PHILADELPHIA — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. extending the longest lively hitting streak within the majors to fifteen video games with a homer, double and two RBIs because the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 Monday night time.
Pavin Smith additionally homered for the Diamondbacks, who’ve gained eight of their final 10 video games and 5 of seven on their nine-game journey to Oakland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
Kyle Schwarber and Bryson Stott hit solo homers for the Phillies, who’ve misplaced six of their final eight video games.
Gurriel, acquired by Arizona over the winter in a three-player commerce with Toronto, went 4 for 4 and improved his common to .321. During his hitting streak, Gurriel has a .416 common (25 for 60) with six doubles, seven homers and 14 RBIs. On the highway this season, Gurriel is hitting .351 (19 for 54) with three doubles, 4 homers and 9 RBIs in his final 13 video games.
“I feel very comfortable,” Gurriel stated. “The hitting coaches have worked great with me and we have had a very good communication together.”
In the second inning, Gurriel linked on a dangling sweeper from Phillies ace Zack Wheeler, driving the ball into the left-center area seats for his eighth homer of the season. He capped off the night time with a scorching liner simply inside the primary base bag within the eighth inning, scoring Christian Walker with an insurance coverage run after Philadelphia had closed inside 4-3.
“He’s just a great hitter and its fun to watch the approach,” Arizona supervisor Torey Lovullo stated. “He gets a slider middle-up and middle-in and hits it for the big home run. And when these guys go out and perform at an elite level, I have a front row seat and it’s awful fun for me.”
Wheeler (3-4) was slowed by a fielding error by Stott on a potential Gabriel Moreno double play ball within the second. It proved expensive when Geraldo Perdomo doubled into the fitting area nook, scoring two runs.
Schwarber and Stott reduce the deficit to at least one run with solo homers within the fourth inning off Diamondbacks left-hander Tommy Henry (2-1). Smith answered within the fifth with a leadoff solo shot off Wheeler, who allowed eight hits and three earned runs throughout his six innings of labor.
“I thought he was better than the line,” Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson stated. “The Gurriel home run and the (Smith) home run were one of the few balls that were hard hit. Maybe Perdomo’s ball as well, but there were a lot of soft hits. They did a nice job to get his pitch count up, but he fought through six and that was huge for us.”
Trea Turner ended an 0-for-22 hunch with runners in scoring place when he hit an RBI single within the seventh for the Phillies.
Henry allowed 4 hits, together with the 2 solo homers, and struck out 5. He had 18 swings and misses amongst his 93 pitches. Andrew Chafin picked up his seventh save of the season.
TRAINERS ROOM
Phillies: LHP Jose Alvarado (left elbow irritation) threw off flat floor throughout pre-game work at Citizens Bank Park on Monday. If he feels nicely sufficient on Tuesday after a calm down day, supervisor Rob Thomson stated that the Phillies would anticipate the reliever to work within the bullpen on Wednesday for the primary of two anticipated aspect periods earlier than heading out on a rehab outing. … INF Edmundo Sosa was held out of the beginning lineup on Monday after experiencing tightness in his calf heading again to the primary base bag. He did pinch-hit within the ninth inning, placing out.
UP NEXT
The groups will meet within the second recreation of a three-game set on Tuesday night time. Arizona will ship RHP Ryne Nelson (1-2, 5.48 ERA) to the mound. The Phillies will go together with a bullpen recreation, beginning with reliever Matt Strahm (4-3, 2.73) and certain turning to the newly acquired Dylan Covey (0-0, 4.50 ERA) dealing with the majority of the innings.
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