For the first time since the opening week of the season, the Phillies have won the first two games of a series.
The Phils outlasted the rain and the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-5, to improve to 15-23 on the season. They've won a season-high four straight games.
The Phillies matched a season high with seven runs and set new season highs with six extra-base hits and 19 baserunners total (including two who reached via error).
This is the Phils' third series win of the season and first since April 24-26 against the Braves.
Starting pitching report
Jerome Williams remained in the game after a 77-minute rain delay in the third inning and was able to complete five innings to earn the win.
Williams (3-3, 5.02) allowed three runs (two earned) on seven hits over five innings with four strikeouts. He was taken deep by hulking Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
MLB
Williams has allowed seven homers in 43 innings, and has a .313 opponents' batting average — not an enviable combination. He's pitched more than five innings just three times in eight starts, failing to do so in each of his four May outings.
Diamondbacks rookie Archie Bradley turned in the worst outing of his young career, allowing four earned runs in just two innings.
Bradley entered the game with a .138 opponents' batting average, the lowest in the majors. But he couldn't command any of his pitches and put eight men on base while recording just six outs.
Bullpen report
In his 16th appearance, Jake Diekman pitched his first 1-2-3 inning of the season. The lefty set down the top of the D-backs' order in the seventh and recorded an out in the eighth before being lifted for Ken Giles.
Giles allowed a home run to the first batter he faced, Yasmany Tomas. It was Tomas' first major-league home run and just the second Giles has allowed in 62 appearances as a Phillie. Giles allowed a homer to the first batter he saw in 2013, Yasmani Grandal, then faced 237 batters before being taken deep again. Must be the first name.
Jonathan Papelbon pitched a scoreless ninth for his ninth save of the season in as many chances. Papelbon is now 115 for 130 in save chances as a Phillie. That success rate of 88.5 percent is higher than it was with the Red Sox (219 for 248, 88.3 percent).
At the plate
The Phillies put up two crooked numbers, scoring three runs apiece in the third and fifth innings.
In the third, they loaded the bases with no outs when five straight batters reached base to chase Bradley … and everyone else on the field for that matter as the game was halted by rain. The inning was keyed by Ryan Howard's RBI double and Chase Utley's bases loaded single.
In the fifth, Utley and Carlos Ruiz drove in runs with doubles. Utley had his second multi-hit game of the season. His batting average is up to .138.
Jeff Francoeur produced the game's first run on a second-inning homer to left, his third of the season.
Grady Sizemore, batting third for the second straight night, went 4 for 5 with a double and a run scored. Sizemore, whose days could be numbered with Cody Asche expected to join the Phillies' crowded outfield at some point, is not going down quietly. He's 15 for 37 (.405) over his last 14 games.
The only Phillies starter who failed to reach base was leadoff man Odubel Herrera.
For the D-backs, Goldschmidt hit a towering bomb in the fifth to temporarily trim the Phils' lead to one run. Goldschmidt, whose bat speed is just absurd, has 10 homers and 32 RBIs on the year, along with a batting line of .341/.441/.659.
Franco watch
Third baseman Maikel Franco went 1 for 4 with a walk and a strikeout in his second game with the big club. His single was a line drive to center field. Franco showed some wheels scoring from first on Utley's sharply hit groundball double down the first base line.
He had just two chances in the field, throwing out Tomas and catcher Tuffy Gosewisch on grounders.
Up next
The Phillies wrap up their 10-game home stand at 1:35 p.m. against the Diamondbacks. They're 5-4 so far, following four straight losses with four wins in a row.
Sean O'Sullivan (0-2, 5.06) makes his fourth start. Right-hander Josh Collmenter (3-4, 5.27), who has an extreme overhand motion, goes for the Diamondbacks. Collmenter allowed nine runs in 1 1/3 innings in his last start against the Nationals.