Current:Home > BackThomas’ tying homer, Moreno’s decisive hit send D-backs over Phillies 6-5, ties NLCS at 2 games-DB Wealth Institute B2 Expert Reviews
Thomas’ tying homer, Moreno’s decisive hit send D-backs over Phillies 6-5, ties NLCS at 2 games
View Date:2024-12-23 22:47:39
PHOENIX (AP) — Alek Thomas hit a tying, two-run homer in a three-run eighth inning, Gabriel Moreno followed with a go-ahead single and the Arizona Diamondbacks stunned the Philadelphia Phillies with a 6-5 victory on Friday night that tied the NL Championship Series at two games apiece.
Arizona trailed 5-2 before Orion Kerkering’s bases-loaded walk to Christian Walker with two outs in the seventh.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. doubled leading off the eighth against Craig Kimbrel, who gave up Ketel Marte’s game-ending single in Game 3. Thomas, pinch hitting for Emmanuel Rivera with one out, sent a full-count fastball splashing into the right-center field swimming pool to tie the score 5-5 as a sellout crowd of 47,806 at Chase Field roared.
“That play is definitely something you see in your dreams,” the 23-year-old Thomas said. “So for it to come in real life, for it to happen to me, it’s awesome. Just so grateful to have that moment.”
Marte singled with two outs, Corbin Carroll was hit by a pitch and José Alvarado relieved. Moreno laced a singled to left-center to drive in the go-ahead run for Arizona.
Kyle Schwarber, whose fourth-inning homer sparked Philadelphia’s comeback from a 2-0 deficit, doubled with two outs in the ninth off Paul Sewald, Arizona’s eighth pitcher. Sewald struck out Trea Turner for his fifth save of the postseason.
“Huge contributions from everyone,” Carroll said. “We knew we need it, being a bullpen game. Some huge hits today — almost too many to count. An unbelieveable win.”
Game 5 of the best-of-seven series is Saturday night.
Houston earlier scored three times in the ninth to win 5-4 at Texas and take a 3-2 lead in the AL Championship Series. It was the first time in major league history two teams rallied to win postseason games on the same day after trailing by two runs or more in the eighth inning or later.
Arizona, in the postseason for the first time since 2017, lost the first two games of the series at Citizens Bank Park. The Diamondbacks built a two-run lead against the defending NL champions on run-scoring singles by Rivera in the second and Moreno in the third.
Schwarber’s homer was his fourth of this postseason and the 19th of his postseason career, passing Reggie Jackson for most among left-handed batters,
Brandon Marsh’s two-out RBI double tied the score in the fifth, and the Phillies opened a 4-2 lead in the sixth after three straight walks by rookie lefty Andrew Saalfrank.
Alec Bohm followed with a chopper down the third-base line off Ryan Thompson. Rivera gloved the ball with a backhand grab that took him into foul territory and made an off-balance throw home from near the coach’s box. The ball short-hopped Gabriel Moreno and bounced off the catcher as two runs scored, one on the hit and one on the throwing error.
Trea Turner added a seventh-inning sacrifice fly.
WEB GEM
Gurriel saved a potential extra-base hit in the second with a leaping catch at the left field wall after a drive by J.T. Realmuto.
ARIZONA ICONS
Former Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Three-time NBA All-Star Devin Booker was also in attendance, drawing a large cheer when he was pictured on the video board.
KEEPING IT COOL
The temperature inside Chase Field was 76 at game time. It was 102 outside the retractable-roof ballpark.
UP NEXT
Philadelphia RHP Zack Wheeler (2-0, 2.37 ERA postseason) starts Saturday night against RHP Zac Gallen (2-1, 4.96 ERA).
___
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB
veryGood! (3921)
Related
- RHOBH's Kyle Richards Shares Reaction to BFF Teddi Mellencamp's Divorce
- How Hollywood squeezed out women directors; plus, what's with the rich jerks on TV?
- Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons
- 'Olivia' creator and stage designer Ian Falconer dies at 63
- Kennesaw State football coach Brian Bohannon steps down after 10 seasons amid first year in FBS
- 'El Juicio' detalla el régimen de terror de la dictadura argentina 1976-'83
- This is your bear on drugs: Going wild with 'Cocaine Bear'
- Clunky title aside, 'Cunk on Earth' is a mockumentary with cult classic potential
- Infowars auction could determine whether Alex Jones is kicked off its platforms
- US heat wave stretches into Midwest, heading for Northeast: Latest forecast
Ranking
- Dwayne Johnson Admits to Peeing in Bottles on Set After Behavior Controversy
- Angela Bassett has played her real-life heroes — her role as royalty may win an Oscar
- Folk veteran Iris DeMent shows us the 'World' she's been workin' on
- 5 takeaways from the Oscar nominations
- Chicago Bears will ruin Caleb Williams if they're not careful | Opinion
- New Mexico prosecutors downgrade charges against Alec Baldwin in the 'Rust' shooting
- 'Wait Wait' for Feb. 25, 2023: 25th Anniversary Spectacular!
- Billy Porter on the thin line between fashion and pain
Recommendation
-
Bill on school bathroom use by transgender students clears Ohio Legislature, heads to governor
-
A mother on trial in 'Saint Omer'
-
The U.S. faces 'unprecedented uncertainty' regarding abortion law, legal scholar says
-
The real-life refugees of 'Casablanca' make it so much more than a love story
-
Advance Auto Parts is closing hundreds of stores in an effort to turn its business around
-
'Dr. No' is a delightfully escapist romp and an incisive sendup of espionage fiction
-
At the end of humanity, 'The Last of Us' locates what makes us human
-
LBJ biographer Robert Caro reflects on fame, power and the presidency