Williams' hit in 12th gives Phillies series win

By Theo DeRosa, Sports Talk Philly staff

Final: Phillies 3, Marlins 1 (12 innings)

PHILADELPHIA — Nick Williams was flat on the dirt between first and second base. He'd just tried to risk taking an extra base on a line-drive single, and been caught. He'd been tagged out two-thirds of the way to second.

But Williams, as always, remained smiling. Because his single had been the deciding hit of a 12-inning game on Sunday afternoon, chasing in two runs to give the Phillies a 3-1 lead they held on to as well as a series win on the road in Miami.

Starter Jake Thompson's command was greatly improved on his start on Sunday, where he went six innings and allowed just one run, which came on a wild pitch. He struck out seven without walking a batter.

Adam Morgan came up huge with three scoreless innings of relief before Williams drove in the go-ahead runs. Héctor Neris closed it out.

WP: Adam Morgan (3-1, 4.17) ❖ LP: Junichi Tazawa (3-4, 5.86) ❖ S: Héctor Neris (19)

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Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	R	H	E
PHI	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	11	0
MIA	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0

Miami starter José Ureña and Thompson put up dueling zeros through the first four innings. In the fifth, Jorge Alfaro led off with a rocket of a single, and Thompson followed with a butcher-boy play (showing bunt, then pulling the bat back and swinging away) that resulted in a one-out liner back near Ureña for a hit. César Hernández lifted a single to left that scored the first run of the game.

Thompson gave the run right back as Brian Anderson led off the bottom of the fifth with a double down the left-field line. Anderson got to third on a groundout and scored with two outs and two strikes as Alfaro couldn't handle a Thompson breaking ball that bounced in the dirt. The pitch went between Alfaro's legs, but it was scored a wild pitch nonetheless.

Thompson finished six innings; Ureña managed seven. New acquisition Juan Nicasio pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh, showing nice velocity on his fastball and striking out one in a 1-2-3 inning.

Ureña gave way to Kyle Barraclough, who struck out all three batters he faced — Hernández, Freddy Galvis and Nick Williams — in the eighth.

Luis Garcia took over for Nicasio for the bottom of the inning, dealing another 1-2-3 frame.

Against Marlins closer Brad Ziegler in the ninth, Hyun Soo Kim's single was the only damage. Ziegler got Cameron Perkins to fly out to the warning track in center to end the inning.

Adam Morgan came in for the bottom of the ninth. Morgan pitched around red-hot Giancarlo Stanton, walking the power-hitting outfielder on four pitches with one out.

Hernández and Galvis had back-to-back base hits in the tenth against Brian Ellington to put runners on the corners with one out. Williams grounded back to Ellington and the Marlins got Hernández in a rundown to prevent the go-ahead tally. Tommy Joseph grounded out to shortstop to end the inning.

Morgan stayed on for his second inning of work as he pitched a 1-2-3 frame to keep the game going.

Dustin McGowan countered with a 1-2-3 top of the 11th. Morgan, out again for the bottom of the inning, managed the same, totaling three scoreless and hitless innings to send the game into the 12th inning.

The Phillies got through against Junichi Tazawa in the 12th. Daniel Nava lined a single and was replaced by Ricardo Pinto on the bases after Nava tweaked something in his back with the swing. Pinto went to second on Ty Kelly's bunt and aggressively took third on a passed ball that squirted a little bit away from A.J. Ellis. After a groundout to shortstop moved Hernández to second, Williams lined a base hit to right. Pinto and Hernández both scored while Williams was caught between first and second to end the inning. He'd given the Phillies a 3-1 lead, though.

Stanton walked to lead off the bottom of the 12th against Héctor Neris. Christian Yelich followed with a swinging bunt that left no play for the infielders as Yelich reached.

But Neris rebounded to strike out Marcell Ozuna, retire Anderson and strike out Tomás Telis to end the threat and the game.

The Phillies head to New York for a midweek series that gets started right away with a 1:10 p.m. start on Monday. Mark Leiter faces the Mets' Rafael Montero, who has been hot of late.

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