{"id":213390,"date":"2025-10-10T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:05:09","slug":"phillies-manager-backs-kerkering-after-error-we-win-as-a-team-and-we-lose-as-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213390\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Manager Backs Kerkering After Error, ‘We Win as a Team and We Lose as a Team’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson was supportive of reliever Orion Kerkering after his error gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 win in the 11th inning of the ALDS on Thursday. <\/p>\n

“He just got caught up in the moment a little bit,” Thomson told reporters after the game. “Coming down the stretch, he pitched so well for us. I feel for [Orion Kerkering] because he’s putting it all on his shoulders. But we win as a team and we lose as a team.”<\/p>\n

With the bases loaded and two outs, Andy Pages hit a grounder back to Kerkering and the right-hander bobbled the ball. He eventually gained control and had time to make a play at first base, but chose to throw home instead before the ball sailed past Phillies catcher\u00a0J.T. Realmuto.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Dodgers clinched the series 3-1 and advanced to the NLCS for the second straight year. <\/p>\n

Thomson was seen consoling<\/a> Kerkering after the defeat. <\/p>\n

A victory by the Phillies would have forced a decisive Game 5 in the NLDS, an impressive feat considering they faced a 2-0 series deficit heading to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

While the late error gave the Dodgers a win, it was far from the sole reason why the Phillies couldn’t find a way to tie the series. Philadelphia’s lineup was only able to muster four hits and one run on Thursday, going 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

As for Kerkering, he finished the regular season with a 3.30 ERA and four saves in 69 games. He racked up 65 strikeouts in 60 innings of work.<\/p>\n

Kerkering wasn’t able to maintain his momentum heading into the postseason, allowing two earned runs in 2.2 innings across three appearances heading into Thursday’s action.<\/p>\n

The Phillies have now suffered back-to-back NLDS eliminations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson was supportive of reliever Orion Kerkering after his error gave the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-213390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}