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PHILADELPHIA -- Jerad Eickhoff made one mistake that equaled three others.Eickhoff allowed four homers in Philadelphias 15-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night.Andrew McCutchen hit two solo homers, Jordy Mercer hit a three-run shot and John Jaso and Sean Rodriguez also went deep to help the Pirates split a four-game series.The first three home runs, I have no problems with those. Those happen. Solo home runs dont hurt you, Eickhoff said. But the three-run home run, those just kill you. Those are frustrating. The biggest thing is I feel like I let the guys down in here. These guys are fighting. I have to live with that. Thats the most frustrating thing.Eickhoff (10-14) gave up six runs -- three earned -- and five hits in 6 2/3 innings.He made too many bad pitches, manager Pete Mackanin said.Chad Kuhl (4-3) pitched six effective innings in front of more than 100 family and friends from his nearby home state of Delaware. Kuhl (4-3) allowed two runs and four hits, striking out five. He retired the first 12 batters before Tommy Joseph lined a double to right-center in the fifth.Jaso led off the game with his sixth homer. McCutchen drove one out to center in the fourth. Rodriguez connected in the fifth to make it 3-0.Mercers shot increased the Pirates lead to 6-2 in the seventh.That cant happen, Eickhoff said. With two guys on there and Mercer in the box, Ive got to execute. That was a key point in the game. I think if I executed that pitch, it would have been a complete different ballgame.McCutchen hit his 23rd homer off Frank Herrmann in the eighth.BUSTING OUTThe Pirates had seven hits and eight runs in the ninth to put the game way out of reach.MINOR SHAKEUPDusty Wathan, who led Double-A Reading to the best record in the Eastern League this season and a second consecutive Eastern Division championship, will manage Philadelphias Triple-A affiliate, Lehigh Valley, in 2017. Wathan replaces Dave Brundage.PROPER GOODBYEPhillies manager Pete Mackanin plans to start Ryan Howard all three games of the season-ending home series vs. the Mets on Sept. 30-Oct. 2. The 2006 NL MVP is the last player remaining from Philadelphias 2008 World Series championship team. The Phillies will exercise a $10 million buyout after the season ends, so Howard is down to his final games in red pinstripes.HEY A.J.Former Pirates and Phillies pitcher A.J. Burnett drove from Maryland to Philadelphia to see two of his former teams. He watched the Pirates take batting practice on the field and chatted with many of his old teammates.UP NEXTPirates: RHP Ryan Vogelsong (3-5, 4.66 ERA) starts the opener of a four-game series at Cincinnati. RHP Robert Stephenson (2-1, 4.43) goes for the Reds.Phillies: LHP Adam Morgan (2-10, 5.73) takes the mound in the start of a three-game series vs. Miami. RHP Tom Koehler (9-11, 3.97) pitches for the Marlins.Ben Bishop Jersey . 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Fifth place Dallas and sixth-seeded Nashville also have 26 points, but the Stars have three games in hand on Winnipeg while Nashville has two.An application by the taxman to wind up debt-ridden London Welsh has been adjourned until after Christmas.Officials at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) had asked for the club, which in the 1960s and 1970s boasted some of the biggest names in Welsh rugby among its ranks, to be wound up at a Bankruptcy & Companies Court hearing in London on Monday.But a judge -- Registrar Christine Derrett -- adjourned the application until Jan. 23 to give creditors time to hold a meeting.A judge had analysed the case at a hearing in October when a barrister representing HMRC indicated that the club owed more than ￡90,000 in tax.London Welshs website says the club was founded in a Fleet Street hotel in 1885 by a group of Welshmen living in the capital.In the 1960s and 1970s, internationals including John Dawes, JPR Williiams, Gerald Davies, John Taylor and Mervyn Davies featured in line-ups during a golden age.ddddddddddddThe club is now mid-table in rugbys second tier, the Championship.Last week, London Welsh chairman Gareth Hawkins said the club aimed to go into voluntary liquidation.He said there was no alternative.London Welsh has reached a difficult point in its illustrious history, said Hawkins in a statement posted on the clubs website.Due to a playing budget of ￡1.7million and gates at games numbering as low as 400, the clubs current business model is totally unsustainable.The debts accrued from trading in this way have left the club with no alternative but to seek liquidation. 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