The Phillies got on the board quickly in the top of the first with two singles from Shane Victorino and Placido Polanco, a sacrifice bunt by Jimmy Rollins, and an RBI infield single by Hunter Pence. Karstens pitched out of the jam and limited the damage to just one run. He would cruise through five innings after that.
Pittsburgh had nothing going at the plate all day until the sixth inning. Yamaico Navarro got on base with a pinch hit walk and was moved to second on a Jose Tabata single and got to third on an Alex Presley fielder’s choice. Navarro then scored on a wild pitch to Andrew McCutchen and the game was tied. The bullpens took over from there and did great work. For the Pirates, Tony Watson, Jason Grilli, Joel Hanrahan, and Juan Cruz all pitched scoreless innings to get their team to the bottom of the tenth.
In that tenth inning, Rod Barajas set the table with a lead-off double that came just inches away from going for a walk-off home run. Michael McKenry pinch ran for Barajas and was sacrificed to third by a beautiful Clint Barmes bunt. Jose Tabata failed to bring him in with a pop out, but Alex Presley finished the game with a weakly struck broken bat ground infield single. The play was extremely close at first but the Pirates got the call and they were back even at 1-1.