It was all shaping up so properly for the Phillies on Sunday afternoon.

Trea Turner homered once more.

Kyle Schwarber homered once more.

Ranger Suarez hadn’t allowed successful via six innings with a career-high 10 strikeouts.

Then Suarez misplaced the no-hitter with one out within the seventh inning and the sport rapidly unraveled. Suarez allowed a second straight double that plated two runs, and Matt Strahm was unable to strand the inherited runner. The Marlins tied the sport and took a lead on Seranthony Dominguez an inning later to beat the Phillies, 5-4.

On Friday night time, the Phillies led by two when Dominguez gave up a game-tying house run to Jesus Sanchez. On Sunday, he was taken out to middle by Bryan De La Cruz.

“His command, he doesn’t have it right now,” supervisor Rob Thomson stated. “We’ve got to figure that one out because for us to get where we want to go, he’s got to be one of our top right-handed setup men. He’s not commanding the baseball right now so we’ve got to fix it.”

The Phils lead the Cubs by three video games within the loss column for the highest National League wild-card spot and in addition personal the tiebreaker. They are 78-64 with 20 video games left. They led by a number of runs getting into the sixth inning in all three video games in opposition to Miami but misplaced the weekend sequence.

Dominguez has a 4.25 ERA with 4 losses and 7 blown saves this season. He has simply eight strikeouts in his final 11 innings. During that stretch, the swinging strike fee on his fastball is down from 19% to 12% and the whiff fee on his slider is down from 22% to 13%.

The Phillies have to get him proper earlier than the playoffs. Their bullpen has been among the finest in baseball since June 1 however pitchers like Dominguez, Jose Alvarado and Gregory Soto have proven indicators of slippage. Soto has allowed 9 runs in his final 9⅓ innings and Alvarado has walked six in 7⅓ innings since getting back from his newest bout of elbow irritation.

“I have plenty of confidence in Dominguez. He’s a hard worker, always looking for ways to improve, little tweaks,” Suarez stated. “I have plenty of confidence in him and the team has plenty of confidence in him.”

The Phillies have been 22-12 in one-run video games at one level however have misplaced eight of their final 9.

Suarez saved the Marlins completely off stability via six innings, placing solely two males on base with walks. He had one in every of his greatest changeups of the season, he saved his sinker low and jammed righties inside together with his cutter.

The lefty has a 3.93 ERA in 19 begins this season. He figures to make three extra begins within the common season. The function he fills within the playoffs stays to be seen. Last October, Suarez began within the NLDS and NLCS, closed out the ultimate recreation of the NLCS, appeared in aid in Game 1 of the World Series and began Game 3 in opposition to the Astros.

The Phillies did not have Soto and Strahm behind Alvarado final yr, although. That might influence Suarez’ utilization in October. The Phils are 20-7 behind Taijuan Walker however he hasn’t been sharp in his final 4 begins. Michael Lorenzen has been hit laborious for the reason that no-hitter and each he and Cristopher Sanchez are about 30 innings past their prior career-highs. If Suarez pitches effectively over his subsequent three outings, he may very well be the reply in Game 3 of a wild-card playoff sequence, if needed.

Turner homered two pitches into the underside of the primary inning to supply the Phillies an early lead Sunday. Schwarber homered two innings later for his forty third of the season. He has 16 homers in his final 30 video games whereas Turner has 14 homers in his final 30. The basic math tells you that is mainly a homer from one in every of them each night time for a month.

Schwarber had an opportunity to provide the Phillies a late lead Sunday when he got here up with runners on second and third and two outs within the backside of the eighth however struck out. Turner was hit by a pitch and Bryce Harper walked to place the tying and profitable runs on base with no outs within the ninth, however Alec Bohm grounded right into a double play and Bryson Stott struck out to finish the sport.

A cut up doubleheader Monday opens the Phillies’ four-game house sequence with the Braves. Walker and Lorenzen will begin for the Phils.

“It’s going to be tough,” Thomson stated. “Two really good teams going at it. Tomorrow’s going to be a long day but we’ve just got to grind through it.”