As baseball executives contemplate moving prospects before Monday’s 4 p.m. ET Trade Deadline, Austin Riley and A.J. Minter spent Sunday night at Citizens Bank Park proving the potential value of remaining patient with young players.

Riley tallied a pair of extra-base hits during a 10-run second inning and Minter helped prevent disaster with the big outs he recorded during the fourth and fifth innings of a wild 12-10 win the Braves claimed over the Phillies on Sunday night at Citizens Bank Park.

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“You can’t expect these guys to be polished veterans as soon as they get here,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “It does take awhile and you do have to be patient with them. You’re going to have growing pains.”

Speaking of pains, Riley delivered some when he hit a two-run homer and RBI double during the second-inning eruption that chased Phillies starter Jake Arrieta. As for Minter, he prevented the pain that would have been felt had he not stopped the bleeding by preventing the Phillies from taking the lead in the fourth.

Yep. Between the second and fourth innings the Braves nearly blew a 10-run lead on a day that they hoped would evolve much differently. They acquired Tommy Milone from the Orioles on Sunday morning, flew him on a charter jet from Buffalo to Philadelphia and then watched him allow seven runs over just 2 1/3 innings.

“I’m not chalking it up to the kind of whirlwind day it was,” Milone said. “I still felt OK. I just didn’t get the job done.”

This marked the first time the Braves produced a double-digit run total in an inning since they tallied 11 runs during the fourth inning of an April 7, 2004, win over the Mets. Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox congratulated Julio Franco for tallying two singles as a pinch-hitter in that decisive fourth.

But Cox got through that night without feeling the ninth-inning stress Snitker dealt with until Dansby Swanson calmed some nerves.

After Roman Quinn and Andrew McCutchen pulled the Phillies within a run with back-to-back homers off Will Smith in the eighth, the Phillies’ win expectancy grew to 25 percent, the highest it had been for the hosts since Marcell Ozuna gave the Braves an 11-8 lead with an RBI single.

Swanson brought the Braves’ win expectancy back to 91.3 percent with the solo homer he hit off Heath Hembree in the ninth. The shortstop then protected the resulting two-run lead when he slid on his knee to snare a Jean Segura grounder before throwing to second to begin a double play concluded by Freddie Freeman’s impressive stretch.

“Good God,” Snitker said. “That was about as good as it gets right there. How Dansby got squared up to make the feed that he did, I don’t know. Freddie, that was a great play by him as well. In that kind of game, that is huge.”

Mark Melancon then recorded the final out to notch his 200th career save. But the most important outs of the night were recorded by Minter, who has posted a 0.73 ERA through 12 1/3 innings. The former closer has rebounded from the shoulder issues that led to him spending much of 2019 at the Triple-A level.

Braves right-handed reliever Luke Jackson exited after allowing a Segura single that cut the Phillies' deficit to 10-8 and brought the go-ahead run to the plate. Philadelphia’s win expectancy was 36.6 percent when Minter entered and 25.3 percent when he escaped the threat without any damage. That win expectancy then dropped all the way down to 14.1 percent after he struck out each of the three batters faced in the fifth.

“That was huge what he did,” Snitker said.

Speaking of huge, Riley came up big with the two-run homer he hit off former Brave David Hale in the second inning. Earlier in the inning, he’d matched a season-best with the 111 mph exit velocity generated with the RBI double he lined to the left-center-field gap.

Both of the extra-base hits were recorded against fastballs, a pitch the young slugger went just 2-for-30 against through his first 18 games.

Since exiting Aug. 16 hitting .150 with a .517 OPS, Riley has batted .371 (13-for-35) with two doubles, three homers and a 1.107 OPS. He has gone 9-for-20 against fastballs during this stretch that has conjured memories of the powerful stretch he produced during the first six weeks of his career last year.

“It’s good to see him come out and show what he is capable of doing,” Minter said.