Daily News | Bohm and newly-arrived Vierling power Phils to fifth straight win, 3-2, with 9th-inning homers off Brewers ace Hader
MILWAUKEE — Just when you thought the Phillies had run out of ninth-inning magic, or that they left Rob Thomson’s pixie dust at home, they recorded their most improbable victory of the season against the most unhittable closer in baseball.
Make it five consecutive victories, the last four coming after president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski fired Joe Girardi and replaced him with Thomson. It’s the Phillies’ longest winning streak of the season. Thomson is also the first Phillies manager to go 4-0 in his first four games since Dallas Green, who took over for Danny Ozark midway through the 1979 season.
Vierling got called up from triple A earlier in the day to give the Phillies an extra player on the bench. Thomson resisted the urge to send him to the plate for lefty-swinging Mickey Moniak in the sixth inning against nasty lefty reliever Hoby Milner, a decision that paid off when Moniak’s turn to bat came up against Hader. Up stepped Vierling, who fouled off a two-strike sinker, waited for a slider, and hit it out to left-center, his first homer since Oct. 1 of last year.
Until the ninth inning, it had been a frustrating night for the Phillies, who scored 32 runs in their previous four games. They were held to only one run on a sacrifice fly by Bryce Harper in the third inning. Otherwise, they left seven runners on base through five innings, wasting one opportunity after another against Brewers rookie starter Jason Alexander.
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