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The Philadelphia Phillies shoot for a series win over the Miami Marlins when the NL East foes clash Wednesday night.

Erik Kratz and Freddy Galvis each homered off of Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Citizens Bank Park.

Iron Pigs pitcher Jake Diekman puts one across the plate against the Chiefs during 7th inning action at Coca Cola Park in Allentown on Saturday, April 6, 2013.

However, with the Phillies looking for answers in the middle of their bullpen, that was the case, and the 27-year-old righty was recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.

Domonic Brown drove in the tiebreaking run on an infield grounder in the eighth and the Philadelphia Phillies snapped the Reds' six-game winning streak with a 5-3 victory on Friday night.

MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH Late Friday night, Justin De Fratus arrived in Phoenix to join the Phillies bullpen.

After a tough 29-pitch, five-out save on Saturday night for the Phillies in their 3-1 win over the D-backs at Chase Field, Jonathan Papelbon said his availability Sunday for the finale of the four-game series was "a game-time decision." "I'm not sure yet," Papelbon said a few hours before the game.

Jimmy Rollins accounted for two of the three Philadelphia runs and Cliff Lee pitched seven stellar innings as the Phillies edged the Arizona Diamondbacks, 3-1, at Chase Field.

A CROSSROADS is no place to get sentimental, and the Phillies have the mother of all of them looming on the horizon.

School: Syracuse University, '96 When you started with Bonneville Phoenix: December 1, 1999 Favorite sports memory: Game 7, 2001 World Series Least-favorite sports memory: Game 1, 1988 World Series Favorite all-time athlete : Larry Bird, Don Mattingly Favorite sports movies: Hoosiers, Field of Dreams Arizona Diamondbacks' David Hernandez celebrates ... (more)

The first pitch was thrown at 6:40 p.m. Central time, and Jimmy Rollins smashed an Ian Kennedy fastball for a home run.

He barely played Wednesday, but he was the key figure in a key sequence that led to a key Giants win.

Javier Lopez pitched the 10th for the win after Sergio Romo blew his second save in 14 opportunities, failing to finish off Barry Zito's gem.

SAN FRANCISCO The Phillies entered in San Francisco in as precarious of a position as possible in the first full week of May for a baseball team.

In his limited playing time in 2011 and 2012, the Phillies outfielder hit five home runs each year.

Mauricio Robles was a teen-age center fielder when a Detroit Tigers scout spied him playing near his hometown of Valencia, Venezuela.

Solo home runs by Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Domonic Brown aided the pitching of Pettibone in Friday night's 4-1 win over the Miami Marlins at Citizens Bank Park.

After he was thrown out trying to stretch a double into a triple in the third inning Friday night, it became more obvious that his Achilles injury has forever robbed him of the title, "a big guy who can run." In the Phillies ' 4-1 win over the Miami Marlins on Friday night at Citizens Bank Park , Howard went deep for the second game in a row.

IT ALL FLOWS together, Charlie Manuel said a few days ago. You can try to separate the offense from the defense from the pitching, but to do so is to ignore the subtle but crucial impact that each aspect of the game can have on the others.

Guess who hit a homer off a lefty on an 0-2 pitch for the first time in five years and still lost? #RyanHowardscontract - USA TODAY Sports The Phillies went into the eighth inning holding on to a 3-2 lead over the Pirates, with all of the the production level of the offseason and cross-state bragging rights on the line.