``If you have Manny behind him and you don't have enough bases to put them both on base, I don't know what you do," Gabe Kapler said. ``It's scary at this point. It's very similar to how [Barry] Bonds was a couple of years ago. His presence at the plate is unreal."
A mob of teammates was ready to burst out of the dugout once Ortiz performed his expected heroics after the game already had seemed lost a half-inning before. On Saturday, in the 10th inning, Ortiz rocketed a walkoff two-run homer to center. This time it was a single, a breaking ball lofted onto the grass in front of the warning track in left-center and just out of Aaron Rowand's reach.
``He's unbelievable," said Coco Crisp, who opened the bottom of the 12th with a ground-rule double. ``You know he's going to come through. [We were] just waiting to jump over the little thing at the dugout to go greet him at first . . . The feeling of him up there is that he's going to come through."
But he hadn't in two previous chances to win the game and let the 36,459 who had skipped work for this rescheduled game go home. Ortiz arrived at the plate to lead off the ninth and a groundout to second was the result. He arrived at the plate again with one out and Loretta on second in the 11th, though with the Phillies intentionally walking him, there was not much he could do.
``You have to, you definitely have to," Ortiz said of staying focused amid the raucous crowd. ``Otherwise you will not concentrate on whatever you want to do out there."
Which was end a game that had teetered in the 12th.
Shane Victorino led off the top of the inning with a single up the middle against Manny Delcarmen and, after he was bunted to second, Hansen was summoned from the bullpen. A groundout by Chris Coste moved Victorino to third, and a double to left-center by Jimmy Rollins gave the Phillies a 7-6 lead over a team that hadn't lost since June 15 at Minnesota.
