After Pat Burrell hit a walk-off home run against the San Francisco Giants on May 2, 2008, Harry Kalas repeated Burrell’s name a second time just to make sure what he had just seen actually happened. That’s about how Monday night’s Philadelphia Phillies victory felt, with Sean Rodriguez, not exactly the most popular Phillie, lining a walk-off home run to help the Phillies secure a crucial victory.
It did appear for a few innings Monday night that Jason Vargas and Brad Miller would lead the Phillies to an important – albeit uninspiring – victory.
With Maikel Franco having been optioned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley (on his birthday) Monday, Miller, one of the players that the Phillies elected to keep over him, ended a scoreless tie in the bottom half of the fourth.