Final Score: Phillies 6, Giants 5
24 hours after he hit sixth for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in a win over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Nick Maton played the hero for the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, helping them to snap a four-game losing streak in a win over the San Francisco Giants.
Maton started at second base for Joe Girardi and company Wednesday, and drove in three of the team’s six runs. The first of those came on a successful safety squeeze that plated Odúbel Herrera in the bottom of the fourth inning.
The second and third RBIs came in a more traditional manner, with Maton and Kyle Schwarber each hitting two-run home runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, helping the Phillies to erase a 5-2 deficit to take the lead:
While Aaron Nola temporarily surrendered the lead in a disastrous top of the sixth inning, the trio of Cristopher Sánchez, Brad Hand and Corey Knebel kept the giants off the board after the Phillies regained the lead.