Phillies 6, Marlins 5
MIAMI -- Tyler Goeddel and Andres Blanco hit consecutive RBI doubles with two outs in the eighth inning, helping the Philadelphia Phillies rally past the Miami Marlins 6-5 on Sunday afternoon at Marlins Park.
It was the second night in a row that the Phillies entered the eighth inning trailing but rallied to win. They scored three runs in the eighth on Saturday night and two in the same frame on Sunday.
Before Saturday's Miami meltdown, the Marlins bullpen had strung together 15 2/3 scoreless innings since Tuesday.
The Phillies (18-14) took two of three games in their weekend series against Miami (16-14), moving ahead of the Marlins and into third place in the NL East.
Hector Neris (1-1) earned the win with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief work. Reliever David Phelps (2-2) took the loss.
Jeanmar Gomez earned the save with a scoreless ninth, striking out dangerous pinch hitter Giancarlo Stanton in the process.
Miami opened the scoring with three runs in the fourth. The first three batters in the inning -- Martin Prado, Christian Yelich and Justin Bour -- singled. Bour's hit made it 1-0, and after an RBI ground-rule double to right by Derek Dietrich, Miami scored its final run of the inning on a groundout by J.T. Realmuto.
Philadelphia tied the score 3-3 with a three-run sixth. After loading the bases with one out on singles by Cesar Hernandez, Cameron Rupp and Darin Ruf, Freddy Galvis hit a grounder to the hole at shortstop, where Adeiny Hechavarria made a nice backhand stop but threw high to second base, allowing two runs to score. Goeddel then added an RBI groundout.
The Phillies went up 4-3 in the seventh. Odubel Herrera hit a one-out single and stole second. He then scored from second on Hernandez's broken-bat groundout to first base. Reliever Nefi Ogando avoided the flying piece of wood and covered first on the flip play but could not throw home in time after colliding with Hernandez.
Miami went ahead 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh. Chris Johnson tied the score with his second career pinch-hit homer and his first since Sept. 20, 2011. Miami took the lead on Bour's sacrifice fly to right.
Pinch-hitter Ryan Howard started the Phillies' eighth-inning rally by drawing a one-out walk on six pitches. Goeddel, who is hitting only .158 but had two RBIs on the day, tied the score with his shot to right-center. Blanco then hit the go-ahead RBI with his double to virtually the same spot on the field.
NOTES: The experiment of having Marlins C J.T. Realmuto lead off, which began on Tuesday, is over for now. Miami rested RF Giancarlo Stanton and put backup RF Ichiro Suzuki in the leadoff spot. Realmuto hit seventh in the order. ... Entering Sunday, Phillies CF Odubel Herrera was batting .390 since he was moved to leadoff batter on April 20. ... The Phillies close out their 10-game road trip -- their longest of the season so far -- with three games at the Atlanta Braves, Tuesday-Thursday. ... Miami will play host to the Milwaukee Brewers, Monday-Wednesday, to conclude a nine-game homestand.