@Phillies 3, Reds 2: Did I read this right? With a 1-run lead, Aroldis Chapman started the 9th by walking Delmon Young, on 4 pitches. Then Cliff Lee pinch-ran — and got picked off. But never mind; Erik Kratz homered to tie it …

And Freddy Galvis homered to win it.

• The Phils had no walk-off or tying HRs in the 9th or later this year.
• Their last time with both in a game was in 2010, against the Reds. (Previous game also was a walk-off HR.)
• Their last with both in the same inning was 1959, Gene Freese and Granny Hamner off SP Juan Pizarro. (The same from consecutive batters does not occur in the database, back to 1945.)
• Check out this 1998 doubleheader — just incredible.
• How about back-to-back walk-offs by Johnny Callison, against Warren Spahn and Lindy McDaniel?
• Galvis has more power than you might expect of a little infielder: 6 HRs in 262 PAs. He has kind of a Pedroia swing, no?
• It’s the second time Chapman has ever blown consecutive saves.

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@Indians 6, Mariners 0 — Second time this year that Justin Masterson’s had back-to-back scoreless starts of 7+ innings. He and Kershaw are the only pitchers with 4 such games.

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@Rangers 11, Tigers 8: And I had to go blabbing about how the Rangers hadn’t beaten many good teams … They won 3 of 4 by hammering 3 of the league’s hottest starters for a combined 19 runs in just 10 innings, totaling 28 runs in those 3 wins.

For a while it looked like last raps might be the key to this one, but after Detroit took a 7-5 lead in the 5th, their bullpen and defense imploded and the Rangers hit a lot of balls hard, as they so often do at home. David Murphy came in with a 60 OPS+, next-to-last among qualified LFs, but his 2-out, 3-run HR was the last big blow in a game full of them, supplying the 4th and final lead change. Miguel Cabrera‘s third HR of the game, an impressive piece of hitting, wound up as only window dressing on what I hope will remain Detroit’s worst-played game of the year — one that brought up painful memories.

• Miggy came in with just 3 HRs in 27 games in Rangers Ballpark (though with a .369 BA and 28 RBI), and just one prior 3-HR game — also a loss.
• His first three trips went single, HR, HR, so when he came up with men on the corners and 2 outs, Texas up 5-4, they put him on. And Prince ripped a 3-run double for the lead. Fielder had 2 RBI in his last 11 games, hitting .227 with RISP this year.
• I might have heard them wrong … I thought ESPN said it was the first time a player had 3 HRs, 4 hits, 4 runs and 5 RBI in a loss. That isn’t true; it’s happened twice before in regulation, by Braves Les Bell and Bob Horner (the latter with 4 HRs).
• But regardless of HRs … How long since a batter had 4 hits, 4 runs and 4 RBI in a regulation loss? It happened in Montreal.
• 4 hits, 4 runs and 5 RBI in a loss, regardless of HRs, happened one other time besides the two mentioned above; not a Brave, but an ex-Brave.
• Triple Crown alert: Cabrera’s now 1 HR off the pace, with solid leads in the other departments.

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@Pirates 1, Astros 0 — Pedro Alvarez thought he’d fouled it off. Then he decided to run. And then he didn’t have to. His liner stayed fair down the LF line and dipped into the first row, and that 5th-inning run was all Jeff Locke would need. The southpaw held Houston to 3 singles in 7 innings, none until the 5th, improving to 4-1 with a 2.73 ERA.

• Pittsburgh got just 4 hits themselves. It’s the 10th game this year with both teams at 4 hits or less. There were 20 all of last year. Also the 16th 1-0 game this year; 41 last year.
• Last Pirates HR for a 1-0 win was in 2008, some Canadian dude.

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Mets 4, @Cubs 3: The story was going to be Travis Wood‘s pitching and hitting. After shutting out the Mets through 5, he broke a scoreless tie with a 2-run hammer throw onto Waveland Avenue. But he gave one back in the 6th, starting with a walk to the pitcher and a very wild pitch that set up the runner to score on a single. With 2 outs in the 7th, he hung a 2-and-2 breaker to Juan Lagares, and the rookie who was 6 for 38 lashed his first career HR to tie it (also his first RBI and run). And in the 8th, Daniel Murphy continued his Wrigley rampage with a solo shot on 2-and-0 off Kyuji Fujikawa, who badly missed his target and suffered his first American gopher. (He allowed just 3 over his last 2 years and 98 IP in Japan.)

