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DENVER (AP) -- Terry Shumpert visualized having an impact.
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"When I was on the bench, I knew what the situation would be if
the pitcher's spot came around. That there would be a chance I
would be up with the game on the line," he said.
Shumper capped a three-run rally in the ninth with a two-out,
game-winning single as the Colorado Rockies beat Philadelphia 7-6
Saturday, extending the Phillies' losing streak to five.
"You visualize what you have to do and you have to be ready,"
said Shumpert, 3-for-3 with a bases-loaded walk in his last four
pinch-hit appearances.
With the Rockies trailing 6-4, Jeff Cirillo hit a one-out double
off Jeff Brantley (1-6) and Todd Helton singled, improving his
NL-leading average to .379 with his third hit of the game.
Jeffrey Hammonds hit a sacrifice fly, pinch-hitter Todd
Hollandsworth singled and Brantley walked Ben Petrick and Todd
Walker, forcing in the tying run.
Shumpert singled on an 0-2 fastball.
"The last thing I wanted was to be in the hole at 0-2," Shumpert said. "When you get two strikes, you just want to make good contact, and I got a fastball right over the plate and drove it."
Brantley, who blew a save for the fourth time in 21 chances, was
no happy with plate umpire Mike DiMuro
"The fourth ball to Petrick was close enough to be a strike,
and it was called a ball," Brantley said. "It's not what lost the
game for us. You can't walk two guys like that and expect to win."
Jose Jimenez (5-0) got the final out in the top half for the
win.
"We haven't had one of those in awhile," Colorado manager
Buddy Bell said. "Things looked bleak for us going into the ninth,
and then we get those three great at-bats in a row we had from
Petrick, Walker and Shumpert."
Colorado, which won for just the eighth time in its last 30
games, outhit the Phillies 15-9. Hammonds went 3-for-3 with home
run and two RBI.
"We've been in that situation before and I still thought we'd
win," Philadelphia manager Terry Francona said. "I thought
Brantley would make a pitch to get us out of the inning."
Phillies starter Randy Wolf, unbeaten in six starts since a June
30 loss to Pittsburgh, allowed five runs and 10 hits in five
innings. Colorado's Brian Bohanon gave up five runs and seven hits
in 6 1/3 innings.
Philadelphia went ahead in the first when Cirillo let Scott
Rolen's grounder to third go through his legs for an error, but
shortstop Tomas Perez's miscue allowed the tying run to score in
the bottom half.
Gary Bennett homered for a 2-1 lead in the second, but Brian L.
Hunter re-tied it with an RBI single in the bottom half.
Rolen, in a 3-for-32 slump coming in, followed Bobby Abreu's
one-out triple to the wall in left with his 19th homer, putting the
Phillies ahead 4-2 in the third.
Hammonds hit an opposite-field solo homer in the bottom half and Jeff Frye tied the score with an RBI single in the fifth.
Doug Glanville's run-scoring single put the Phillies ahead 5-4
in the sixth. Perez homered in the eighth off John Wasdin, his
first career homer batting left-handed and his third overall.
Game notes
Philadelphia RHP Wayne Gomes pitched a scoreless inning of
relief in a rehab assignment Friday for Triple-A
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. ... Abreu's third-inning triple was only his
fifth hit in his last 33 at bats. ... Bohanon gave up his first
home run in four starts. ... Flu forced Larry Walker out of the
starting lineup for a second straight day. ... Colorado placed RHP
Giovanni Carrara on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday, with a
sore right elbow and activated LHP Scott Karl from the DL.
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