Have a day Garrett Stubbs. The Phillies backstop hit a 3 run walkoff homer to top the Marlins 3-1.
Stubbs who was acquired from the Astros during the offseason, finished the game 2/3 with a 2B, HR, 3 RBI’s, a BB, and a run scored. Rhys Hoskins tripled in the bottom of the 6th, he finished the game 2/4. Alec Bohm also had a multi-hit game for the Phillies, who as a team had 10 hard hit balls.
Kyle Gibson kept the game in reach for the Phillies offense, throwing 8 innings of 1 run baseball. Gibson allowed 7 hits while striking out 6. Gibson collected 14 swings and misses, using his arsenal of sinkers, sliders, changeups, and cutters. Conor Brogdon struck out 2 in his lone inning of work.
The only source of run scoring for the Marlins was a solo homer in the 5th inning off the bat of Miguel Rojas. The Marlins offense only had 2 extra base hits, the Rojas homer and a double from Nick Fortes in the 2nd inning. Jon Berti had a multi-hit game.
Marlins reliever Daniel Castano got the spot start, and pitched better than probably even he expected. Castano went 6.2 innings striking out 3, throughout 4 appearances this season he has not allowed a run. Tommy Nance relieved Castano after he threw 105 pitches, Nance struck out Kyle Schwarber on 6 pitches, the only hitter Nance faced in the game. Anthony Bass threw a scoreless inning, lowering his season ERA to 2.08. Tanner Scott was tasked with closing out the game in the bottom of the 9th, unfortunately for him Garrett Stubbs had other plans. Scott threw Stubbs 5 sliders in a row, and on the 5th slider Stubbs hit a 385 foot homer to walk off the Marlins. Tanner Scott’s final line was 0.2 innings allowing 2 hits, 3 earned runs, and a walk.