Phillies 3, Padres 0
PHILADELPHIA -- Charlie Morton combined with three relievers on a four-hit shutout as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 Tuesday night.
Odubel Herrera and Maikel Franco drove in runs for Philadelphia, which won for the third time in four games. The other Phillies run came home on an eighth-inning error.
San Diego (3-5) lost for the second time in three games, while Philadelphia (3-5) won for the third time in four games.
Morton (1-1) went 6 2/3 innings and allowed three hits while striking out seven and walking four. He was coming off a 10-6 loss Thursday in Cincinnati, where he surrendered five runs in 3 2/3 innings.
Hector Neris struck out pinch hitter Wil Myers with two on to end the seventh, and David Hernandez worked a scoreless eighth. Jeanmar Gomez pitched the ninth for his third save.
San Diego's Robbie Erlin, making his first start of the season, allowed one run and three hits in six innings. Erlin (1-1) struck out seven and walked two.
Philadelphia's Tyler Goeddel opened the sixth with a single, his first major league hit. Two outs later, Herrera hit a 2-1 Erlin changeup from into the right field corner for a triple, driving home the game's first run.
It was Herrera's third clutch hit in as many days. On Sunday, he hit a two-run homer off the New York Mets' Matt Harvey in the sixth inning of a 5-2 Philadelphia victory, and on Monday, he contributed an opposite-field RBI single off San Diego's Andrew Cashner in a 4-3 Phillies loss.
The Phillies loaded the bases with one out in the eighth on two walks by Kevin Quackenbush and a third by Brad Hand. Franco then grounded into a forceout, but second baseman Cory Spangenberg threw wildly to first in an attempt to complete the double play as two runs scored.
Franco was awarded an RBI for the fielder's choice. Both runs were earned, however.
Erlin held the Phillies hitless until Freddy Galvis lined a two-out single to center in the fifth.
The Padres' only threat in the early innings came when they put two men on against Morton with one out in the fourth, but they were unable to score.
NOTES: Phillies 1B Darin Ruf, expected to start against left-handers this season, was not in the lineup after jamming a shoulder while diving for a ball Monday. ... Philadelphia SS Freddy Galvis, hitting .179 entering the game, was dropped from the leadoff spot to sixth in the order. Manager Pete Mackanin said he hopes to see Galvis go to a heavier bat. ... Padres 3B Alexi Amarista drove in the winning run Monday with a seventh-inning squeeze bunt. According to Elias, he became the first San Diego position player to produce the decisive RBI with a bunt since Brad Ausmus against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 15, 1995. Ausmus now manages the Detroit Tigers.