Padres 3, Phillies 1Game 50 - Late Wednesday Night, June 5th in San Diego
Record - 18-32, Tied for 5th Place, 13 game behind the Mets
One Sentence Summary: The Phillies fell quietly to LaMarr Hoyt and the Padres, losing 3-1.
What It Means: The team went 2-7 on a rough 9-game West Coast trip and following an off-day on Thursday, they'd open up a weekend series at home against the Expos.
What Happened: The Phillies were nursing a slim 1-0 lead heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Padres would go on to score three unanswered runs to secure the win.
Jeff Stone singled to start the game and came all the way around to score on a throwing error by first baseman Steve Garvey after Juan Samuel had grounded out. That was it for the Phillies offense for the rest of the day. There would be three more singles as Hoyt easily managed the struggling Phillies line-up. Hoyt earned the complete game win with nine strikeouts.
Charles Hudson pitched well for the Phillies, lasting seven innings and giving up a pair of runs on five hits. Hudson struck out seven.
Featured Card: Greg Gross had one of the four Phillies singles, collecting a pinch-hit in the eighth and raising his season average to .216. I vaguely recall at the time thinking Gross was probably near the end of his career here, but he'd ultimately finish the season with a decent .260 average and he'd play in parts of four more seasons after this.
Gross is still the franchise's all-time pinch-hits leader with 117, and he has more than double the total of the franchise's second pinch-hit leader - Tony Taylor's 54. Tommy Hutton with 52 and Greg Dobbs with 51 are the only other Phillies players with more than 50 career pinch-hits.
1985 Virtual Phillies Wall / 1985 Season Summary Index
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