Tampa Bay Rays at Philadelphia Phillies

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Tampa Bay Rays

98-63, 43-37 Away

Final
12 - 1

Philadelphia Phillies

87-74, 42-38 Home

Phillies lose 4th straight game in last-week collapse, will play for NL wild card in season finale

Tampa Bay Rays vs. Philadelphia Phillies: Game Highlights

Philadelphia had a 6 1/2-game lead over Arizona for the third NL wild card on Sept. 1 before going into a tailspin that now includes four straight losses. The Diamondbacks lost 10-7 at San Diego on Saturday night and remain one game back of the Phillies for the final wild card.

The Diamondbacks hold the tiebreaker over Philadelphia, so the Phillies still need a win Sunday or an Arizona loss to reach the postseason.

Philadelphia will turn to Zack Wheeler on Sunday to try and finally clinch its fifth straight playoff berth and avoid the franchise's worst collapse since 1964. The Phillies are 9-14 in September.

With the Phillies’ attempt at clinching an NL wild card teetering on an epic meltdown, Nola (7-12) was hit hard on just about every ball in play and left trailing 3-0 after pitching only one inning.

Junior Caminero hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Richie Palacios added an RBI double for a 3-0 lead. Caminero’s 42nd homer gave him 101 RBI for the AL East champion Rays.

Palacios had four RBI and Victor Mesa Jr. had his first four-hit game.

The Phillies used six relievers. José Alvarado was voraciously booed off the mound after the beleaguered lefty gave up three runs in the fifth inning. José Urquidy allowed three runs in the sixth to make it 10-0 and most Phillies fans — some of whom wore brown paper bags over their heads — fled for the exits on a rainy night.

Rays starter Griffin Jax took a line drive from Philadelphia’s Trea Turner off his lower back and left the game after three innings.

The Phillies had a runner on second and two outs when Turner drilled a 104-mph line drive off Jax. The ball ricocheted to shortstop Taylor Walls, who threw out Turner for the third out of the inning.

Jax was relieved by Steven Matz (6-6), who pitched a scoreless inning.

The Phillies snapped their 21-inning scoreless streak on an unearned run in the seventh.

Up next The Rays finish with RHP Nick Martinez (15-5, 2.94 ERA) on the mound.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Harper grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Schwarber walked.
	9th Inning	Turner to third on wild pitch by Sulser.
	9th Inning	Turner doubled to center.
	9th Inning	Crawford struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Stubbs struck out swinging.

Statistics

TB		PHI
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	13
9	Strikeouts	8
12	Runs Batted In	0
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
17	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	1
5	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
12	Runs	1
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
44	At Bats	34
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
26	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
1	Intentional Walks	0
5	Doubles	3
24	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
167	Pitches	188
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
25	Total Bases	10
49	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
6	Extra Base Hits	3
10.3	Runs Created	3.3
.386	Batting Average	.206
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.568	Slugging Percentage	.294
.295	Secondary Average	.265
.449	On Base Percentage	.308
1.017	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.602
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
9.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.1
78.0	Batter Rating	16.0
44.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.41	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.82
.182	Isolated Power	.088
0.56	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.63
.102	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.128
-.091	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.059
24.0	Runs Produced	1.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.5	Balls In Play Average	0.3
117.3	MLB Rating	69.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0