Ty Kelly delivered the decisive run with an 11th-inning walk-off single as the Phillies beat Atlanta 4-3 on Saturday night.
Odubel Herrera, who earlier singled home a run, tied the game in the ninth with a solo homer off Braves closer Jim Johnson.
Aaron Altherr also had an RBI single for the Phillies.
Tommy Joseph led off the 11th with a bloop single off Rex Brothers (1-1), the sixth Atlanta pitcher. One out later Herrera grounded a single through the right side, his third hit of the night.
Freddy Galvis flied out, but Rupp walked to load the bases. Kelly, who entered the game in the 10th as part of a double switch, then lined Brothers’ 0-1 fastball into left center to win it.
Hector Neris (3-4) earned the victory by pitching two scoreless innings in relief.
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Matt Adams, Nick Markakis and Tyler Flowers drove in runs for Atlanta.
Starting pitching report
Both starters, Jerad Eickhoff and Atlanta’s Sean Newcomb, scuffled through five innings. Newcomb needed 96 pitches (54 strikes), Eickhoff 91 (57 strikes).
Neither of their lines looked all that bad, however. Eickhoff yielded three runs (one earned) on five hits, three strikeouts and three walks (two intentional).
Newcomb allowed a run on two hits while striking out four and walking three.
Both starters hit a batter.
The Braves loaded the bases with one out in the first against Eickhoff, on a single, error and hit batter. Adams delivered a run with a sacrifice fly, Markakis another with a double.
Flowers’ sac fly in the fifth made it 3-1.
Newcomb’s finest moments came after the Phils, trailing by two, put two on with one out in the fifth and two of their best hitters, Altherr and Nick Williams, due.
Newcomb fell behind Altherr 2-0 before evening the count with a changeup and a curveball. Altherr then flew out to short right on another change.
Williams skied to center on a 2-2 curve.
Bullpen report
Jesen Therrien pitched a scoreless inning in his major league debut, and Hoby Milner blanked the Braves in the seventh. Pedro Beato, just up from Lehigh Valley, retired the first two hitters he saw in the eighth, but then departed after pulling up lame as he ran to cover first.
Luis Garcia came on to strike out pinch hitter Danny Santana, then tiptoed through a two-on, none-out jam in the ninth.
Atlanta’s Jose Ramirez worked two hitless innings, striking out three. Arodys Vizcaino gave up Altherr’s run-scoring hit in the eighth.
Vizcaino struck out Williams, and Freddie Freeman, who this year has moved from first to third, made a backhand stop on Tommy Joseph’s screamer to begin an around-the-horn double play, ending the inning.
Johnson frittered away his eighth save in 30 opportunities when Herrera homered off him with one out in the ninth.
At the plate
Herrera lined a first-pitch fastball from Johnson into the seats in left-center to knot the game.
Herrera also battled Newcomb through a six-pitch at-bat in the fourth before grounding a 1-2 slider back through the middle for his RBI single.
Cesar Hernandez led off the eighth with his second hit of the night, a triple, and Altherr lined Vizcaino’s 2-2 pitch – a 98 mph fastball – into right field to bring home the run.
Brandon Phillips and Markakis had three hits each for Atlanta. Markakis is now five away from 2,000 in his career.
Medical report
The Braves placed OF Matt Kemp on the 10-day disabled list with the hamstring pull he sustained Friday night.
Up next
RHP Vince Velasquez (2-6, 5.49) takes the mound against RHP R.A. Dickey (6-7, 4.31) on Sunday at 1:35 p.m.