• Murphy has 4 HRs in his last 4 games in Wrigley (including his only 2-HR game), and a 10-game hit streak in the Friendly Confines. He began this road trip in a deep slump, hitting .258, but has gone 14 for 28 with 6 XBH in 7 games.
• It was New York’s first HR from the leadoff spot since Opening Day. (Anyone remember Colin Cowgill?)
• Wood’s 4th career HR in 153 PAs puts him in the top 30 in HR% among pitchers with at least 3 HRs.

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@Cardinals 4, Brewers 2: Fighting from behind as usual this month, Milwaukee filled the bags with no outs in the 7th. But Jean Segura popped out, and Ryan Braun rapped a full-count pitch into a 5-4-3 DP, completing an 0-4 day with 3 RISP failures. St. Louis got 4 runs on 6 hits in the 4th off the ex-Card Kyle Lohse (1-5, 3.76 ERA), whose run support has been less than half what he enjoyed in any of his 5 years with the Redbirds (combined 55-35, 3.90 ERA). The last run, and last of 5 straight hits, scored on Pete Kozma’s bunt.

• Seth Maness got 5 outs and allowed 5 hits, but was not charged with a run. That exact line hasn’t happened since 2000.
• Norichika Aoki reached 4 times at the top of the order, but got picked off one time, and was caught stealing home in the 1st inning with 2 outs and 2 on.
• All 10 Milwaukee hits were singles. Since 2004, that exact combination has produced a 46-59 record; I’m surprised it’s that good. Brewers are 2-25 without an XBH since 2010.

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@Marlins 2, D-backs 1: It took 3 pitchers in a nervous 9th, but Miami stopped their 7-game skid and won their first home game this month. They mustered just 5 hits and wasted scoring chances in the 3rd and 5th, but Marcell Ozuna’s 2-out double in the 6th scored 2 to crack the scoreless tie.

• Marlins held to 2 runs or less for the 28th time (5-23), 7 more than any other club. On the bright side, they’re 5-7 scoring exactly 2, the most wins and best W% in the majors for such games.
• We’ll be seeing this in freak-play clip reels for the rest of the year, at least.

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@Braves 5, Dodgers 2: In which Atlanta rallies in the 8th again, and Kenley Jansen bags the year’s first specimen of the elusive “Hold/Loss.” Jansen got the last out of the 7th, fanning Justin Upton with 2 aboard. But his 8th started with a single and a 4-pitch walk, so Brandon League was summoned for the even more elusive 6-out, high-leverage save. There have been just 3 of those since 2012, and League would not increase their ranks. The first man sacrificed into an error, and the next 4 each drove in a run, the last on a lovely squeeze play.

• Mike Minor had no decision, but fanned 9 in 6 innings; he has a 2.09 “mulligan ERA.”
• LA collected just 3 hits, which nicely matched their totals of both errors and unearned runs, and gave them 5 hits in two days. Adrian Gonzalez drove in both runs and is a remarkable 16 for 34 with RISP; the rest of the team is at .199 in those spots.
• This is almost too much schadenfreude; I’m starting to develop guilt-based sympathy for Dodger fans.

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@A’s 4, Royals 3: In which we learn that 3 runs may be better than 1 (KC’s tally for Friday & Saturday), but 4 is better still. The Sunday scoreboard was strictly binary, so when the slumping Yoenis Cespedes took a byte out of a Kelvin Herrera sinker, Oakland’s comeback loop was complete. They swept the trio of one-run games, scoring the last 2 runs in each, to boot themselves back over .500 while dropping KC to that middling mark.

• Alex Gordon had 4 hits, but came up just once with anyone aboard (a 2-out RBI single), as the top two went 1 for 10. The main chances fell to Mike Moustakas, who went 0 for 5 overall and 0-3 with RISP, grounding out to end the game with 2 men on. He’s 2 for 30 in RBI spots, two singles. He’s making contact (just 4 Ks), but that only goes so far — not far at all, in the case of balls off the Moustakas bat.
• Herrera has allowed 8 HRs in 81 batters. Only twomen have ever had a year like that, but there is another in action now.
• Not pictured: Rookie David Lough misplayed a leadoff single in the 7th, sending the tying run to 3rd with no outs.
• KC has lost 10 of 13, scoring 3 or less in 9 of the losses, including 5 one-run affairs.

