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 The Phillies nonetheless continued their mastery of the Cubs on
Sunday afternoon, beating Chicago 7-4.
"It's nice to beat a good team like the Cubs," Philadelphia interim
manager Pete Mackanin said after his team closed out the season
series against the Cubs with its fifth victory in seven games.
A wild pitch by Cubs reliever Clayton Richard brought home the
go-ahead run in the seventh inning, as the Phillies earned a split
of their four-game series.
"I'm just glad we're not in the same division as the Phillies,"
Chicago manager Joe Maddon said.
First baseman Ryan Howard homered and drove in three runs for the
Phillies, and shortstop Freddy Galvis went 3-for-5 with a two-run
double.
Philadelphia also won its second straight since Mackanin's pep talk
to his players on Saturday. Sunday's starting pitcher, Aaron Harang,
said it is important for such a young team to embrace the spoilers'
role.
"That's what makes the rest of your season go along - trying to be
the spoiler," Harang said, "especially when we play a group like the
Cubs, right in the hunt of it."
Right fielder Chris Coghlan went 4-for-5 with a homer and two
triples for the Cubs, who lead the race for the National League's
second wild-card spot.
With the score tied 4-4, Philadelphia left fielder Aaron Altherr
tripled with one out in the seventh. Howard struck out, but with a
1-0 count on catcher Cameron Rupp, Richard (3-2) uncorked his wild
pitch, allowing Altherr to score.
Shortstop Freddy Galvis added a two-run double off reliever Carl
Edwards Jr. in the ninth for Philadelphia.
Reliever Dario Hinojosa (1-0) earned his first major-league victory
for the Phillies. Ken Giles pitched the ninth for his 13th save.
Coghlan tripled and with two outs in the first he scored on a single
by third baseman Kris Bryant, but the Phillies answered with two
runs off Cubs starter Dan Haren in the bottom of that inning, on
Howard's sacrifice fly and Rupp's RBI single.
Howard's two-run homer in the third gave the Phillies a 4-1 lead. It
was his 22nd homer of the season.
Cubs shortstop Addison Russell had an RBI single in the fourth, and
Coghlan hit a solo homer off Harang in the fifth, cutting the gap to
4-3. It was Coghlan's 16th homer this season.
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The Cubs knotted it with the help of two Phillies errors in the
seventh. Russell reached on a bad throw by shortstop Freddy Galvis
to start the inning, and scored when second baseman Cesar Hernandez
bobbled a two-out grounder by first baseman Anthony Rizzo.
Harang went five innings and allowed three runs and six hits, while
striking out five and walking one. It was the eighth time in his
last 10 starts he has failed to throw more than six innings, after
going six or more in 15 of his first 16 outings.
Haren, 0-5 with a 6.57 ERA in seven career starts in Citizens Bank
Park, gave up four runs and seven hits in just three innings of
work, while striking out four and walking three.
NOTES: Phillies second baseman Cesar Hernandez left the game with a
dislocated left thumb after colliding with Cubs 1B Anthony Rizzo
following Hernandez's seventh-inning error. Interim manager Pete
Mackanin said Hernandez will see a hand specialist Monday and added
that "it doesn't look good for the rest of the year." ... The two
triples by Cubs RF Chris Coghlan were a career high. ... With a
triple and double on Sunday, Philadelphia LF Aaron Altherr now has
12 extra-base hits among the 19 hits he has accumulated in 23 games
since his promotion from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Aug. 18. ...
Phillies RF Brian Bogusevic made two exceptional catches, the first
one a diving grab of a liner by Chicago CF Dexter Fowler in the
third, the second a running snag of a liner into the corner by 3B
Kris Bryant. ... The walk-off homer by Philadelphia 3B Cody Asche in
Saturday's 7-5 victory over the Cubs came on the one-year
anniversary of his first career walk-off homer. According to the
Elias Sports Bureau, Asche is only the fifth major leaguer in the
last 40 years to hit walk-off homers in consecutive seasons.
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