Rally Falls Short, Giants Lose to Phillies

PHILADELPHIA — The Phillies are technically a major league team, and any team can beat any other on any given day. But given the hole the Giants have put themselves in, there really was no excuse for not sweeping the home team this weekend.Instead it was the Phillies who celebrated Saturday, coming from behind for a 5-3 win. The Phillies had lost 15 of 18 entering the day. For the Giants, the season-long search for momentum continues. A night after scoring 10 runs and leaving 17 more runners on base, the Giants did nothing against a right-hander making his MLB debut, and they paid the price when the Phillies scored four in the seventh. 1 Arrested on Suspicion of Australian Tourist's Death in SF Here are five things to know from the day we learned nobody in MLB — and I mean nobody — bat-flips like Odubel Herrera …--- The Giants led 1-0 heading into the sixth, but Tommy Joseph — the man traded for Hunter Pence — wrapped a homer around the left field pole. In the seventh, the wheels came flying off. Johnny Cueto gave up a pair of singles and Hunter Strickland was hit with two singles and a bases-clearing triple by Herrera. Mysterious Shark...