By Morris Phillips

SAN FRANCISCO–All the neat stuff that last place clubs rarely get to do, the Giants and Phillies got to do to each other on Saturday night.

A pinch-hit grand slam, a leadoff inside-the-park home run, a seven-run rally for the winners, and a oh-so-close, five-run rally in the ninth for the losers highlighted the Phillies 12-9 win over the Giants. The fans got into it, appreciating the Giants’ effort in narrowing a 12-4 deficit, and getting the tying run to the plate with the game’s last batter.

Small victories for struggling clubs, no doubt, but enough to, briefly, make the home fans forget that the Giants fell a staggering, 39 games behind the first place Dodgers with the loss.

“You love the fight,” manager Bruce Bochy said of his club. “And you hate to score nine runs and not win the ballgame.”

What was a well-played and competitive game through five innings, relinquished all of that when the Phillies got a pinch-hit, grand slam from Ty Kelly to cap their seven-run sixth. Kelly, from Tracy, got a nice ovation from his friends and family in attendance after lofting a Cody Gearrin pitch into the right field arcade.

“If you make a mistake like they did tonight, he doesn’t try to overpower, he just tries to put the head on it and that’s what he did tonight,” Phillies’ manager Pete Mackanin said of Kelly.

Kelly pinch-hit for Adam Morgan, who threw one pitch and win the game. Jerad Eickhoff started for the Phillies and endured a rough outing. Mackanin pulled Eickhoff with a runner aboard in the fifth, but Morgan retired Brandon Crawford to quell the threat.