MIAMI - These Phillies have defied logic for weeks, and Sunday was no different. In this bizarro baseball world, where a 6-5 win over the Marlins is sparked by an eighth-inning rally that stars Emmanuel Burriss, Tyler Goeddel and Andres Blanco, everything and nothing makes sense.
Burriss, the least-used player on the roster, had not scored a run in almost a month. He scampered home from first base on an eighth-inning double by Goeddel, who had zero extra-base hits in his first 37 major-league at bats. Blanco, a 32-year-old reserve infielder who has remade himself into a doubles machine, followed with yet another to score Goeddel for the team's sixth run.