Verlander recorded the inning’s second out when Max Kepler hit a line drive to shortstop Willy Adames, bringing Verlander one out away from completing six. On Verlander’s 104th and final pitch, Alec Bohm gave the Phillies a lead they wouldn’t lose with an RBI single to left. The lead gone, Melvin went to his bullpen.

Justin Verlander took the mound in the sixth inning with a one-run lead and a chance to finally get his first win as a Giant. Instead, he saw both slip away. A defensive miscue by left fielder Heliot

Giants pitcher Justin Verlander took the loss in San Francisco's 6-4 defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Park.