PHILADELPHIA -- Seeing a clear difference between not being able to clean up a mess, and not being allowed to, Freddy Garcia let his frustration show after Thursday's 3-2 loss to Milwaukee.

Garcia showed displeasure with manager Charlie Manuel's decision to remove him after the veteran loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth. Garcia began the frame by issuing a single to J.J. Hardy and walking Prince Fielder, then retired the next two hitters.

With lefty Gabe Gross due up, Manuel held a mound conference on what to do about a player who already had smacked two home runs off Garcia. If pitching carefully to Gross was discussed, maybe the intention wasn't clear to Manuel. Garcia walked Gross to face righty Tony Graffanino.

Manuel didn't give Garcia the chance to continue, and called for Geoff Geary. The right-hander slapped his glove and trudged into the dugout.

"Really badly," Garcia said, when asked if he wanted to face Graffanino. "I didn't really give anything to hit to [Gross] to face the right-handed hitter. It got to the point where that's my game and I wanted to pitch it. I wanted to get out of the inning.

"Let me pitch. That's all I need to do. Let me pitch. When I get in trouble, let me do my thing and try to get out of the inning."

Garcia faced a similar predicament in the fifth. After allowing a one-out homer to Gross, he allowed runners to reach first and third with one out, but recovered to escape the threat. The sixth was a different story, though, since ball four to Gross came on Garcia's 114th pitch.

"At 114 pitches, he's done anyway," Manuel said. "He's definitely not going back out there anyway. He's definitely getting stretched out now. He has a bad inning where he throws a lot of pitches. It's a matter of time before he'll take you to the seventh and eighth inning."

Garcia feels that time is now, after logging at least 200 innings in seven of his eight Major League seasons, and averaging 13 wins a season. Since returning from right biceps tendinitis, Garcia hasn't gone deeper than six innings in any of his seven outings.

"I'm really frustrated because I can't pass six innings," he said. "I'm a guy who throws a lot of innings. It's made me mad. Everybody else in the rotation is pitching good and throwing innings. I always want to go out there and perform, no matter what, throw six, seven, eight innings most of the time. I'm working really hard to get [further]."

As for his frustration with how he's being used, Garcia offered a terse, "No comment." Manuel had already left the clubhouse and wasn't available to address his pitcher's concerns.

"I've been around for a long time, and I know when guys get in trouble, [they can get out of it], I can get out of trouble too," said Garcia. "That's why I win a lot of games most of the time. It's about confidence. If they don't have confidence about me ... I was feeling fine and he took me out."