It’s as if the Brewers are remaking the “Rocky” franchise night after night in Philadelphia, but forgetting the cinematic knockout punch at the end.

Avisaíl García delivered the Brewers’ first four-hit game this season and tallied three RBIs, but he saw a fourth wiped off the board on a game-changing replay review in the third inning of a 5-4 loss to the Phillies on Wednesday at Citizens Bank Park. It all felt very familiar.

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An early deficit. A hard-fought comeback. A one-run loss.

“They're doing a little bit more than we are in the end,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “So, we've got to do a little bit more.”

To be more specific, Brewers opponents are doing a little bit more in the beginning. The Brewers have lost four games in a row for the first time this season and haven’t led at the end of a single inning during the skid, though they are hardly getting steamrolled since Sunday’s 16-4 loss to the Dodgers. The Brewers showed fight the next three nights in Philly, allowing four runs in the first two innings Monday, six runs in the first three innings Tuesday and five runs in Freddy Peralta’s first inning on Wednesday, then coming back to make it a one-run game and putting the tying runner in scoring position in the ninth inning all three nights.

On Wednesday, it was a 5-0 deficit before Peralta recorded an out. Here’s how his odd, four-inning start began:

• Andrew McCutchen double on an 0-2 slider

• Brad Miller four-pitch walk

• Rhys Hoskins RBI single on an 0-2 fastball

• J.T. Realmuto four-pitch walk

• Didi Gregorius grand slam

Counsell made the case that Hoskins hit a pitcher’s pitch and that Gregorius’ slam was aided by a stiff wind blowing out to right field, but they counted all the same. Then Peralta suddenly settled in, striking out the next six batters he faced and surrendering only two more baserunners. Relievers Drew Rasmussen, Brent Suter and Brad Boxberger kept it going. After those first five batters, the Phillies had only one more hit and no runs in the rest of the game.

"They got outs,” Phillies manager Joe Girardi said. “We got to Freddy early. You look at Freddy’s ERA. He gave up those five runs and his ERA was still in the 3's. He’s pitched well for them all year. They have an outstanding bullpen."

“I made an adjustment,” Peralta said. “I wasn’t thinking about those five runs or the grand slam. I was just thinking about getting out of this inning and keep working.”

That allowed the Brewers to go all Rocky and mount another comeback attempt.

García started it in the third inning with what initially was scored as a two-run single off Phillies starter Chase Anderson, plating Lorenzo Cain and Daniel Vogelbach. The Phillies challenged and were successful in having Vogelbach’s run wiped off the scoreboard, with replays showing that his lead leg again was in the air over home plate as he slid, allowing Realmuto to tag him out. The same thing happened on the Brewers’ last homestand.

“There's no question that's what happened,” Counsell said. “When Vogey slides his foot comes up, it's not on the plate, and then the tag happens. So, I guess that's what they called. There's nothing you can do about it. It's out of our hands at that point.”

Tyrone Taylor continued the comeback with a pinch-hit home run in the fifth inning while batting in Peralta’s spot. García delivered a two-run single later in the inning after the Brewers chased Anderson from the game and started a series of threats against the middle part of the Phillies’ hard-worked bullpen, with Girardi having to use the likes of rookie Enyel De Los Santos and veteran Matt Moore in higher-leverage roles than usual. The Brewers put the leadoff man aboard in the sixth, the seventh and the eighth, then saw Cain walk with one out in the ninth and move into scoring position on a stolen base.

For the third straight night, however, that last hit was missing.

“I think our guys are doing a good job, we've fallen a little short, unfortunately,” Counsell said. “When you're not at full strength, I think everybody else has to just pick it up. These are not bad games, we're just not quite doing enough. So, you end up a little bit short. That's where we're at.”

“We continue to play hard, try to do our best every inning and fight every pitch,” García said. “Things are going the other way right now. We don’t want that, but that’s baseball.”