Pirates drop Phillies in extra innings on Tabata’s single

Associated Press

Pittsburgh

Jose Tabata hit a game-ending single with two outs in the 12th inning, lifting the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a game without an extra-base hit.

Tabata smacked a sinking liner off of Danys Baez (1-3) into the hole on the right side that a lunging second baseman Chase Utley could not handle. Right fielder Ben Francisco’s throw was not in time, giving Tabata his second RBI of the game when Xavier Paul scored from second. Paul had singling with two outs and stole a base.

Pittsburgh won for the third time in four games.

The Phillies lost their third consecutive game for only the second time this season, despite starter Cole Hamels allowing only one hit in eight innings.

Hamels and Jeff Karstens had dueling one-hitters going through five innings. Karstens was charged with four hits in seven innings.

Daniel Moskos (1-0) earned his first major league win for Pittsburgh, which had the winning run in scoring position in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings.

Moskos worked a perfect top of the 12th — surviving a Carlos Ruiz fly to the warning track in right-center.

The crowd of 33,861 was the Pirates’ third-largest of the season — heavily aided by several thousand Phillies fans who had made the cross-state drive.

The ones who did got to see Philadelphia’s full everyday lineup for the first time this season. Shane Victorino was activated from the disabled list Friday; he, Chase Utley, Ruiz and Domonic Brown had all missed parts of the season thus far with injury.

But having all their regulars available did little to help an offense that ranks a pedestrian 18th in the majors in runs.

Jimmy Rollins led of the game with an infield single, but Karstens retired 15 of the next 16 he faced.