Sean Rodriguez led off the bottom of the 11th inning with a home run to give the Philadelphia Phillies a 6-5 win over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night.
Rodriguez stroked a 1-2 slider from Michael Feliz (2-4) down the left field line for his fourth homer of the season. The Phillies moved to within one game of the second National League wild-card spot, currently held by the idle Chicago Cubs.
“I want to win. That’s why I’m still playing, that’s why I’m here,” Rodriguez said.
Brad Miller, Bryce Harper and Corey Dickerson also clubbed homers, and J.T. Realmuto had three hits for the Phillies.
Harper (1-for-5) returned to the lineup after missing the three-game series over the weekend in Miami on the paternity list due to the birth of his son back home in Las Vegas.
Phillies second baseman Scott Kingery (abdominal soreness) left the game after six innings.
Mike Morin (1-0) tossed two innings of two-hit relief. Pittsburgh’s Kevin Newman went 2-for-6 and drove in two runs for a 4-2 lead in the seventh, and Bryan Reynolds, Melky Cabrera, Colin Moran and Adam Frazier each notched two hits. Josh Bell hit a solo homer.
After Realmuto led off the home half of the fourth with a single, Pittsburgh starter Joe Musgrove recorded a pair of strikeouts before the lefty-hitting Miller crushed an 0-1 fastball to left-centre field with the wind blowing out that way.
The two-run shot - Miller’s fifth homer of the year - easily cleared the wall, and Statcast estimated the blast at 434 feet.
Musgrove helped himself in the fifth after Phillies starter Jason Vargas got two outs to open the frame. After Frazier doubled, Musgrove ripped a liner off the wall in left field to plate Frazier to put Pittsburgh on the board at 2-1.
Moran tied it 2-2 in the seventh when he doubled to score Cabrera, who opened with single to left. The Pirates then loaded the bases, and reliever Jared Hughes yielded a two-run single to Newman for Pittsburgh’s first lead at 4-2.
In the bottom of the eighth, Harper popped a two-out solo homer, his 28th, to right-centre to trim the deficit to 4-3. Dickerson gave the Phillies a 5-4 lead with a two-run shot two batters later, his eighth. Bell hit a one-out, game-tying homer, his 33rd, in the ninth off Phillies closer Hector Neris. Pirates reliever Chris Stratton worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth by striking out Harper swinging in a seven-pitch at-bat. He also escaped a first-and-second, no-out threat in the 10th.


Rockies snap Braves’ 8-game win streak on walk-off HR
Ryan McMahon hit a walk-off, two-run homer in the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies beat the visiting Atlanta Braves 3-1 on Monday in Denver. Trevor Story had three hits, and Jairo Diaz (5-3) got the win despite allowing the tying run in the ninth inning for the Rockies, who snapped a four-game losing streak.
Matt Joyce and Francisco Cervelli collected two hits apiece for Atlanta, which had its eight-game winning streak ended.
The Monday contest was a makeup of an April 10 game that was postponed due to a blizzard that hit the Denver area. The Braves flew into Denver on Sunday from New York, where they had swept a three-game series from the Mets, and then were flying out Monday night to Toronto for a two-game interleague series against the Blue Jays. 
The Rockies got the win after Nolan Arenado walked to lead off the ninth against Anthony Swarzak (3-4). Jerry Blevins entered and struck out Daniel Murphy, but McMahon followed with his 18th homer of the season to right field to end it.
With the game scoreless, the Rockies finally broke through in the eighth inning. Dom Nunez led off with a double, and after advancing on a groundout by Yonder Alonso, he scored on Charlie Blackmon’s sacrifice fly to right to give the Rockies a 1-0 lead. 
The Braves tied it in the ninth when Cervelli led off with a triple and pinch runner Billy Hamilton scored on a sacrifice fly by Adeiny Hechavarria. Both starters got a no-decision despite neither giving up a run. Atlanta right-hander Julio Teheran struck out four and allowed three hits and three walks through six shutout innings. Colorado right-hander Tim Melville fanned six in five innings while giving up five hits and three walks.
The Braves had a runner on in each of the five innings against Melville and had the first real scoring opportunity in the fourth. Freddie Freeman led off with a walk and stole second as Josh Donaldson struck out. 
Matt Joyce singled to left, but Freeman was thrown out at home by Colorado’s Ian Desmond.