Eflin strong again, Hoskins 運動s in 2 as Phils （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Nats
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Zach Eflin has learned there's more to pitching than just throwing hard.
Eflin pitched seven strong innings and Rhys Hoskins drove in a pair of runs to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-1 victory over the Washington 国家のs on Sunday.
Cesar Hernandez 追加するd two （テニスなどの）ダブルス for the NL East-主要な Phillies, who have won six of nine.
Eflin (4-3) gave up one run on four 攻撃する，衝突するs with five strikeouts and two walks. He was coming off his third career 完全にする game in his previous 遠出, a 勝利，勝つ over Miami, and is 5-0 with a 1.05 ERA in his last five home starts.
"It's 位置を示すing pitches on a 一貫した basis, having a game 計画（する）, reading hitters, going in and out, up and 負かす／撃墜する," Eflin said. "I've come a long way from someone who chucked the ball up there."
Catcher Andrew Knapp was asked what he most liked about Eflin's 遠出.
Philadelphia Phillies starting 投手 Zach Eflin throws during the first inning of a baseball ga me against the Washington 国家のs, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
"Besides it all?" Knapp said.
"That's 正確に／まさに how you want it to go," Knapp 追加するd. "He's doing what he wants to do: fastball 命令（する）, getting ahead of hitters."
Kurt Suzuki ホームランd for the third straight day for Washington, which has lost eight of 11.
The game was played in a 安定した 霧雨 on a 冷静な／正味の, breezy afternoon.
The 国家のs played without five 正規の／正選手s after placing first baseman Matt Adams on the 10-day 負傷させるd 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） with a left shoulder 緊張する. Also sidelined are Ryan Zimmerman (foot), Anthony Rendon (肘), Trea Turner (finger) and Juan Soto (支援する).
The patchwork 顔触れ played some 不安定な 弁護, and Philadelphia took advantage of a pair of errors by rookies to go up 2-0 in the first inning.
Shortstop Carter Kieboom booted Segura's ゴロ, putting 走者s on first and second with no outs. Anibal Sanchez (0-5) got the second out and looked like he was going to 立ち往生させる the bases 負担d when Hernandez grounded はっきりと to first. But the ball scooted between the 脚s of first baseman Jake Noll, who was called up from ３倍になる-A before the game to 取って代わる Adams.
"We have to catch the ball," 国家のs 経営者／支配人 Dave Martinez said. "Hitting comes and goes, but making 決まりきった仕事 plays is a constant."
Philadelphia blew the game open with five runs on five 攻撃する，衝突するs in the sixth off left-手渡すd reliever Matt Grace.
With 走者s on first and third and one out, Eflin 首尾よく 遂行する／発効させるd a safety squeeze, bunting 負かす／撃墜する the first-base line to 得点する／非難する／２０ Knapp and make it 3-1. Miscommunication by the 国家のs 許すd Eflin to reach 安全に.
"We can't give teams 31 outs," Martinez said.
The Phillies then 得点する／非難する／２０d on ジーンズ Segura's groundout, Bryce Harper's 選び出す／独身 to 権利 and Hoskins' two-run 二塁打 to left.
Sanchez needed 44 pitches to get through the first. The 権利-hander ended up going 4 2/3 innings, 許すing two unearned runs on two 攻撃する，衝突するs with nine strikeouts and four walks.
Washington pulled within 2-1 in the fourth on Suzuki's fifth ホームラン of the season. He went 深い in all three games of the series at Philadelphia, but the 使い果たすd Nats lost two of three to 落ちる five games below .500.
BRYCE ON BASE
Harper finished 1-for-5 with a pair of strikeouts and has reached base in all eight games against his former team this season. He is batting .321 with two ホームランs and seven 打点s against Washington.
PHILLY FLOW
Suzuki 改善するd to 7-for-14 with four ホームランs and seven 打点s in six games this season at Philadelphia.
TRAINER'S ROOM
国家のs: Rendon is on 跡をつける to return to the 顔触れ on Tuesday after taking batting practice over the 週末.
Phillies: Herrera went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and is 0-for-6 since 存在 活動させる／戦時編成するd from the 負傷させるd 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） on Saturday. He had been out since April 17 with a 権利 hamstring 緊張する.
UP NEXT
国家のs: Open a three-game 始める，決める at Milwaukee on Monday night with RHP Max Scherzer (1-4, 4.08 ERA) …に反対するing RHP Jhoulys Chacin (3-3, 5.24).
Phillies: RHP Vince Velasquez (1-1, 2.73) starts for Philadelphia in the opener of a three-game series at St. Louis on Monday night against RHP Miles Mikolas (3-2, 4.73).
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観客s, from left 権利, Emma Gordy, and Robert Gordy, from Fredricksburg, Pa., Suzanne Taylor, from West Chester, Pa., and Sari Bollocking, from Coatesville, Pa., 耐える the rain during a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington 国家のs, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
Washingto n 国家のs' Kurt Suzuki (28) runs the bases after hitting a ホームラン during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper (3) and Rhys Hoskins (17) celebrate after their team 敗北・負かすd the Washington 国家のs in a baseball game, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
Philadelphia Phillies' Cesar Hernandez (16) follows through on a 二塁打 during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Washington 国家のs, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
Philadelphia Phillies' Cesar Hernandez (16) steals third base as Washington 国家のs' Wilmer Difo, obscured at 権利, waits for the ball during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Lau rence Kesterson)
Philadelphia Phillies' Obudel Herrera catches a 飛行機で行く ball by Washington 国家のs' Adam Eaton during the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
