Phils score 12 vs Nats, biggest 1st inning in team history

Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper (34) celebrates with teammate Daniel Murphy after hitting a two run home run in the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia, Friday, April 7, 2017.

“What I’m happy about is the velocity he showed in spring training, which hopefully means that his arm is healthy”, said Mackanin.

The 12 runs in the first inning were the second most runs that the Phillies have ever scored in an inning in their 134-year franchise history. Rupp only had two hits in his first 11.

Howie Kendrick went 2-5 with a double.

Michael Saunders drove in a pair of runs. Soft strokes, though, considering the early hour.

There was no indication initially given on the severity of the injury or how much time Turner could miss. “He needs to level his swing off”. It’s tough to put my finger on it.

“I’m anxious to see him pitch, see what he does”. Mackanin, however, was not concerned about the starting-pitcher matchup, and was anxious to see how Velasquez fared. I don’t think so. Then he just didn’t seem to be able to do that when he wasn’t pitching as well.

“It was real hard, but I had to do what I had to do for the team”, Baker said.

“We’ll have to find out what we have to do to get better”, Franco said try to find out what I have to do to drive a run in.

Liriano faced only eight batters, walking four and giving up three hits before getting pulled. Franco has a pitch right there yesterday and he popped it up. Saturday’s start will fade into memory soon enough-except for Guthrie, perhaps-but losing Turner for any length of time would be a real blow.

Nah, it’s never easy, this hitting game.

PADRES 7, GIANTS 6: Rookie Manuel Margot hit his first two big league homers and Yangervis Solarte had a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh inning in a win at San Diego. Velasquez displayed his electrifying arsenal of pitches at times Friday and struck out 10 batters, but he walked three and gave up four earned runs through four innings.

Hyun Soo Kim hit a tiebreaking RBI single off Dellin Betances in the seventh inning after a rare stolen base by slugger Mark Trumbo, and the Baltimore Orioles remained the only unbeaten team in the majors by rallying past the New York Yankees 5-4 Saturday. Tomorrow is a different day. Over the last two days, all of their runs have come via the home run ball. Unucky bounce for the Phils, as the run Stassi represented would later loom fairly large. Nothing unusual about that. “It’s one of those games that you love to be on our side”, Mackanin said. “But it’s up to the pitcher to make pitches”.

Jeanmar Gomez worked a clean ninth. On a day where the Phillies right-hander had ten strikeouts, both hitters waited for their pitch and made him pay for the mistake.

And they hit them a long, long way. In 73 games, he had a.342/.370/.567 slash line to go with 13 home runs and 40 RBI. I had to tell myself to lock it in.

“But he had a lot of success”. They never knew what pitch was coming next. Today would be a golden opportunity for him to flip the switch against a pitcher like Guthrie.