Freddy Galvis sends the Phillies fans home happy Sunday.
It looked like the Phillies were in for another long day at the plate. They couldn't get anything going yesterday because of Bronson Arroyo's dominating performance and failed to get to Homer Bailey today, as he pitched 7 innings of shutout baseball.
The Reds would get on the board early today with Jay Bruce's 5th homer to dead center to make it 1-0. They would tack on to the lead in the 6th with Todd Frazier's right field double to drive in Joey Votto.
That would be all the Reds could get off of Jonathan Pettibone, who was very effective today, but failed to receive any run support. Pettibone posted 7 innings of two run baseball, allowing seven hits and striking out four batters.
The game was certainly looking like it was in the hands of Cincinnati in the 8th with a 2-0 lead and that strong bullpen filled with many power arms. However, the Phillies would battle back with a clutch two out hit in the 8th frame by Chase Utley to score Ben Revere, cutting the lead to 2-1.
But the Reds wouldn't blow the game in the 9th with Aroldis Chapman in for the save opportunity right? Right? After walking Delmon Young to start the inning, pinch runner Cliff Lee would come in to pinch run. However, he would get picked off to make the first out of the inning. It looked like a rally was now out of hand for a Phillies offense that went 16 innings without a run until the later frames of this game.
Then came the improbable. Erik Kratz lined a 3-2 fastball pitch into the seats to tie the game at 2. Next batter up was Freddy Galvis, who would serve the next pitch down the left field foul pole line to give the Phillies the win in walk-off fashion.
Hopefully this exciting win can give the Phils some momentum to get back to .500 on the year.
As for the Reds, they will look to get back on track tomorrow night when they open up a three game set with the New York Mets.
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