Phillies Suffer Historic Shutout Defeat
By Matt Veasey
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The Philadelphia Phillies suffered one of the most embarrassing defeats in franchise history in Sunday’s series finale at the New York Mets.
The Phillies suffered the franchise’ worst shutout defeat in over 130 years on Sunday afternoon, dropping a 17-0 whitewashing at the hands of the host New York Mets at Citi Field.
On the shutout end, it was rookie Mets’ starting pitcher Robert Gsellman doing the honors. Gsellman (3-2) allowed just three hits over seven innings, striking out eight and walking two batters.
On the Mets offensive end of things, the production was spread all across the lineup. New York received hits from 10 different players, with four producing a two-hit afternoon.
The two biggest blows for the hosts were Curtis Granderson‘s 30th home run of the season in the bottom of the 4th inning that made it a 2-0 ball game, and then a grand slam off the bat of Asdrubal Cabrera in the home 7th that stretched the lead out to 11-0.
This was the Phillies second-largest shutout defeat in club history, the worst coming during the very first season of the franchise’ existence back in August of 1883.
Phillies: Second-largest shutout loss in franchise history. Record-holder (28-0) was in inaugural season (8/21/1883 at Providence).
— Doug Kern (@dakern74) September 26, 2016
Not only was the shutout historic from the Phillies end, but it was also historic from the Mets end of things, of course in a much more positive way.
History @CitiField as 17-0 win over #Phillies is most one-sided shutout in #Mets history. (Twice won 14-0)
— Eric Hornick (@ehornick) September 25, 2016
The Phils managed just three hits on the day. Freddy Galvis singled with one out in the top of the 1st inning. Then rookie phenom Jorge Alfaro singled with two outs in the top of the 2nd inning.
Finally, Cody Asche lined a base hit with two outs in the top of the 4th inning. That was it for the Phillies on the afternoon.
Phillies starting pitcher Jake Thompson lasted just four innings, surrendering three earned runs on five hits while also walking three batters.
It was announced following the outing that the team will be shutting down their prized young arm for the season, and Thompson will come to spring training in Clearwater next year prepared to fight for a regular spot in the starting rotation.
“I think I made pretty big strides in the second half of my stay here, and that’s something I’ll look to build off of going into this offseason and Spring Training next year,” Thompson said per MLB.com contributors.
This will be the final week of the Phillies 2016 season. Following an off-day on Monday the club will be in Atlanta for their final three games ever at Turner Field. Then it’s a return home next weekend to close out the season against the Mets.
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