Salisbury: One bad throw, one bad inning, and too many runners left in scoring position equals more struggles for Phillies

Boos bombarded Taijuan Walker’s eardrums as he walked off the mound in the second inning Monday night at Citizens Bank Park. He had just given up six runs as the San Francisco Giants quickly erased a three-run deficit on their way to handing the Phillies a 10-4 loss.
Walker’s attempt to be a stopper after the Phillies had been shut out twice over the weekend in St. Louis, part of a disappointing 2-4 road trip, did not go well on the scoreboard, and he really had no one to blame for that but himself. His throwing error on a potential inning-ending double play ball in the second inning led to five San Francisco runs, four of them coming on a pair of home runs as the pitcher temporarily unravel...