Hellickson
PHILADELPHIA -- Jeremy Hellickson pitched eight strong innings and Tyler Goeddel homered as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 4-1 on Wednesday night.
Hellickson (7-7) allowed one run and five hits in his longest outing of the season. He struck out eight, matching his second highest total this year, and did not walk a batter.
Jeanmar Gomez picked up his 26th save of the season by working a perfect ninth as the Phillies snapped a three-game losing streak.
Chris Johnson homered for Miami, which lost for only the second time in nine games.
Hellickson has been the subject of trade speculation with the Aug. 1 non-waiver deadline approaching, and one of the teams reported to have interest is Miami. He surrendered Johnson's homer in the fifth but otherwise was in trouble only in the fourth, when the Marlins put two on with one out.
Hellickson, however, retired the Nos. 4 and 5 hitters in the Marlins' order, Giancarlo Stanton and Marcell Ozuna, to extinguish the threat.
Hellickson also retired 10 of the last 11 hitters he faced.
The Phillies began the night hitting a major league-worst .218 at home and had managed three runs and 10 hits in their three previous games, all losses. They had 12 hits Wednesday.
Goeddel, a rookie making a rare start in left field, went 2-for-4 with a career-high three RBIs.
Miami starter Wei-Yin Chen (5-4) lasted 5 1/3 innings and allowed four runs and 11 hits while striking out five. He did not walk a batter.
Philadelphia's Peter Bourjos singled to open the first and Goeddel hit Chen's 1-0 fastball into the seats in right for his fourth homer of the season and his first since June 1, 26 games earlier. Goeddel ended a string of 16 hitless at-bats as well as a 1-for-26 slump.
Goeddel added an RBI single in the second, giving the Phillies a 3-0 lead.
Johnson made it 3-1 in the fifth, lining Hellickson's 3-1 fastball into the left field seats. It was his fourth homer of the season.
The Phillies put runners at second and third to open the sixth on Freddy Galvis' single and Cesar Hernandez's double. Chen departed after retiring Hellickson, and Bourjos drove in a run with a sacrifice fly off reliever Nick Wittgren, giving Philadelphia a 4-1 cushion.
NOTES: Philadelphia LF Tyler Goeddel made his first start since July 10 and RF Jimmy Paredes started for the first time since July 9. ... ESPN.com reported that San Francisco Giants scouts are evaluating Phillies RHPs Jeanmar Gomez and David Hernandez for possible trades with the Aug. 1 non-waiver deadline approaching. ... CSNPhilly.com reported that Hernandez was told by an opponent in June that he was tipping his pitches, but manager Pete Mackanin did not put much stock in that. ... Before the first two games of this series, the Marlins had not won back-to-back games in extra innings since June 8-9, 2013, when they beat the New York Mets twice.