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By Jeremy Kahn

Aaron Nola and the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen made the San Francisco Giants ordinary in the second game of their four-game series.

Nola went seven innings, where he struck out a career-high 12 batters and Odubel Herrera picked up two hits on the night, where he extended his career-high on-base streak to 37 games, and the Phillies defeated the Giants 4-2 at Citizens Bank Park Tuesday night.

With the loss on the evening, the Giants saw their streak of five straight winning series come to an end, as the best the Giants can do in the series is split.

The right-hander gave up just one run and five hits, and did not walk a batter against the Giants, who were shellacked 10-0 in the opener of the four-game series.

The Phillies got three solo home runs from Jorge Alfaro, Aaron Altherr and Carlos Santana, as the Phillies remain one-half game behind the Atlanta Braves in the National League East.

Nola continues to be dominant this season, as he went seven innings for his fourth straight start, as he improves to 4-0 with a minuscule 1.91 earned run average during his four-game winning streak. The Giants did not help themselves out either, as they struck out nine consecutive from the second until the fifth inning.

The Giants took a 1-0 lead off of Nola in the top of the second inning, as Brandon Crawford drove in a run with a groundout that ended Nola’s scoreless inning streak at 14.1 innings.

Altherr tied up the game with a solo home run off of Derek Holland in the bottom of the second inning, and then the Phillies took the lead for good in the bottom of the third inning, when Alfaro took a Holland pitch over the left-field fence.

Herrera drove in a run in the third inning, as he singled up the middle to score Cesar Hernandez to give the Phillies a two-run lead.

Santana got in the home run act in the bottom of the sixth inning, as he hit a solo home run of his own over the left-field wall off of Giants reliever Cory Gearrin.

After striking out 17 times earlier in the season, the Giants did it again on this night, asides from Nola’s 12 strikeouts, as relievers Edubray Ramos, Tommy Hunter and Hector Neris combined to strikeout five over the final two innings of the game.

Pablo Sandoval hit his second home run of the season, as he hit a pinch-hit home run, while batting for Gearrin in the top of the eighth inning.

NOTES: Chris Stratton will try and stop the Giants two-game losing streak on Wednesday evening, as he looks for his fourth win of the season, while the Phillies will counter with Nick Pivetta, who looks to improve to 2-2 on the season.

Buster Posey saw his 23-game hitting streak against the Phillies come to an end, as Posey went 0-for-4 and struck out twice. This was the first time since July 23, 2014 that Posey did not get a get a hit off of Phillies pitching.

The Giants committed yet another error on the evening, and that is now 11 errors in their last five games, including three in the series opener on Monday night.

UP NEXT: Game 3 of the series is scheduled for Wednesday at 4:05 pm PT.