May 12 (Reuters) – Philadelphia’s two-time Cy Young Award
winner Roy Halladay lost his third consecutive game when the San
Diego Padres squeezed out a 2-1 victory on Saturday.
Pinch-hitter Jesus Guzman assured the Padres the win with a
sacrifice fly in the seventh inning, and Edinson Volquez held
the Phillies to six hits and a run in six innings. He struck out
five.
Halladay (3-3), who won the American League’s top pitching
award in 2003 and the National League’s in 2010, struck out 10
and walked only one in scattering seven hits over seven innings.
But he could not get the support he needed from Philadelphia
batters in going winless for the fifth consecutive game. His
last victory was on April 16.
The Phillies scored first on Freddy Galvis’ RBI double in
the second before the Padres responded in the third on Will
Venable’s double, then got the winner in the seventh on Guzman’s
sacrifice fly.
Philadelphia had a runner on third in the ninth but Hunter
Pence struck out to end the game.
(Reporting By Gene Cherry in Raleigh North Carolina; Editing by
Greg Stutchbury)
