Anderson pitches Brewers to win over Phillies
PHILADELPHIA -- Chase Anderson won for just the second time in his last 10 starts as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 on Thursday night, their eighth straight victory in Citizens Bank Park.
Chris Carter and Jonathan Villar homered for Milwaukee, which won its second straight.
Anderson, who began the night 1-6 with two no-decisions since winning his first start of the season, went 5 2/3 innings and allowed one run and three hits while striking out six. He didn't walk a batter, but he did hit one, while improving to 3-6.
Will Smith pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief for Milwaukee, and Tyler Thornburg worked a perfect eighth. Jeremy Jeffress, who earned his 14th save, pitched around a leadoff double in the ninth to close it out.
Carter homered off Phillies starter Jerad Eickhoff (2-8) in the fourth inning, and Villar added a two-run shot in the ninth off reliever Jeanmar Gomez.
Maikel Franco homered to account for the lone run by the Phillies, who saw their season-worst losing streak reach seven. They have managed just 12 runs during the skid.
Eickhoff went 6 2/3 innings, but departed after Keon Broxton lined a ball off his left foot. Eickhoff yielded two runs and eight hits, while striking out four and walking one.
Milwaukee's Jonathan Lucroy led off the second with a single and tried to score one out later on a double by Kirk Nieuwenhuis. He was, however, gunned down at the plate by second baseman Andres Blanco, after right fielder Jimmy Paredes dug the ball out of the corner.
Nieuwenhuis took third on the throw, then scored the game's first run on a double by Aaron Hill.
Carter made it 2-0 with his 14th homer of the year, a two-out solo shot to left center in the fourth, but Franco answered with a solo blast in the bottom of the inning. It was Franco's ninth homer of the season.
NOTES: The Phillies activated LF Cody Asche (oblique strain) from the disabled list and designated OF David Lough for assignment. Asche, who made his season debut on Thursday, hit .159 while splitting 15 rehab assignment games between Class A Clearwater, Double-A Reading and Triple-A Lehigh Valley. ... The Phillies also activated LHP Mario Hollands (elbow surgery) from the DL and assigned him to Lehigh Valley. ... Milwaukee recalled RHP Jacob Barnes from Triple-A Colorado Springs. Barnes, 2-1 with a 1.21 ERA in 17 games in the minors, takes the roster spot previously occupied by RHP Michael Blazek, who was placed on the DL on Wednesday with an elbow impingement.