It was a pitchers duel between Cole Hamels and Andrew Miller on Wednesday night and unfortunately, the Phillies were on the losing end as they lost to the Florida Marlins by the score of 6-2. Well I should say it was a pitching duel until the ninth inning lol.
Starting pitcher Hamels tossed eight innings for the Phillies. He gave up three hits and two runs in the game and earned a much better decision then the no decision that he got. Any time a starting pitcher throws eight innings and only gives up three runs, he should have got the win. It’s too bad that the offense had so much trouble until the ninth inning.
In the ninth inning however, the Phillies were able to come back and score one run to tie the game. Chase Utley tied the game with a rbi fielders choice as he beat out what would have been a game ending double play. Utley finished the game with two rbi for the Phillies. Utley singled in the seventh inning to score Shane Victorino for his first rbi. Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell were both hitless as they went 0-3 on the night.
With the game tied at 2-2 in the ninth inning, the Marlins came back to score four times in the inning as Dan Uggla hit a walk off grand slam off of Tom Gordon who took the loss. Gordon has to feel very bad as all four runs were charged to him and he just didn’t get the job done.
