PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (59-70) vs. NEW YORK METS (66-63) Sunday, August 28, 2016 – Citi Field – 1:10 p.m. – Game 130; Road 67 RHP Vince Velasquez (8-6, 4.31) vs. RHP Robert Gsellman (1-0, 0.00) LAST NIGHT’S ACTION: The Phillies lost to the Mets, 12-1, at Citi Field … Starter Jeremy Hellickson allowed 5 runs on 7 hits in 4.0 innings of work … The Phils took a 1-0 lead in the 3rd inning on a solo PHILLIES PHACTS home run by Freddy Galvis … The lead did not last long as the Mets struck in the bottom of the inning Record: 59-70 (.457) with a 2-run blast off the bat of Asdrubel Cabrera … The following inning, Yoenis Cespedes slammed a Home: 30-33 3-run shot to expand New York’s lead to 5-1 … The Phillies’ bullpen allowed 6 runs in the 7th inning Road: 29-37 with the big blow coming off the bat of pinch hitter Kelly Johnson as he went deep for a grand slam … Current Streak: Lost 2 th Last 5 Games: 1-4 Neil Walker added a solo shot in the 8 inning. Last 10 Games: 3-7 Series Record: 15-22-5 A DIFFERENT KIND OF CYCLE: Last night, the Phillies allowed a solo HR, a 2-run HR, a 3-run HR Sweeps/Swept: 5/6 and a grand slam – the “cycle of home runs” … According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the last time the Phils did that was May 17, 1979 at Wrigley Field in the infamous “23-22 game” that was won by the PHILLIES VS. METS Phillies … The Phillies blasted five homers that day and the Cubs hit six, including three by Dave 2016 Record: 4-6 Kingman … Current Phillies bench coach Larry Bowa started at shortstop for the Phils and went 5-for-8 2016 at Home: 2-4 with two doubles, an RBI and four runs scored … Finally, the last time any major league team allowed 2016 at NYM: 2-3 the “cycle of home runs” was the Reds earlier this season on April 21 against, of course, the Cubs. All-Time Record: 490-451-1 All-Time at Citizens Bank Park: 52-65 ALL YOU NEED IS GLOVE: The Phillies have played nine straight games without making an error … All-Time at Citi Field: 33-36 It is the longest errorless streak for the club in over two years … They played 10 straight errorless Current Streak: Lost 3 games from June 13-22, 2014 … That streak was broken in the top of the 9th inning on June 23 at Citizens Bank Park when the Phillies committed two errors in the inning – one by pitcher Antonio PHILLIES ON THE ROAD Bastardo and one by second baseman Chase Utley … Additionally, the Phillies have played 32 straight Games Played: 66 games without more than one error … The last time they made more than one error in a game was Record: 29-37 (.439) July 21 vs. MIA (Cody Asche & Freddy Galvis). Batting Average: .252 LOOKING AHEAD: Following today’s game at Citi Field the Phillies head home for a 6-game Runs/Runs Per Game: 273/4.1 Home Runs: 69 homestand against WSH (3 G) and ATL (3 G) … The Phils are in the midst of 16 straight games Stolen Bases: 36 against NL East teams (0-2) … Starting tomorrow, 18 of the Phillies’ final 32 games are at home. ERA: 5.26 CLIMBING THE TEAM LEADERBOARDS: Last night Ryan Howard appeared in game #1,552, Starters W-L: 21-25 moving him sole possession of 7th place on the Phillies’ all-time list … Next up is Del Ennis in 6th place Starters ERA: 5.48 with 1,630 games played for the Phillies … Howard currently ranks in the Phillies’ all-time Top 10 in Relievers W-L: 9-11 home runs (2nd; 376), RBI (2nd; 1,178), extra-base hits (3rd; 672), total bases (5th; 2,908), slugging % Relievers ERA: 4.88 th th th th th Saves/Opp: 19/27 (4 ; .515), sacrifice flies (4 ; 55), walks (7 ; 703), games (7 ; 1,552), doubles (10 ; 275) and at-bats (10th; 5,649). PHILLIES AT A GLANCE RYAN POWERED: Ryan Howard currently has 376 career home runs, which ties him for 75th place on April: 14-10 Monday: 4-11 MLB’s all-time list with Carlton Fisk … He needs one more home run to tie Jeff Kent and Norm Cash for May: 12-16 Tuesday: 9-10 73rd place and two more tie Matt Williams for 72nd place … Howard’s 13 major leauge seasons are 3rd- June: 9-19 Wednesday: 11-9 July: 13-14 Thursday: 6-7 fewest for any player in the Top 80 of MLB’s all-time home run list … Only Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner Aug: 11-11 Friday: 9-12 (369 HR in 10 seasons) and Albert Belle (381 in 12 seasons) had fewer seasons. Sept: 0-0 Saturday: 10-11 Oct: 0-0 Sunday: 10-10 BABY BASH BROS.: Last night, Phillies prospect Rhys Hoskins, of double-A Reading, hit his 37th home run of the season and knocked in his 111th run … Hoskins and teammate Dylan Cozens (37 HR) vs East: 22-27 Day: 19-27 currently lead BAL’s Mark Trumbo (39) and Manny Machado (31) for the most home runs in vs Cent: 10-19 Night: 40-43 st professional baseball between two teammates … Cozens and Hoskins have homered in the same game vs West: 18-15 1 Half: 42-48 vs AL: 9-9 2nd Half: 17-22 13 times this season while hitting back-to-back home runs five times … Cozens currently ranks 2nd in all of professional baseball with 114 RBI while Hoskins is 4th as they trail Kyle Jensen of Reno (117 RBI) … COL’s Nolan Arenado of the Colorado Rockies currently has 108 RBI … Reading’s team record INSTANT REPLAY RESULTS *Manager’s challenges, since 2014 for home runs is 38 by Darin Ruf in 2012 and for RBI is 120 by Greg Luzinski in 1970. PHI All-Time Challenges: 104 SAVE THE DATE: With one more save, Phillies closer Jeanmar Gomez will become just the 7th Overturned: 57 Success Rate: 54.8% pitcher in franchise history to collect 35 or more saves in a single season … Only Jose Mesa (45 & 42 SV’s), Mitch Williams (43), Brad Lidge (41), Steve Bedrosian (40), Jonathan Papelbon (39 & 38) and 2016 Challenges: 35 Billy Wagner (38) have done so … Gomez had converted only one save in his entire career before the Overturned: 21 2016 season, which came with the Pittsburgh Pirates in an 11 inning game on July 12, 2014 vs CIN. Success Rate: 60.0% Last Challenge: 8/23 at CWS RISP-Y BUSINESS: Over their last 10 games (since 8/16), the Phillies have collected only 12 hits Situation: B5, no outs, runner on 1B with runners in scoring position, including just three extra-base hits (2 2B, HR) … Their .1674(12-73) Result: OVERTURNED; the Replay Official average with RISP during that period is the worst in MLB … They have left 69 men on base in those definitively determined that the fielder nine games as well (6.9 AVG per game) … Overall this season, Philadelphia has the 2nd-lowest average tagged the runner prior to the runner st with RISP in the majors (.225) … Only the Mets have fared worse at .216. contacting 1 base. Runner is out. THIS DATE IN PHILLIES HISTORY: 1987 – Eventual Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt hit career home run #522 off of San Diego's Ed Whitson at Jack Murphy Stadium to move past Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Willy McCovey for 9th place on Major League Baseball’s all-time list … Current Phillies Third Base Coach Juan Samuel started at 2nd base and led off for the Phillies that day. PHILLIES RECORD WHEN THEY… Score First: 40-24 Lead After 6: 39-8 Lead After 7: 46-7 Lead After 8: 51-5 Out-Hit Opp: 39-8 Last AB Decisions: 10-10 Opp. Score First: 19-46 Tied After 6: 12-10 Tied After 7: 8-5 Tied After 8: 7-4 Hits equal: 7-6 Walk-off Decisions: 4-4 Score 4 or more: 45-19 Trail After 6: 8-52 Trail After 7: 5-58 Trail After 8: 1-61 Out-Hit by Opp: 13-56 Starter goes > 6.0 IP 18-11 Score 3 or less: 14-51 Hit no HR: 9-33 Starter goes 6.0 IP 24-18 Hit at least 1 HR: 51-36 Starter goes < 6.0 IP 17-40 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE DATE TIME PROBABLE PITCHERS TV Monday, August 29 vs. WSH 7:05 PM RHP Jake Thompson (1-3, 9.78) vs. TBA CSN Tuesday, August 30 vs. WSH 7:05 PM RHP Jerad Eickhoff (9-12 3.87) vs. TBA CSN Wednesday, August 31 vs. WSH 7:05 PM LHP Adam Morgan (1-8, 6.50) vs. TBA CSN 2016 PHILLIES NOTES TODAY’S STARTER PAGE 2 VINCE VELASQUEZ RHP #28 VELASQUEZ – 2016 DAY-BY-DAY DATE-OPP DECISION IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA Height: 6-3 Weight: 205 Age: 24 (born: 6/7/92) 4/9 at NYM W, 1-0 6.0 3 0 0 0 3 9 0.00 2016: 8-6, 4.31 ERA Career: 9-7, 4.33 ERA 4/14 vs SD W, 3-0 9.0 3 0 0 0 0 16 0.00 4/19 vs NYM L, 11-1 4.1 5 5 2 2 0 4 0.93 LAST START: 8/21 vs STL: L, 6.0 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 HR, 2 BB, 7 SO … 4/26 at WSH W, 4-3 6.0 5 3 3 0 3 4 1.78 Velasquez vs Leake … Phillies lost, 9-0 … Brandon Moss gave the Cardinals an APRIL 3-1 25.1 16 8 5 2 6 33 1.78 early 1-0 lead with a sac fly in the 1st inning … St.