It took a full eight innings for the Phillies to even get a man on base, but they needed only four hits and one run to take their third straight game from the Cincinnati Reds, all of them coming in walk-off fashion.
Rookie pitcher Travis Wood took a perfect game into the ninth, but watched it evaporate as a fresh-off-the-DL Carlos Ruiz hit a leadoff double.
And because Roy Halladay also had a shutout going with only five scattered hits allowed, Wood was pitching to avoid the loss.
He got out of the jam by stranding Ruiz at third, and a scoreless tie would send these two teams into extra innings for the third game in a row.
Brad Lidge, not surprisingly, had the bases loaded at one point in the 10th, but worked his way out of it.
The Phillies weren't able to get a ...
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Carlos Ruiz, Jimmy Rollins Give Phillies Walk-Off Win Over Cincinnati Reds
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Bob Cunningham in MLBComments Off on Carlos Ruiz, Jimmy Rollins Give Phillies Walk-Off Win Over Cincinnati Reds