For the first time this season, the Phillies have won three in a row.
They got there with a come-from-behind, 4-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night.
Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Phillies rallied for three runs against Arizona’s bullpen to take the lead. Freddy Galvis tied the game with a two-run single and Jeff Francoeur put the Phils ahead with a pinch-hit, RBI single.
Luis Garcia got the final six outs for his first big-league save.
The Phillies are 14-23. This is their first three-game win streak since Aug. 24-27 of last season.
Starting pitching report
Chad Billingsley continued to improve in his third start back from a pair of elbow surgeries. He pitched into the seventh and exited with a 1-0 lead, but was ultimately responsible for two runs in the seventh.
Billingsley allowed a walk and a single to open the seventh. Justin De Fratus inherited the runners and both scored.
Billingsley gave up seven hits, walked one and struck out two.
Arizona’s Chase Anderson allowed three hits and a run over 5 1/3 innings. He walked three and struck out three.
Bullpen report
De Fratus got the first two batters he faced in the seventh, but allowed a game-tying RBI single to A.J. Pollack and a booming two-run double to center to Paul Goldschmidt as the Diamondbacks turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 lead.
Lefty Elvis Araujo retired the only batter he faced in the top of the seventh and earned his first major-league win.
Garcia pitched shutdown ball in the eighth and ninth innings to earn his first big-league save. Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon got the night off.
Daniel Hudson and Oliver Perez could not protect Arizona’s lead in the seventh.
At the plate
The Phillies were just 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position before Galvis and Francoeur came through in the seventh. Carlos Ruiz and Cesar Hernandez got the inning started with a pair of singles.
Chase Utley had a second-inning double.
Maikel Franco, called up earlier in the day from Triple A, went 0 for 4.
Francoeur is 3 for 6 with three RBIs as a pinch-hitter.
Goldschmidt has 30 RBIs.
Lineup shuffle
Utley, who entered the game hitting .118, lowest in the majors, was dropped from third to sixth in the batting order (see story).
Up next
The series continues Saturday night with right-hander Jerome Williams (2-3, 5.21) opposing Arizona right-hander Archie Bradley (2-0, 1.80). Bradley has not pitched since April 28 when he was struck in the face by a line drive and required time on the disabled list.