If you turned the game off after the first-pitch, inside-the-park home run, you actually missed a fun game for once.
Aside from the defensive miscues – looking at you Cameron Perkins and Cameron Rupp – Jerad Eickhoff’s inability to go deep in games, and Edubray Ramo’s ninth inning meltdown, the Phillies first win in California this season was worth staying up for.
Rhys Hoskins hit his fourth homer, a three-run shot to left, since getting called up on August 10 to put the Phillies ahead for good in the third inning.