters ERA: 3.95 this season (also: 11 G, Odubel Herrera, 4/16-28) … Santana owns the longest active hitting Relievers W-L: 7-16 streak in the National League. Relievers ERA: 4.62 Saves/Opp: 15/24 • 500 (AND COUNTING) WALKS OF SUMMER: Philadelphia’s 506 walks are its most in a season since 2011, when the club had 539 … Entering play today, the Phillies were just one of eight clubs PHILLIES AT A GLANCE in the majors with at least 500 walks this season … Carlos Santana (94), Cesar Hernandez (87) March: 1-2 Monday: 5-10 and Rhys Hoskins (77) are the first trio of Phillies with 75 or more walks in a season since 2009 April: 15-10 Tuesday: 12-9 (Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Jayson Werth) … The Phils are the only team in MLB that has May: 15-11 Wednesday: 12-9 multiple players with 75 or more walks in 2018. June: 13-14 Thursday: 12-4 July: 15-11 Friday: 12-11 • CAB IN THE CITI: In his return to Citi Field this series, Asdrubal Cabrera has gone 3-for-8 Aug: 13-14 Saturday: 11-10 (.375) with a double, RBI and walk … He has 58 extra-base hits (34 2B, 1 3B, 23 HR) this season, Sept: 2-5 Sunday: 10-14 his most since a career-high 60 in 2011 … Since July 28, his first game in a Phillies uniform, he leads the club in extra-base hits (16; next: Hoskins, 15) … Among all National League switch vs East: 28-31 Day: 24-22 hitters this season, he has the second-most extra-base hits, trailing only ATL’s Ozzie vs Cent: 19-14 Night: 50-45 vs West: 15-14 1st Half: 53-42 Albies (60). vs AL: 12-8 2nd Half: 21-25 • LOOK AT THE ROOKS: Since August 16, the Phillies rookie trio of Roman Quinn, Jorge Alfaro and Scott Kingery have combined to bat .352 (45-128) with five doubles, four triples, five home runs, 13 RBI, 19 runs scored and eight stolen bases … Among NL rookies with 35 plate appearances in that span, Quinn ranks first in batting average (.392, also first in MLB), th th Alfaro is third (.361, also 5 in MLB) and Kingery is 10 (.293). • REMEMBER THE FIGHTINS: The Phillies enter play today 3.5 games back of the Atlanta Braves for first place in National League East with 21 games remaining in the 2018 season … Of the 21 games remaining for the Phillies, each of the next 10 will come against teams with a record below .500 … However, each of Philadelphia’s final 11 games will come against teams with a winning record (7 G vs ATL & 4 G vs COL) … Philadelphia has nine road games left on the schedule and 12 games at CBP… Seven of their final 11 games this season will come against the Braves. • ROAD WOES: At 31-41 on the road this season, the Phillies have a .431 winning percentage, which ranks 11th out of 15 National League clubs … Conversely, with a 43-25 (.632) record at Citizens Bank Park (excluding their neutral site home game at Bowman Field against the Mets on August 19), the Phillies have the second-best home record in the NL and fifth best in all of baseball … Since drawing a game within the .500 mark on the road on July 13 at 23-24, the Phillies have gone 8-17 (.320) over their last 25 road contests (7/14-current) … Discounting their one-game make up series on July 12 at BAL, the Phillies have not won a road series of two or more games in two months (last: 7/6-8 at PIT, 2-1), having gone 0-7-2 in those nine such series. • THIS DATE IN PHILLIES HISTORY: September 9, 1970 – Phillies Wall of Famer Greg Luzinski makes his major league debut as a pinch hitter in game two of a doubleheader against the Mets in New York. PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 43-21 Lead After 6: 57-9 Lead After 7: 61-9 Lead After 8: 66-5 Out-Hit Opp: 48-15 Last AB Decisions: 14-16 Opp. Score First: 31-46 Tied After 6: 14-8 Tied After 7: 11-8 Tied After 8: 7-8 Hits equal: 7-7 Walk-off Decisions: 7-9 Score 4 or more: 58-21 Trail After 6: 3-50 Trail After 7: 2-50 Trail After 8: 1-54 Out-Hit by Opp: 19-45 Starter goes at least 5.0 65-43 Score 3 or fewer: 16-46 Hit no HR: 14-29 Starter goes at least 6.0 53-22 Hit at least 1 HR: 60-38 Starter goes at least 7.0 28-4 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Monday, September 10 vs WSH 7:05 EDT RHP Tanner Roark (8-15, 4.23 ERA) vs RHP Jake Arrieta (10-9, 3.61 ERA) NBCSP, MLBN Tuesday, September 11 vs WSH 7:05 EDT RHP Stephen Strasburg (7-7, 4.04 ERA) vs RHP Nick Pivetta (7-11, 4.66 ERA) NBCSP Wednesday, September 12 vs WSH 7:05 EDT RHP Joe Ross (0-0, -.--) vs RHP Aaron Nola (16-4, 2.29 ERA) NBCSP Thursday, September 13 OFF DAY 2018 PHILLIES NOTES TODAY’S STARTER PAGE 2 VINCE VELASQUEZ • RHP #28 VELASQUEZ – 2018 DAY-BY-DAY Height: 6-3 Weight: 203 Age: 26 (born: 6/7/92) DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA 3/31 at ATL L, 15-2 2.2 9 7 4 0 2 4 13.50 2018: 9-10, 4.10 ERA Career: 20-24, 4.33 ERA 4/7 vs MIA W, 20-1 6.0 4 1 1 0 1 6 5.19 4/13 at TB ND, W, 2-1 6.2 4 1 1 0 1 7 3.52 LAST START: 9/3 at MIA: L, 5.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, BB, 6 SO … Velasquez vs 4/18 at ATL L, 7-3 6.0 7 3 3 1 1 7 3.80 Urena … Philadelphia’s bullpen combined to work 3.0 scoreless innings and 4/24 vs ARI L, 8-4 4.2 4 4 4 2 2 6 4.50 surrendered just 1 hit and no walks … Asdrubal Cabrera connected on a solo 4/29 vs ATL L, 10-1 4.0 7 6 6 2 2 4 5.70 nd homer in the 2 inning, his 22nd home run this season.