Phillies Lose To Rockies, 6-2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wilin Rosario hit a go-ahead, three-run homer and Jorge De La Rosa pitched six strong innings to lift the Colorado Rockies to a 6-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night.
Drew Stubbs went 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI for the Rockies, who had lost four of five while being outscored 16-0 in their two previous games.
Ben Revere hit his first career homer in his 1,466th at-bat, and Darin Ruf also went deep for the Phillies.
The start of the game was delayed 1 hour, 22 minutes due to rain.
De La Rosa (6-3) continued his strong stretch, allowing one run and six hits with four strikeouts and two walks. The left-hander is 6-0 with a 1.58 ERA in his last seven starts.
Philadelphia starter Cole Hamels (1-3) was cruising along until walking consecutive batters with one out in the seventh. After Justin Morneau flied out for the second out, Rosario broke out of a slump by lifting Hamels' first pitch just over the wall in right to give Colorado a 4-1 lead. He had been 0 for 15 before the homer, his sixth in 10 career games at Citizens Bank Park.
Hamels left after the seventh after giving up four runs and three hits with four strikeouts and those two walks.
Revere's one-out homer off left-handed reliever Boone Logan in the seventh just cleared the wall in right to pull Philadelphia within 4-2. Revere pointed skyward after crossing the plate, then grinned while receiving congratulations from Jimmy Rollins before entering a silent dugout. His teammates relented after a minute or so and mobbed the smiling Revere.
Ruf's fourth-inning homer to left tied the game at 1 and halted De La Rosa's scoreless streak at 15 1-3 innings. Ruf was starting at first base in place of left-handed slugger Ryan Howard, who sat against the lefty starter despite going 3 for 4 with a homer and five RBIs in Philadelphia's 9-0 win over Colorado on Monday and knocking in 14 runs in his last nine games against the Rockies.
It was the first homer of the season for Ruf, who was activated from the disabled list last Wednesday after recovering from a left oblique strain.
Howard pinch hit with one out and two on in the eighth against righty Adam Ottavino and grounded into an inning-ending double play. It was the 58th double play of the season for the Rockies, who led the majors in that category entering Tuesday.
De La Rosa got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the third when he got Revere to ground out, Rollins to pop out and Chase Utley to fly out.
Colorado got on the board first with a run in the fourth on Troy Tulowitzki's hard-hit sacrifice fly. Tulowitzki, the NL batting leader who entered hitting .447 off lefties, went 0 for 2 against Hamels.
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