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MIAMI (Ticker) -- The Philadelphia Phillies kept battling back
after running themselves out of a big inning. However, Kyle
Kendrick had little fight in him on the mound.
John Baker homered and drove in four runs and Jorge Cantu
collected four hits and two RBI as the Florida Marlins rolled to
a 9-5 triumph over the Phillies on Saturday.
Jeremy Hermida and All-Star Dan Uggla also swatted home runs and
Cody Ross went 3-for-5 and scored twice for the Marlins (51-46),
who have won five of their last seven and pulled within 1.5
games of the first-place Phillies (53-45) in the National League
East Division.
Pat Burrell went 3-for-5 with a pair of solo homers and scored
three times for Philadelphia, which lost for the second time in
seven games. It was the second multi-homer game of the season
and 18th career for Burrell, whose 243 blasts ties him with
Chuck Klein for third place on the Phillies' all-time list.
"It's too bad we didn't win the game when he had a day like
that," Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel said. "He's a run
producer. He can hit homers and knock runs in. He's better at
that than people probably give him credit for."
Philadelphia had a chance for a big inning in the second as Ryan
Howard hit a leadoff single and Burrell followed with a double.
But Howard immediately broke for the plate on Jayson Werth's
grounder to third and easily was thrown out.
Burrell scored the game's first run on Pedro Feliz's grounder to
third baseman Cantu, who made an errant throw to first after
initially bobbling the ball. Cantu was charged with two errors
on the play.
"I (try) to make the plays routine, and one slipped away," Cantu
said. "It's part of the game. Two errors on one play. I've
never done that before."
But Cantu got the chance to redeem himself right away as he
fielded Chris Coste's ground ball and fired home to get Werth
for the second out of the frame.
Scott Olsen walked Kendrick to load the bases, but Jimmy Rollins
hit into a fielder's choice to end the inning.
Kendrick (8-4) saw the 1-0 lead disappear quickly, hitting
leadoff batter Mike Jacobs in the bottom half and allowing a
single by Ross before Baker belted his second homer of the
season.
"I'm trying to do whatever I can just to contribute," Baker
said. "(The homer) feels good, but what feels better is that we
won that game against a division rival."
Coste got the Phillies even in the fourth, delivering an RBI
double and scoring on Rollins' two-out single, but Ross opened
the Marlins' half of the inning with a triple and came home on a
base hit by Baker for a 4-3 edge.
The Phillies again tied it in the fifth on Burrell's two-out
blast to left field, but Kendrick failed to contain Florida when
he returned to the mound, retiring just one of the five batters
he faced before being lifted. The righthander was battered for
seven runs and 10 hits in 4 1/3 frames, walking one and hitting
a pair of batters while striking out two.
Hermida led off the frame with his 11th homer and, after a
groundout by Cantu, Josh Willingham singled. Uggla, who set an
All-Star Game record by committing three errors in Tuesday's
contest, followed with a two-run shot, giving the Marlins a 7-4
bulge.
"Hermida led off the inning with a home run that was supposed to
be a fastball in but was out over the plate," Kendrick said.
"Then (the pitch to) Uggla was supposed to be a sinker away, but
it wasn't a good pitch. These guys swing early and often. They
obviously want to hit the fastball, so I just tried to make some
adjustments and throw more sliders."
Cantu made it 9-4 in the seventh with
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