Snake Bitten

Phils Drop Another on the Road on Spivey's Walk-Off Blast

PHOENIX — The slide continues.

For the second straight night, the Phillies took a lead into the seventh inning and for the second straight night, they lost.

Erubiel Durazo, who victimized the Phils for nine RBIs Friday night, struck again, tying the game with a home run. Second baseman Junior Spivey finished things with a walk-off homer off Jose Mesa, and the Phils left Bank One Ballpark with bitter 5-4 defeat — their sixth in a row. The Phils are now 3-18 away from the Vet.

	Larry Bowa and John Vukovich try to convince Bruce Froemming that Bobby Abreu's fifth-inning double was really a home run. (AP)

Luis Gonzalez also homered for the Diamondbacks (28-15), who are 13 games over .500 for the first time this season and have won nine of their last 10 home games.

On Saturday, the Diamondbacks rallied from a 4-1 deficit to get Curt Schilling off the hook. Trailing 4-3 with two outs in the seventh, the Diamondbacks pulled even when Durazo hit his fourth homer in 24 hours, a solo shot off Phillies starter Brandon Duckworth.

Durazo is 6-for-11 with four homers and 11 RBI since being activated off the disabled list Thursday.

After Mike Myers (3-1) held Philadelphia in check in the eighth, Ricky Bottalico worked out of a jam in the bottom of the inning. Myers got through the top of the ninth and the Phillies turned to their closer Jose Mesa in the bottom of the frame.

Mesa (1-3) retired Craig Counsell on a flyout but grooved a 2-2 pitch that Spivey hammered over the left field wall for his fourth homer of the season.

"He left the ball down the middle of the plate," Spivey said. "I got a good swing and good wood on it. I was battling. He was pounding me in. I finally got my timing down. ... I was sitting on fastball. I've never hit a ball that far. It was an unbelievable feeling."

"That was a tremendous at-bat against a very tough pitcher," Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly said. "That's what good hitters do, foul off the tough pitches and wait for the mistakes. He mashed that ball."

Mesa's gopher ball resulted in the Phillies' sixth straight loss.

"Obviously it wasn't where he wanted to throw it," Phillies manager Larry Bowa said. "It just sat there."

Spivey is batting .380 (19-for-50) over his last 14 games and is batting .336 this season. He has been a key component of the Diamondbacks succes, especially with injuries to infielders Matt Williams and Jay Bell.

Duckworth allowed four runs and six hits in seven innings. He walked six and struck out three.

Philadelphia fell to 3-18 on the road and have yet to win a series away from home.

Facing his former team, Schilling allowed four runs and 10 hits in eight innings. He did not walk a batter and struck out 12.

	Brandon Duckworth is greeted by his teammates after singling and scoring off Curt Schilling in the second inning. (AP)

Arizona broke on top 1-0 in the first inning. Spivey doubled and Gonzalez and Durazo walked. Damian Miller was hit by a pitch to force home a run but Duckworth got Steve Finley to bounce out with the bases loaded.

Duckworth got the Phillies going in the third with a one-out single. Jimmy Rollins and Marlon Anderson followed with base hits to knot the score. After Schilling struck out Scott Rolen, Bobby Abreu doubled to deep center field for a 3-1 lead. Pat Burrell gave Philadelphia a three-run cushion with a triple.

"I made mistakes that inning," Schilling said. "The ball to Duckworth and Bobby were good pitches but I hung a curveball to Jimmy. He hammered it. (You) can't do that against them."

But Craig Counsell opened the bottom of the third with a walk and one out later Gonzalez crushed a 3-1 pitch over the wall in center field to get Arizona within a run.

Arizona wasted a leadoff double in the fourth and Schilling stranded two runners in scoring position in the fifth. The Diamondbacks left two runners on in the bottom of the inning.

Duckworth got Counsell to line out with a runner at second in the sixth and Schilling worked around two hits in the seventh.

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