Didi’s slam holds up in victory
PHILADELPHIA » Didi Gregorius hit his eighth career grand slam and the Phillies beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Wednesday night for their third straight win.
The Phillies won three straight games for the first time since they started the season 4-0.
Enyel De Los Santos — on the lineup card for this one — left two runners stranded to end the eighth. José Alvarado returned from a two-game suspension for triggering a bench-clearing incident and worked a scoreless ninth for his second save.
Brandon Kintzler (2-1) tossed 1.1 scoreless innings for the win.
Gregorius’ slam off Freddy Peralta (3-1) highlighted a five-run first inning, and six
pitchers preserved the win. Gregorius has three grand slams in 86 career games with the Phillies.
Rhys Hoskins hit an RBI single in the first, and Peralta allowed five runs over
the first five batters.
But the Brewers rallied on another chilly, windy night at Citizens Bank Park. Avisail Garcia hit an RBI single in the third inning that was almost more, but a replay review overturned a safe call at the plate. More than 10,000 fans cheered each time a replay showed Daniel Vogelbach was out on center fielder Odubel Herrera’s throw, and a brief review took the run off the board.
Tyrone Taylor connected for a pinch-hit homer in the fifth against Chase Anderson, and Garcia added a tworun single off Jojo Romero that cut it to 5-4.
Anderson, who was 38-27 with a 3.83 ERA in four seasons with the Brewers, departed after 4.1 innings.
LINEUP SNAFU
Phillies manager Joe Girardi took the blame for a lineup mix-up a night earlier when De Los Santos, called up from the minors earlier in the day, came out of the bullpen to pitch the seventh but was denied entry by umpires because he didn’t appear on their lineup card.
“My hope is that we can just print out our own cards and exchange them again,” he said. “Hopefully we can get to that. In our system here, we had all the moves done. It was on the board and it was on our lineup card, but not on my little lineup card, the official lineup card. Hopefully we can get back to that so we don’t have to deal with this.”