Phillies Break Slide with Extra-Inning Win Over Cubs

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00:00We needed to see extra innings yesterday, 11 innings to be exact, at the bank.

00:05The Phils were down in the 11th.

00:07They got two runs in the RBI walk-off winner, courtesy of Brandon Marsh.

00:13Philadelphia snaps their own five-game slide with a 4-3 win in 11.

00:18I mean, here's what's the problem with the Phillies right now.

00:21With that lineup, they should be much more powerful.

00:23They're just not.

00:23Yes, they won the game 4-3, and you'll take that.

00:26But similar to many Phillies games that we've watched,

00:28the Cubs get the solo home run in the first.

00:30The Phillies actually have the lead by the end of five.

00:32Wheeler's doing very well.

00:33They pull Wheeler, a home run given up by the bullpen right away,

00:36and you can't get base hits in timely fashion.

00:38Now, here's where the Phillies lucked out a little bit here, in my mind.

00:40You get to the 10th inning.

00:41You get a hold from your reliever.

00:44It's like, okay, we just got to score a run, man, on second base.

00:46The fact that the Phillies didn't bunt in the 10th inning

00:48and cost themselves to get first and second with nobody out after a walk to Schwarber,

00:52a ground ball double play for Alec Baum, nobody gets through that lineup there.

00:55And you say, you know what?

00:56You can't have that.

00:56So, at least they recognized, in Major League Baseball, it's okay to bunt.

01:00And bunting leads to victories and extras.

01:03So, what did they do after they needed to score some runs here in the 11th inning?

01:06They bunted twice in that inning.

01:08Wow, look at that.

01:09Put pressure on the defense.

01:10Both of those guys reached base and led to the game-winning hit there later in that game.

01:15Who was it?

01:15The game-winning hit was...

01:16Brandon Marsh.

01:17Marsh, excuse me.

01:18Yeah, Marsh, excuse me.

01:19Yeah.

01:19Comes into that game as a pinch hitter late, which was a good move for them.

01:22But at the same time, 16 hits, four runs.

01:25You had one extra base hit.

01:27You had 16 hits in Citizens Bank ballpark on a warm night.

01:31You had one extra base hit.

01:32Come on now.

01:32That's ridiculous.