Game Wrap 5/9/2018: Phillies 11 Giants 3

You expect to have a team coming off their first series sweep of the season on the road against the hottest team in baseball to have a 1 game letdown in the first game in the next city.  Not only did the Giants do a full faceplant in their letdown game, it's 2 games later and they still haven't pulled their faces out of the mud!  They have now been outscored 26-5 by the Phillies over the first 3 games of the series and are not staring a 4-game sweep in the face.  Key Lines:

Evan Longoria 3B- 2 for 3, 2 2B.  BA= .248.  The Giants got 7 other hits, but Longoria had the only XBH's of the game for the Orange and Black.

Chris Stratton RHP- 4.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 4 BB, 7 K's.  ERA= 4.60.  The 7 K's say he must have had good stuff, but the 4 BB's say his command was off.  Two disaster starts out of the last 3 for Stratton.  Time to dig deep and make the readjustment.

Derek Law RHP- 2.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K's.  ERA= 7.00.  Didn't Derek Law give up 4 runs in less than an inning in AAA a few days ago?  As Vin Scully would say, "go figure!".

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The Loss dropped the 3'rd place Giants 6 games behind the NL West leading D'Backs pending the outcome of the D'Backs game with the Dodgers.  The Rockies lost to the Angels and sit 4 games behind the Snakes, while the last place Padres try to avoid being no-hit by the Nationals as they sit 12 games behind the leaders.

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Ty Blach tries to salvage 1 win out of the 4-game series tomorrow afternoon facing Vince Velasquez who runs hot and cold.