That would be all that Colorado would get, but with the way Cal Quantrill was keeping the Phillies off balance to begin the game, it looked like a decent start. The Phillies would threaten in the fourth. Trying to capitalize on an error, they put two men on with one out and brought Bohm to the plate. As he has done often, he delivered, bringing home Kyle Schwarber and getting the Phillies on the board.
The threat was shortlived as Bryson Stott hit the next pitch to second for a rally killing double play. In the fifth, Johan Rojas lashed a two out single to drive home Brandon Marsh and make the game a 5-2 affair.
Quantrill, though, kept his game, putting the Phillies at arms length and making sure the lead kept intact.
A shame, really, as Suarez settled himself down quite well and put zeroes on the board for the rest of the game, making sure his offense was close enough to make a comeback a viable option.
But, as I said at the beginning, it just was not the team’s day.
It’s their first series loss since Cincinnati came to town in early April, a testament to how well this team has played all year long. They were due for a stinker and in the strange environment that is Denver, it finally came to pass. They’ll move on to San Francisco, where they’ll hope to get back on track against a, what’s this now, a .500 team?
Is that allowed?
Sometimes, you just know when a game isn’t going to go your way.
I’ve spoken many a time about how this Phillies team doesn’t ever really feel like they’re out of a game. Whatever it may be on that given night - the starting pitching, an offense that pounces on mistakes, a bullpen that locks up the opposition - the team always has this feel that they’re in it until the postgame show begins.
Today, that never really felt like the case.
We know Ranger Suarez is human. Some may attest to this falsehood based on his season thus far, but he is in fact one that is fallible. Today, Suarez met the unforgiving beast that is Coors Field, the fickle master that teases pitchers into thinking their safe. For the first two innings, Suarez struggled to tame her, losing his pinpoint control that he is so well known for.
The first inning, he fell victim to the airflow that plagues so many of his pitching brethren, giving up a home run on a pitch that really wasn’t all that bad.
From there, the gods that are “base ball” decided that Suarez’s command, the thing Suarez has supposedly mastered this year, would be no more. In the second inning, two walks - TWO WALKS - were the bane of his day that brought Hunter Goodman up with two men on. Goodman delivered, doubling in Brenton Doyle and putting runners now on second and third with one out. Ezequial Tovar walked to load the bases, but a groundball would get them out of it further unscathed.
Alec Bohm was having none of that.
A groundball hit to him was a little too hot to handle, negating a possible double play. Bohm was able to get one out but decided to play hero and failed.
Phillies Starting Pitcher Ranger Suarez
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