So it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that on a night when no player had more than one hit and the lineup tallied more strikeouts than hits, the Phillies still found a way to win.

For the second time this season, a crucial late-inning run reached base on a strikeout, and for the second time the Phillies capitalized. They did not hit often, but they hit at the right times.

Eric Bruntlett continued to seize his waning days as a regular, driving in the game-tying run with a double and scoring the game-winning run on a single by Chase Utley as the Phillies rallied in the eighth to beat Arizona, 5-4.

"We just kept battling," centerfielder Shane Victorino said.

The game-winning inning started with a scare as a Victorino strikeout ended with the player sitting on his rear end in the dirt near first base after a nasty collision with Diamondbacks first baseman Conor Jackson.

Victorino had struck out swinging, but ran to first after the pitch got past catcher Chris Snyder. Victorino's body arrived at the base a split second before Snyder's throw, and as Jackson reached out to attempt the catch, the players collided. Victorino landed hard on his backside after Jackson clotheslined him.

Victorino, who came off the disabled list only last week, took off his helmet and slammed it in frustration.

Both players remained on the ground for a couple of minutes as trainers and coaches tended to them. "I just kind of had to gather myself," said Victorino. "It wasn't to the point where I was really worried."

Jackson ended up leaving the game, but Victorino remained and was immediately pressed into action as Bruntlett doubled down the leftfield line. Victorino scored easily from first, tying the game at 4-4.

The play called to mind the Phillies' 4-3 win over the Astros in mid-April, when Geoff Jenkins reached base on a strikeout and ultimately scored the game-winning run.

Victorino's run didn't win the game, but Bruntlett's did, as he scored from second on Utley's single up the middle.

Brad Lidge then pitched a perfect ninth, striking out two, for his eighth save of the season.

For a while, it looked as if the Phillies' cool bats would prove to be their doom.

They were outhit by the Diamondbacks, 13-7. Against Arizona starter Micah Owings, who went seven innings, they had more strikeouts (seven) than hits (four).

But as they have all season, the Phillies made their hits count.

In the third inning, Carlos Ruiz led off with a single, then scored on Victorino's single to center.

In the seventh, Jenkins hit a one-out single to rightfield, setting the stage for Pedro Feliz' two-run home run that tied the game, 3-3. The Diamondbacks, meanwhile, had the opposite experience.

Despite getting 10 hits off Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick, they scored just three runs off the righthander in his six innings. They put men on base in the first eight innings, but scored runs in just the first and the fifth.

In the first, Stephen Drew's two-out single scored Augie Ojeda and gave the Diamondbacks an early 1-0 lead.

In the fifth, Kendrick gave up a solo home run to Chris Young and a triple to Ojeda to start the inning. Ojeda eventually scored on Jackson's groundout, but that was the extent of the damage.

Ryan Madson replaced Kendrick to start the seventh, but allowed hits to two of the three batters he faced, including an RBI double by Jackson that scored Eric Byrnes from second.

But the bullpen, solid all season, got another chance in the eighth after the Phillies rallied to take the lead. Tom Gordon allowed a leadoff double to Young, but recorded three straight outs to escape the inning.

And Lidge pitched the ninth for his 16th consecutive scoreless inning.

There were some disconcerting aspects of the win. Ryan Howard reached 50 strikeouts with a hat trick of K's. Pat Burrell went 0-for-3 and has six hits in his last 32 at-bats.

But the most important numbers to escape from the game were these: 20 wins, 15 losses.

"In this game," said Kendrick, "the only fun you have is when you're winning." *

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