Philadelphia - For the second consecutive night, the game-changing play was rooted in left field.
Friday night it was a misplayed fly ball by Ryan Braun, football jerseys
who thought he heard centerfielder Lorenzo Cain call him off, that fell for a double and eventually led to the winning run. Braun was not charged with an error, but the 1-0 defeat could have been placed at his feet.
This time, the mistake was much less Braun's fault, but he was charged with the error and because of it the winning run once again crossed as the Philadelphia Phillies took another game, 5-4, from the Milwaukee Brewers at Citizens Bank Park.
The Brewers have lost five straight and dropped this one despite keeping Phillies ace Roy Halladay from a quality start for the first time since Aug. 8. Carrying a one-run lead into the bottom of the seventh inning, righthander Kameron Loe allowed consecutive singles to Shane Victorino and Carlos Ruiz. Left-hander Zach Braddock replaced him and walked pinch-hitter Wilson Valdez on four pitches before getting Jimmy Rollins to hit into a fielder's choice, with Victorino forced out at the plate.
With one out and the bases still packed, Placido Polanco hit a fly ball to medium left field. Braun caught the ball and threw home as Ruiz, not the fleetest of foot, tagged from third. The throw tailed toward the foul side of the plate, and in an effort to avoid a collision at the plate, catcher Jonathan Lucroy moved to the infield side and the ball skipped to the backstop. Ruiz scored, and as Braddock retrieved and threw the ball home, Valdez came around and slid under Lucroy's tag for the go-ahead run.
"The throw was a little bit up the line and I was in front of home plate," Lucroy said. "The ball kind of went behind the runner and he came inside the line like he was going to hit me and I lost the ball for a second. I jumped out of the way and the ball went by.
"I made a mistake. I should have been deeper on the plate. I should have went to my left instead of my right. I just didn't see it because it was behind the runner." Manager Ken Macha said Lucroy should have conceded the run and went up the line to cut off the throw, but Lucroy tried to stay in to make a play until the last second and it ended up costing the Brewers the game.
The offense tagged Halladay for four home runs - Prince Fielder, Alcides Escoleaving bar and two by Corey Hart - the most he has allowed to any team this season.
The first two homers, second-inning blasts by Fielder and Escobar, made Halladay look San Diego Chargers jersey
vulnerable and turned a pitching matchup surely favoring the Phillies before the game into a push.
But Brewers right-hander Dave Bush has had problems keeping the ball in the yard and it persisted against the Phillies as they got Bush for back-to-back shots in the bottom of the second to tie the score, 2-2. Ryan Howard hit the first and Jayson Werth got the second.
The Brewers bounced back on Hart's first homer in the third, thanks to Halladay a fastball right down the middle. But once again Bush couldn't hold the lead. He walked leadoff hitter Jimmy Rollins, who later scored on a single by Chase Utley to make it a 3-3 game.
Bush would leave after six innings with that score intact, but Halladay would not. He went one more inning and hung a curveball to Hart that he hit for a wall-scraping homer to left-center, leaving Halladay in line for his third consecutive loss in as many starts.
But it was not to be as that bottom half of the inning came back to sink the Brewers and give Halladay the victory.
"It would have been nice to put up zeros after we scored to give a chance to extend the lead," Bush said. "That's always frustrating, but even after the third run I was able to put up three scoreless innings and give us a chance to take the lead again.
"It wasn't the sharpest I pitched all year but we had a chance to win the game against one of Chicago Bears jersey
the best pitchers in the game.".
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