Daily News | Braves walk off to 6-5 win after Bryce Harper gave Phillies the lead in the top of the ninth
ATLANTA — Bryce Harper had just hammered the go-ahead two-run homer off the facade of the restaurant beyond the right-field fence here Tuesday night when the question arose.Let’s let manager Joe Girardi take it from here.
And, yes, Girardi had some explaining to do, even to Knebel, the closer who pitched two days in a row and absolutely wouldn’t be sent to the mound for a third. Not by Girardi, who refuses to use relievers more than two days in a row until later in the season as a way of trying to keep them healthy. “Nick’s thrown the ball well,” Girardi said. “He threw the ball well in the eighth. If I go to Alvarado there and they tie it up, I’m in a big mess, right? And with the string of right-handers -- they had five right-handers in a row coming up -- I stuck with Nellie.”
“I’ve got to catch that ball,” Quinn said. “It was tough to hear. The crowd was going crazy. But I’ve got to catch that ball.” “We can’t keep doing it,” said Harper, who almost singlehandedly won the game for the Phillies with a game-tying double, a single, and a homer in the last four innings. “We’ve got to win games. Baseball happens. You win, you lose, it’s part of the game. But a game like that, we’ve got to win a game like that.”After tying the game in the sixth inning, the Phillies turned to the bullpen. And hard-throwing James Norwood promptly gave the lead back.
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