Following a prolonged stretch of offensive ineptitude, the Phillies broke out the bats in Sunday afternoon's 9-2 win against baseball's best team, the St. Louis Cardinals.
The nine runs marked a season high for the Phillies, who hadn't scored more than four in exactly two weeks. They avoided being swept for the fourth time in five series.
Adam Morgan earned the win in his major-league debut, snapping the Phillies' franchise record of 25 consecutive games without a win from the team's starting pitcher. The 25-year-old lefthander allowed just one run over 52/3 innings.
A no-decision Sunday from Morgan would have tied the Phillies with the 1982 Minnesota Twins for fifth-longest such drought in baseball history.