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@Rockies 5, Giants 0: It was a weekend to recover their home-field mojo, and while Colorado made molehills from a mountain of early chances, Juan Nicasio just kept putting up zeroes until the sticks played a pair o’ deuces in the 5th and 6th. The bullpen took it from there, and Rex Brothers ran his scoreless skein to 16 innings. The Rox beat SF 3 straight in Coors for the first time since 2009, but the Jints are still 18-13 there since 2010.

• CarGo’s club prevented this from being the 4th no-XBH game in Coors history.
• A play you don’t see much: Ball four, runner out stealing 3rd — part of Colorado’s frustrating first 3 frames that turned 8 runners, 2 steals, a wild pitch and a balk into just 1 run.
• With Arizona’s loss, one game separates the top 3 in the NL West (with the Padres lying in the weeds).

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@Padres 13, Nationals 4: As the book sayeth: “In the Big Inning were runs created….” The Pads parked a peck of crooked numbers — 3, 4 and 5 — the least of which is usually enough to win a Petco match. Andrew Cashner put forth his 3rd straight quality effort and has a 2.86 ERA through 6 starts. SD swiped 5 bags against Kurt Suzuki, who’s nabbed just 2 of 27. Three came from Everth Cabrera, who has a 5-game steal streak, tying the longest of the last 2 years.

• That was not hyperbole: Teams scoring exactly 3 runs in Petco are 118-117. Four runs makes for a 103-61 mark. (Just for fun: 3 runs in Coors equals 60-252, a .192 W%, equivalent to a 31-131 season. Four runs there is good for 119-198, or a 61-101 year. And both parks are in one division.)
• Nats are 22-15 with Harper in the lineup, 1-6 without. They’re 4-7 in blowout games; 21-11 last year.
• Jedd Gyorko (3-2-2-2, 2 walks) started slow, but he’s slugging .560 in his last 20 games. He hit 30 HRs last year in the minors, and had 74 extra-base hits the year before.

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Rays 3, @Orioles 1: This one just felt like a Bal’mer hangover from Saturday’s gut-punch. And it didn’t help to face Matt Moore, who now has a 2.39 ERA in 6 career starts against them. Tampa has won all 9 of Moore’s starts, and with this sweep, they’ve won 9 of 11 overall and pulled into a tie with the O’s at 23-20. Baltimore tied it in the home 4th, but couldn’t cash a man from 3rd with 1 out (after Adam Jones swiped 2nd and 3rd on consecutive pitches). And Luke Scott homered against his former team in the next inning, providing the final lead. Fernando Rodney logged his 2nd clean save of the year; he had 22 of those last year, but just 27 in his previous 10 seasons.

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@Angels 6, White Sox 2: Jason Vargas stymied the ChiSox for 7 innings, then watched his bullpen try to give it away with walks. One 4-pitch affair wound up as a run in the 8th. Then Ernesto Frieri, working with a 5-run lead in the 9th, walked the bags full before retiring the last 2 men to complete a 4-out save. Erick Aybar drove in 3, doubling his season total of RBI and of hits with RISP (now 2 for 19).

• Jake Peavy came in with 8 walks in 46 IP, but walked 5 on the day, 4 in the 4th to force in 2 runs. He’d only walked in 3 runs in his entire career.
• Chris Iannetta has a .204 BA but a .361 OBP, thanks to 27 walks in 133 PAs — the highest rate of anyone with 100 PAs.
• Chicago accepted a season-high 7 walks, but never got a hit in 7 RISP chances. They’re way last in AL OBP and OPS+ (80), next-to-last in R/G.
• Frieri logged the 18th save ever with a line of 1.1 IP, 0 hits and 3 walks. The last 2 were by Carlos Marmol, 2008 and ’10. Just one other also came with a run charged, in a similar scenario.

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Bonus Saturday Highlights

Jose Molina guns down Nick Markakis stealing — fielding a pitch in the dirt as he came out of his crouch.

The Rays hit 8 doubles, first time in MLB this year and tying the club record. Their 10 extra-base hits is also a club high except for one game in Coors.

I haven’t heard his name much, but Daniel Nava has a 139 OPS+ and 27 RBI, ranked 13th and 7th among 63 qualified OFs.

And I guess we’re bored of Joe Mauer, hitting .351 with 17 doubles and a 156 OPS+.