PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (74-66) vs NEW YORK METS (63-77) Saturday, September 8, 2018 – 7:10 EDT – Citi Field – Game 141 – Road 72 RHP Zach Eflin (9-6, 4.05 ERA) vs RHP Noah Syndergaard (10-3, 3.33 ERA) • LAST NIGHT’S RECAP: The Phillies defeated the Mets, 4-3, in Flushing … Starter Aaron Nola (W, 16-4) continued his case for the National League Cy Young Award, tossing 7.0 innings with 8 PHILLIES PHACTS strikeouts, while allowing 3 runs on 3 hits and 1 walk … Rhys Hoskins slugged a go-ahead home Record: 74-66 run in the eighth inning, and Carlos Santana gave the Phils a 2-1 lead with a two-run shot in the Home: 43-26 third inning … Seranthony Dominguez (1.0 IP) and Tommy Hunter (1.0 IP) combined to retire all Road: 31-40 six of the batters they faced to secure the win for Philadelphia. Current Streak: Won 1 Last 5 Games: 2-3 Last 10 Games: 4-6 • TRANSACTION: Today, the Phillies recalled INF Mitch Walding from Lehigh Valley (AAA). Series Record: 18-22-6 • DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK: The Phillies notched their 37th comeback win of the season last Sweeps/Swept: 8/2 night, matching their 2017 season total … Entering play today, the Phils were tied for the fifth-most come-from-behind victories in the majors, trailing only the Chicago Cubs (44), Boston Red Sox (43), PHILLIES VS. METS Colorado Rockies (41) and Minnesota Twins (38). 2018 Record: 6-8 th 2018 at Home: 3-4 • CAPTAIN CLUTCH: Outfielder Rhys Hoskins slugged his 16 go-ahead homer of the season last 2018 at NYM: 3-4 night … Of his 28 long balls this season, 21 have either tied a game or given the Phillies a lead … All-Time Record: 506-476 Entering play today, he was one of just two players in MLB with at least 20 such homers All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 59-78 (also: ARI’s Paul Goldschmidt – 23) … Additionally, through yesterday’s games, only MIL’s All-Time at Citi Field: 42-48 Jesus Aguilar (17) had more home runs with two strikes than Hoskins (14) among all National Current Streak: Won 1 League players this year. PHILLIES ON ROAD • 500 WALKS OF SUMMER: In the fourth inning of last night’s game, Cesar Hernandez drew a th Games Played: 71 walk, the 500 of the season for the Phillies … Philadelphia’s 500 walks are its most in a season Record: 31-40 (.437) since 2011, when the club had 539 … Entering play today, the Phillies were just one of seven clubs in the majors with at least 500 walks this season … Carlos Santana (94), Hernandez (87) and AVG/OBP/SLG: .234/.316/.379 Rhys Hoskins (76) are the first trio of Phillies with 75 or more walks in a season since 2009 (Ryan Runs/Runs Per Game: 279/3.93 Howard, Chase Utley and Jayson Werth) … The Phils are the only team in MLB that has Home Runs: 74 multiple players with 75 or more walks in 2018. Stolen Bases: 26 ERA: 4.11 • GOOSE EGGS: Philadelphia’s bullpen owns an active 11.2-inning scoreless streak, which Starters W-L: 24-24 began in the ninth inning on September 2 vs the Cubs … They have allowed just five hits and one Starters ERA: 3.84 walk over that scoreless stretch … Since August 23, Phillies relievers have combined to post a 2.51 Relievers W-L: 7-16 ERA (12 ER, 43.0 IP) with 45 strikeouts, limiting opponents to a .208 batting average (32-154) in Relievers ERA: 4.57 that span. Saves/Opp: 15/24 • BACK IN THE CITI: In his return to Citi Field last night, Asdrubal Cabrera went 1-for-4 with an PHILLIES AT A GLANCE RBI … He has 57 extra-base hits (33 2B, 1 3B, 23 HR) this season, 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 March: 1-2 Monday: 5-10 (15; next: Hoskins, 14) … Among all National League switch hitters this season, he has April: 15-10 Tuesday: 12-9 May: 15-11 Wednesday: 12-9 the second-most extra-base hits, trailing only ATL’s Ozzie Albies (60). June: 13-14 Thursday: 12-4 July: 15-11 Friday: 12-11 • LOOK AT THE ROOKS: Since August 16, the Phillies rookie trio of Roman Quinn, Jorge Alfaro Aug: 13-14 Saturday: 11-9 and Scott Kingery have combined to bat .354 (45-127) with five doubles, four triples, five home Sept: 2-4 Sunday: 10-14 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), vs East: 28-30 Day: 24-22 Alfaro is third (.361, also 4th in MLB) and Kingery is eighth (.300). vs Cent: 19-14 Night: 50-44 st vs West: 15-14 1 Half: 53-42 • REMEMBER THE FIGHTINS: The Phillies enter play tonight 2.5 games back of the Atlanta Braves vs AL: 12-8 2nd Half: 21-24 for first place in National League East with 22 games remaining in the 2018 season … Of the 22 games remaining for the Phillies, each of the next 11 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 10 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 31-40 on the road this season, the Phillies have a .437 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 8-16 (.333) over their last 24 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. th • HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Outfielder Nick Williams is celebrating his 25 birthday today. • DOWN ON THE FARM: Lakewood RHP Spencer Howard tossed a no-hitter (9.0 IP, BB, 9 SO) last night against Kannapolis, the seventh no-hitter in BlueClaws history … With the win, Lakewood advanced to the South Atlantic League Championship Series, which begins Monday, September 10, at Lexington … Howard, who was selected by the Phillies in the second round of the June 2017 draft, led all Phillies minor league pitchers with 147 strikeouts this season. • THOME TO BE HONORED: Hall of Famer Jim Thome was recently named the 2018 recipient of the Stan Musial Lifetime Achievement Award … He will be honored at the Musial Awards in St. Louis on Saturday, November 17 … The award recognizes “an iconic sports figure who exemplifies sportsmanship and the qualities for which Stan the Man was known” … Others who have been honored with the award were Joe Torre (2014), Arnold Palmer (2015), Cal Ripken Jr. (2016) and Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2017). 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: 48-14 Last AB Decisions: 14-16 Opp. Score First: 31-45 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: 58-20 Trail After 6: 3-49 Trail After 7: 2-49 Trail After 8: 1-53 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: 60-37 Starter goes at least 7.0 28-4 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Sunday, September 9 at NYM 1:10 EDT RHP Vince Velasquez (9-10, 4.10 ERA) vs RHP Jacob deGrom (8-8, 1.68 ERA) NBCSP 2018 PHILLIES NOTES TONIGHT’S STARTER PAGE 2 ZACH EFLIN • RHP #56 EFLIN – 2018 DAY-BY-DAY Height: 6-6 Weight: 215 Age: 24 (born: 4/8/94) DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA *4/7 at PAW W, 3-1 5.0 1 1 1 0 3 5 2018: 9-6, 4.05 ERA Career: 13-16, 5.02 ERA *4/12 vs LOU W, 13-1 6.0 5 1 1 0 0 5 *4/17 vs NOR L, 6-0 5.0 4 2 1 0 2 3 LAST START: 9/1 vs CHI: L, 5.0 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 3 ER, BB, 4 SO … Eflin vs *4/23 at NOR L, 6-3 4.0 10 6 6 0 0 2 Hendricks … Nick Williams was 2-for-4 with the lone Phillies RBI and Carlos 5/1 at MIA ND, L, 2-1 6.0 3 1 1 1 0 4 1.50 Santana also collected two hits out of the leadoff spot.