Philadelphia Phillies Stumble in Twin Cities, Fall 7-2
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00:00It hasn't been a great first four games for baseball's best team, at least record-wise.
00:08That's the Philadelphia Phillies.
00:10Yesterday, a slight road favorite in the Twin Cities against the Twins.
00:15Minnesota gets a win, 7-2 over Philadelphia yesterday.
00:19The Phils took an early lead.
00:21Bryce Harper hit a two-run shot in the top of the first.
00:24Minnesota answers with seven unanswered.
00:27Not a great outing once more out of Ranger Suarez.
00:30Not terrible, but just not as elite as he was earlier in the year.
00:35Five and a third three-earned run and seven hits given up.
00:40Minnesota wins the opener against the Phils, 7-2.
00:43Yeah, Phillies got crushed in this game.
00:45No way to beat around the bush.
00:46Ranger Suarez, you're right, wasn't good, wasn't great.
00:48Just average.
00:49And sometimes average should be good enough with that Phillies lineup, and you couldn't
00:52have started any better.
00:53You had Bryce Harper with a two-run bomb in the first inning, 2-0.
00:56Gave Ranger Suarez a little bit of heat moving forward, and he did have a shutdown inning
00:59in the first and second, but then the bottom sort of fell out.
01:02But once it was so much going to look at the Phillies pitching, right, giving up the seven
01:06runs, let's take that out of the equation.
01:08You're not going to win very many baseball games.
01:09You get one base hit or your final 27 batters.
01:12So they went ice cold after that Harper home run, and quite frankly, that's the most disturbing
01:17thing about this game.
01:18Not Ranger Suarez.
01:19You're hoping to bounce back here.
01:21Not a great performance, but then again, I guess the Phillies sometimes need to light
01:25a fire under you because the Atlanta Braves look like they're just going to careen out
01:29of control and not put any pressure on the Phillies, but you still have to win some of
01:32these games against quality opponents.
01:34The Phillies will.
01:35They have 63 wins on the season.
01:36They will be fine.
01:37Yesterday, getting up 2-0, you thought that was a great start.
01:40It wasn't.
01:41That was a bad game for the Phillies overall.