Mayberry plays hero for Phillies

CHARLIE MANUEL said the following about home runs on Monday night: "It's a great way of scoring quick."

The 69-year-old manager was correct, of course. But there's another thing about home runs, especially when they're hit by the home team in an extra-inning game: They can end the game quick, too.

After hitting a game-tying home run in the 10th inning, John Mayberry Jr. lined a walkoff, grand slam in the 11th as the Phillies rallied for a come-from-behind, 7-3 win over Miami last night.

"That one's definitely going to be one to remember, for sure," Mayberry said afterward.

Prior to extra innings, Mayberry hadn't hit a home run since April 27.

"He kind of runs in spurts," Manuel said. "He put some good swings on the ball tonight."

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Mayberry is the first player in major league history to hit two extra-inning home runs with the second being a walkoff slam. He's the first player to hit two extra-inning home runs in a game since Mike Young in 1987 . . . Yes, different Mike Young.

Bob Davidson may want to send Mayberry a thank you note. He also might want to ask for an early checkout at his downtown hotel today.

Davidson, the second-base umpire of last night's game, was booed unmercifully for a healthy 10 minutes between the eighth and ninth innings. Davidson squandered a Phillies rally in the eighth when he ruled interference on a play after Ben Revere slid headfirst into second on a Michael Young groundball out.

The call resulted in a doubleplay, deflating a ballpark that was awakened by the late arrival of the Phillies' offense, most recently when Revere reached first on an error to begin the inning.

"He went in headfirst," Manuel said. "I don't know what [Davidson] was seeing. Bob's kind of getting a little old."

Manuel, 69, is 9 years older than Davidson, who said Revere grabbed second baseman Derek Dietrich's leg.

"He may need some glasses or something," Revere said with a laugh. "My hands were on the ground . . . It's ridiculous. I enjoyed the fans getting on him."

Although they weren't as consistent, the boos continued for Davidson when the game went to extra innings.

Davidson found someone to share the boos with when Antonio Bastardo took over for the Phillies in the 10th. Bastardo walked Juan Pierre to begin the inning and then watched the former Phillie move from first to second on a bunt and from second to third on a stolen base.

Bastardo then gave the go-ahead run an easy path to the plate, too, throwing a slider in the dirt for a wild pitch. Pierre scored to put the Marlins in front, 3-2, and the struggling Bastardo heard from the Philadelphia faithful.

Mayberry saved Bastardo before he won the game.

The reserve outfielder got into a favorable count against Marlins closer Steve Cishek before drilling a 2-2 slider over the fence in left-center. Tie game.

In the 11th, Edgar Olmos took over for Miami. After intentionally walking Freddy Galvis, Olmos accidentally walked Erik Kratz to load the bases.

Olmos responded by serving up three straight fastballs to Mayberry. Mayberry lined the last one just over the leftfield fence to send the patrons of Citizens Bank Park home happy.

Mayberry gave Domonic Brown a day off from his own home-run hitting heroics. Brown went 0-for-5, seeing his eight-game hitting streak snapped.

Thanks in part to Brown's previous two games, the Phillies have won three straight for the first time since May 11-14. They have scored seven runs in all three games.

The Phils do a fairly good job of winning ballgames when their offense shows up by game time: They have won 16 of the last 18 games in which they've scored four or more runs.

The offense was a late-arriving one last night. The Phils entered the seventh inning with one hit off Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco, a fourth-inning single from Young.

Young was also the only Phillie to reach second base in the first six innings. The Phils trailed 2-0 entering their at-bat in the seventh.

Prior to the game, Manuel voiced concern about an offense still missing both Chase Utley and Carlos Ruiz.

"We've got Dom hitting, of course, which is great," Manuel said. "Everything about it's good. At the same time, we still want to get more guys hitting, and we want our offense that's got some flow every day to it."

Manuel received contributions from throughout the lineup after the sixth inning.

Ryan Howard led off with a booming double to begin the seventh and Delmon Young followed two batters later with a 400-foot bomb off the centerfield wall to nearly tie the game. It cut the deficit in half.

After Galvis struck out for the inning's second out, Erik Kratz was summoned from the bullpen to pinch-hit for Humberto Quintero. Kratz hit the third double of the inning to score Young and tie the game.

From the seventh inning on, eight different Phillies collected a walk, hit or reached on an error to fuel the comeback rally.

"It was different," Manuel said of a game when his offense was missing in action for the first six innings. "It was one of those where we got chances, but couldn't push runs across that we needed to. Then we stayed in there and ended up winning the game.

"Usually you have some of these each year. You have games like this. It's always good to win these kinds [of games] because they are the ones that deflate you."

Today on PhillyDailyNews.com: David Murphy writes about the puzzle in rightfiled, a puzzle that includes Mayberry. Also, Ben Revere is quietly catching fire.