Phillies Fall To Brewers 7-4
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jonathan Lucroy had four of the Brewers' season high-tying 16 hits and drove in two runs, leading Milwaukee to a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night in a matchup of the two worst teams in baseball.
Ryan Braun had three hits with a double and an RBI, and Adam Lind and Aramis Ramirez each had a pair of RBIs for the Brewers, who have won five of seven to improve to 30-48.
Cesar Hernandez had a pair of hits and an RBI for Philadelphia.
The Phillies fell to a major league-worst 27-51 hours after the Phillies introduced Andy MacPhail as the new man in charge of the club.
The veteran baseball executive joined the Phillies with plans to take over as team president after this season. He'll eventually replace Pat Gillick, who helped choose his successor. MacPhail will serve as a special assistant to Gillick for the rest of this season, then take over all business and baseball operations.
Jimmy Nelson (5-8) won consecutive starts for the first time this season despite giving up four runs and six hits in five innings.
Sean O'Sullivan (1-6) continued his season-long struggles, allowing a season-high 12 hits while giving up six runs in five innings.
Philadelphia was up 4-1 through two innings, but Milwaukee cut the lead to 4-2 on Lind's sacrifice fly in the third and got another run back in the fifth on Braun's RBI double.
The Brewers went in front with three runs in the sixth. Four straight hits to start the inning ended the night for O'Sullivan, who has one victory in 12 starts this season.
Ramirez, pinch hitting for Nelson, put the Brewers ahead 5-4 with a two-run double to right and Lucroy made it a two-run game with an RBI single to left. And Lucroy's RBI single in the eighth made it 7-4.
Francisco Rodriguez pitched a scoreless ninth for his 16th save in 16 chances.
Lucroy and Braun both enjoy hitting at Citizens Bank Park. Lucroy is batting .500 (22 for 44) in 11 games while Braun is hitting .418 (38 for 91) in 23 games.
Lind extended his hitting streak to nine consecutive games with a first-inning double. He is batting .419 during the streak.
Brewers left-hander Will Smith pitched a perfect eighth inning, extending his scoreless streak to 16 1-3 innings.
Center fielder Carlos Gomez helped Smith by robbing Maikel Franco of extra bases with a leaping catch against the wall in left-center. Franco stopped in his tracks in between first and second and put his hands on his hips in mock disgust, drawing a smile back from his fellow countryman. Both are natives of the Dominican Republic.
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