MILWAUKEE — In the midst of it all, as Blake Perkins lapped the bases and Bernie Brewer barreled down his slide and another sold-out crowd roared, Cristopher Sánchez lowered his head.
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It turns out the Phillies’ ace is fallible after all.
One out from escaping the fourth inning here Sunday, two days after Brewers rival Jacob Misiorowski pitched the best game in baseball this season, Sánchez gave up a back-breaking three-run homer on a slider, his third-best pitch.
Blake Perkins mashes a 3-run homer! pic.twitter.com/TZgfpJwkci
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That’s one way to beat Sánchez. Here’s another: Start a left-hander against the Phillies, who came up with three hits off Kyle Harrison and four overall in a rubber-game 4-0 loss to the powerhouse Brewers.
Misiorowski and Harrison bookended the series, allowing a total of four hits in 15 scoreless innings. The Phillies were shut out in both games. Three of their seven whitewashings have come against left-handed starting pitchers, Harrison becoming the latest to stymie them.
The Phillies are 38-33, including 29-14 under interim manager Don Mattingly. But they’re only 3-9 against the Brewers, Dodgers, and Braves, the cream of the National League crop.
Sánchez had a chance to answer Misiorowski’s one-hit, 15-strikeout masterpiece Friday night. Entering the game, Sánchez’s 1.54 ERA trailed only Misiorowski’s 1.34 mark in what could be an epic NL Cy Young race.
But after permitting one homer in 59⅔ innings over his previous eight starts, Sánchez gave up two against the Brewers.
Jackson Chourio hit Sánchez’s fourth pitch of the game out to straightaway center field. And with two on and two out in the fourth, Perkins got ahead in the count and teed off on a slider.
The Phillies didn’t get a hit until Derek Hill’s one-out single in the third inning. They didn’t have an extra-base hit.
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