Phillies hit five homers in romp over Orioles
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SARASOTA, Fla. – Chase Utley hit a pair of two-run home runs and the Philadelphia Phillies hit five homers overall in a 13-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.
Ryan Howard, Domonic Brown and Yuniesky Betancourt also hit home runs for the Philllies, who had 14 hits on the day.
Utley and Brown both had four RBIs.
While much of Saturday’s news will focus on Roy Halladay’s performance in a minor league game back in Clearwater, it was definitely a good day for the Phillies who made the trip to Sarasota.
Starter Aaron Cook went 4 2/3 innings, giving up two runs, while reliever Phillippe Aumont – one of the contenders for a bullpen spot – went 1 1/3 innings and gave up a run. Aumont’s control was once again an issue, as he threw one wild pitch (which allowed the run to score) and walked one.
Philadelphia dominated this one from the start, jumping on Baltimore starter Wei-Yin Chen for three runs in the first.
Jimmy Rollins hit a one-out double down the left-field line and was followed by an opposite field blast by Utley. Howard followed that with a solo home run of his own, also to left field, and it was 3-0 Phillies.
After Brown and John Mayberry Jr. both delivered run-scoring singles to make it a 5-0 game in the third inning, the Phillies tacked on five more runs in the fourth.
That included Utley’s second two-run homer of the day. Again, it was to left field and also brought home Ben Revere, who had reached on an error.
Utley’s blast spelled the end of the day for Chen, who was replaced by Jim Johnson. The right-hander didn’t fare much better as Howard walked, Michael Young singled and Brown hit a three-run homer to left-center field.
Betancourt, who came into replace Rollins, hit a three-run homer in the top of the seventh.
Antonio Bastardo, Mike Adams and J.C. Ramirez all followed Aumont to the mound with Adams giving up one run.
