ATLANTA _ Winning in dramatic fashion has become a thing for the Braves and Brandon Phillips, who got a walk-off win for the second day in a row Sunday against the Marlins.
Phillips, aka "Dat Dude," hit a one-out RBI single in the ninth inning to give the Braves a 5-4 win against the Marlins on Sunday at SunTrust Park, one day after he hit a walk-off single in the 10th inning to beat the Marlins.
Phillips has eight walk-off hits in his career and two for the Braves, both of those this weekend.
After Johan Camargo reached on a one-out infield single and went to third on Ender Inciarte's single, Phillips hit a ground-ball single up the middle to give the Braves their 11th win in their last at-bat, after they entered Sunday tied for the major league lead in that category.
Camargo, a rookie, had also played a big role in the Braves' four-run seventh inning Sunday when they erased a 2-0 deficit.
For six innings Sunday, the Braves appeared headed for a fifth offensively challenged loss in six home games and Marlins starter Jose Urena was in line for his fourth consecutive win.
Then the Braves, after managing one hit through six innings, got five hits and four runs in the seventh to turn a two-run deficit into a two-run lead, putting them in position for second consecutive late-innings comeback win to clinch the series.
However, it took reliever Jose Ramirez just two batters in the eighth inning to give back the lead on a Marcell Ozuna home run after a leadoff walk by Christian Yelich. If the Braves were going to pull out a late-innings win, they'd have to take the lead twice.
And they did. Against a Marlins team that had won 14 of 20 games before losing two Saturday and Sunday.
Urena was a different kind of effectively wild, hitting three batters with pitches before the end of the third inning but allowing just one hit and one walk through six innings. He wasn't charged with a run until after he left the game following two singles to start the seventh.
Braves manager Brian Snitker was ejected for arguing after Matt Adams struck out looking to end the sixth inning, an inning that saw the Braves draw two walks within the first three batters but fail to talk advantage.
The only scoring before the Braves' four-run seventh inning came on Justin Bour's two-run single in the sixth against Braves starter Mike Foltynewicz, who allowed seven hits, two runs and two walks with four strikeouts in six innings.
Bour has a career-high 11 homers, 30 RBIs and an OPS above 1.000 in 37 games against the Braves, but he's hardly just an Atlanta nemesis: In his past 25 games before Sunday, he hit .395 with 13 homers, 24 RBIs and a .458 OBP and 1.354 OPS. He had six hits, three homers and four RBIs in five games against the Braves in that span, then added two more hits and two RBIs Sunday.
The Braves failed to score after loading the bases with none out in the second inning and didn't get another runner past first base until the seventh inning, when Kurt Suzuki and Dansby Swanson got consecutive singles to start the inning and chase Urena from the game.
With runners on the corners, reliever David Phelps entered the fray to face rookie Rio Ruiz, who hit towering sacrifice fly to cut the lead in half, 2-1. Next up was another rookie, pinch-hitter Camargo, whose single to center scored Swanson with the tying run.
Endere Inciarte followed with the Braves' fourth single in five batters and Camargo hustled from first to third on the hit to shallow center, cooly blowing a bubble as he slid into third on a close play.
In came another right-handed reliever, Nick Wittgren, whose first pitch was driven the other way down the third-base line by Nick Markakis to drive in two more runs and give the Braves a 4-2 lead.
After getting one hit in the first six inning, the Braves got five hits (all singles) in the seventh before the second out of the inning, using that barrage coupled with a walk and a sac fly to turn a two-run deficit into a two-run lead.
Foltynewicz allowed only one runner to advance past first base through five innings, that in the third when JT Riddle drew a leadoff walk, advanced on a sacrifice bunt, went to third on Dee Gordon's infield hit before getting caught in a rundown between third and home when Giancarlo Stanton struck out for an inning-ending double play.
But third time through a lineup has been a weakness for him, and it was again Sunday. Leadoff man Dee Gordon marked the beginning of the third time through the order by starting the sixth inning with a single, and one out later Christian Yelich singled to put runners on first and second. Marcell Ozuna walked to load the bases before Justin Bour's two-out single to center gave the Marlins a 2-0 lead.
Derek Dietrich followed with another single _ that made it four hits, two walks by the first seven batters of the inning _ before Foltynewicz struck out A.J. Ellis and got JT Riddle on a fly-out to end the inning. But the damage was done and it was a two-run deficit on a day when the Braves had only one hit to that point of the game and had advanced a runner past first base in only one inning.
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