The Philadelphia Phillies return to Citizens Bank Park for their penultimate homestand of 2018 in desperate need of some wins as they try
to stay in the National League East race.The second-place Phillies will play the
three teams behind them in the division during the nine-game
homestand
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right-hander Erick Fedde (1-3, 6.00) in the opener of the final series between
the teams in 2018.The Phillies have not won a series since sweeping the Marlins
in early August. Philadelphia is 11-20 since then and, at 74-68, as close as it
has been to .500 since it was 43-37 on June 29. Philadelphia’s latest loss, a
6-4 defeat against the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field, pushed
it 4 1/2 games behind the Atlanta Braves for the division’s top spot.Article
continues below ...Despite a month without a series victory, the Phillies still
have a chance to catch the Braves
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43-26 at home but just 28-32 against the rest of the NL East this season. They
have an 8-8 mark against the Nationals.“We need to turn the page quickly,”
Phillies manager Gabe Kapler told reporters after Sunday’s loss in New York.
“Looking forward to getting back to Philadelphia where we’ve played really good
baseball all year long. We will come out (Monday) having turned the page. We’re
prepared to do that.”The Nationals (71-72) enter the series with a two-game
winning streak, beating the Chicago Cubs twice before their Sunday game was
rained out. There are eight games separating the Nationals and the Braves. Fedde
will make his eighth start of the season and his second since rejoining the
Nationals after a shoulder injury sidelined him for two months. He gave up four
runs (all in the second inning) and four hits and had seven strikeouts in five
innings against the St. Louis Cardinals last Tuesday.“I think just that second
inning got away from me a little bit,” Fedde told MLB.com after the game. “I
started getting a little slider happy with some of the guys that came up, and I
think I just let it take over.”Fedde, 25, is 1-1 with a 6.55 ERA in two career
starts against the Phillies.Rhys Hoskins will try to keep his home run streak
going against Fedde and the Nationals. Hoskins homered for the third consecutive
game in Sunday’s loss. The Phillies’ 25-year-old slugger has 30 homers this
season, and he has homered in three straight games on three separate occasions
in 2018.Arrieta was strong in his last outing
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last three starts, including in a three-inning performance against the Nationals
on Aug. 29.Arrieta is 1-2 with a 5.25 ERA and a 1.567 WHIP in 12 career starts
against Washington. DENVER (AP) — Late in the game, the Colorado Rockies quickly
turned a pitchers’ duel into a one-sided slugfest.Pinch-hitter Matt Holliday
launched his first home run of the season in the seventh inning, Carlos Gonzalez
sparked an eight-run eighth with a tiebreaking double and the Rockies beat the
St. Louis Cardinals 9-1 in a matchup of NL playoff contenders Saturday.“It took
us a while to get going,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “Then it
snowballed.”The loss snapped St. Louis’ nine-game road winning streak. The
surging Cardinals had won four straight and eight of 10 overall.Holliday, out of
baseball before signing a minor league contract last month, was called up this
week by the Rockies — his original team. His homer broke up a scoreless game and
marked his first with Colorado since 2008.A seven-time All-Star who also played
for the Cardinals before joining the New York Yankees last season, Holliday
swung at a pitch in the dirt before connecting on John Gant’s next
offering
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to take a breath, kind of gather myself and kind of get back into the
situation,” Holliday said. “But that was fun. I enjoyed contributing. It was a
cool moment.”St. Louis evened the score in the eighth. Harrison Bader doubled
off Adam Ottavino to start the inning and went to third on Greg Garcia’s infield
hit. One out later, Bader raced home on a wild pitch.Ottavino (6-2) retired
Yadier Molina on a popup and struck out Jose Martinez, stranding two
runners.After making little headway against Gant, who allowed one run and three
hits in seven innings, the Rockies broke loose against the St. Louis bullpen in
the eighth. They sent 14 batters to the plate against four relievers, collecting
10 hits — five of them doubles. The Cardinals made one error during the
inning.Dakota Hudson (4-1) gave up a leadoff single to DJ LeMahieu and
successive RBI doubles to Gonzalez and Nolan Arenado before getting Trevor Story
on a groundout. The Rockies then got six straight hits against two
relievers
Pat Neshek Jersey , including LeMahieu’s second of the inning, an RBI single. Arenado also had two hits in the inning.“The way the game was going early, it
was all about pitching,” Gonzalez said. “After Holliday hit that big home run in
the seventh, we settled down. They ended up tying the game but then DJ led off
with a single. I was just trying to follow up with another single, but I was
able to drive the ball in the gap and DJ did a good job going from first to
home. After that, the rest was hit after hit.”The game began with Gant and
German Marquez alternating zeros. Marquez went seven scoreless innings, allowing
three hits — all singles. He struck out nine and walked one.Gant did not allow a
hit until Gonzalez’s two-out single in the fourth.“John Gant was
terrific
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was fantastic. Marquez was equally as good. Just a good old-fashioned pitchers’
duel in a hitters’ ballpark. We went to the bullpen and they’ve been great. One
of those days. Those days are going to happen. We’re not going to think too much
about it. Just move forward.”TRAINER’S ROOMCardinals: 2B Kolten Wong strained
his left hamstring legging out a grounder in the second. He was replaced in the
lineup by Yairo Munoz. Wong is day to day.UP NEXTCardinals: LHP Austin Gomber
(3-0, 2.98 ERA) is slated to start Sunday’s series finale. He’ll try to become
the first Cardinals left-hander to win at Coors Field since Kent Mercker beat
Darryl Kyle and the Rockies 10-2 on July 24, 1999.Rockies: LHP Tyler Anderson
(6-6, 4.45) is 0-3 with an 8.44 ERA over his last five starts.
