Phillies strike out 17 in win over Marlins
PHILADELPHIA -- Vince Velasquez and five relievers combined for 17 strikeouts as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 3-1 on Tuesday night.
Rookie first baseman Tommy Joseph, installed in the cleanup spot by manager Pete Mackanin, went 3-for-4 with his first major league home run for Philadelphia, which snapped a two-game losing streak.
Velasquez (5-1) went five shutout innings to run his personal winning streak to three. He allowed three hits and struck out 10, his first double-figure strikeout game since he fanned 16 San Diego Padres in his second start of the season.
Elvis Araujo, who followed Velasquez to the mound, fanned one of the three batters he faced. David Hernandez struck out the side in the seventh, and Hector Neris did the same in the eighth.
Jeanmar Gomez allowed a run in the ninth on Derek Dietrich's sacrifice fly but retired Martin Prado with two aboard to end the game and record his 15th save.
The Phillies' strikeout total was one short of the team record for a nine-inning game.
Miami's Giancarlo Stanton and Jeff Mathis fanned three times apiece.
The Marlins' Marcell Ozuna went hitless in three at-bats, ending a 16-game hitting streak.
Marlins starter Wei-Yin Chen (3-2) took the loss, going six innings and allowing three runs (two earned) while striking out six. He did not walk a batter.
Joseph, playing his third game for the Phillies, led off the second by lining Chen's 1-2 fastball just over the left-field fence and off the foul pole. Besides being his first homer, it was also his first career RBI.
Philadelphia made it 2-0 in the fifth. Freddy Galvis led off with a bloop double to left, and advanced to third when pinch hitter Emmanuel Burriss struck out for the inning's second out. Peter Bourjos, the No. 9 hitter in the Phillies' order, then lined a single to center, scoring Galvis.
The Phillies' Cesar Hernandez led off the sixth with a single and scored one out later when Ozuna, the Marlins' center fielder, misplayed Joseph's single.
NOTES: Ichiro Suzuki's pinch-hit single in the seventh was the 2,949th hit of his major league career. He also recorded 1,278 in Japan. ... Philadelphia C Carlos Ruiz worked his 1,000th career game behind the plate, becoming just the fourth player in Phillies history to catch that many games. According to Elias, he is the 48th player in major league history to catch 1,000 games for the same team. ... Ruiz has been filling in for C Cameron Rupp, who has missed the last three games with an ankle injury. Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said before the game that he expects Rupp to be available for Wednesday's series finale against the Marlins. Mackanin would prefer, however, to rest Rupp that day, giving him more time to heal. Philadelphia is off Thursday. ... The Marlins, who homered twice in Monday's 5-3 victory over the Phillies, are 17-8 in games when they hit a home run.