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The Phillies took a 3-2 lead into the ninth inning on Friday but couldn't hold on and lost 6-5 in the eleventh inning.
ATLANTA - The Phillies have found different ways to lose lately. Too many outs on the bases. Too many late leads slipping away. Too many chances to finish games that they haven't finished.
The Phillies led three different times from the ninth inning on, got go-ahead hits from Justin Crawford and Luis Arraez in extras and still walked off the field with a 6-5 loss to the Braves in 11 innings.
The bullpen let them down again. So did the little things.
And after another night where they had chances to put a game away and couldn't, the Phillies are now five games back in the National League East.
The Phillies have spent the last week giving away outs and bases at exactly the wrong time. Friday brought another one.
Bryce Harper doubled to open the ninth with the Phillies holding a one-run lead. Alec Bohm followed with a ground ball to the left side. Harper broke toward third, then stopped and wound up caught in no man's land between second and third.
"Obviously, not an ideal situation," Harper said. "Need to be better."
Instead of a runner in scoring position with one out and a chance to add insurance, the Phillies handed Atlanta an out.
It's become too familiar lately. Baserunning mistakes have piled up over the last week, part of a stretch in which the Phillies' fundamentals have slipped at a bad time.
Asked about the same type of mistake showing up with different players, he took it a step further.
"A little bit contagious," Mattingly said. "I don't understand it, really. But again, we'll just keep talking about it and working through it."
There isn't much margin for it right now. Not with the Braves chasing them in the standings and not with a bullpen that has had its own problems protecting leads.
Bowlan gave up two singles - one which scored a run on a Derek Hill error - on breaking balls, allowing Atlanta to tie the game and extending a rough stretch in which he has now surrendered a run in five of his last six outings.
Mattingly thought the ball was coming out well. Bowlan felt much the same about the contact that beat him.
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