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Phillies complete wild win after catcher's interference call with bases loaded
Phillies complete wild win after catcher's interference call with bases loaded

The Guardian

time18 hours ago

  • Sport
  • The Guardian

Phillies complete wild win after catcher's interference call with bases loaded

Edmundo Sosa's Phillies teammates mobbed him beyond first base after a 3-2, walk-off win over the Red Sox on Monday night. In the moment, it didn't matter to him that he'd gotten there thanks to a call of catcher's interference. 'To be honest, this feels exactly like a home run,' Sosa said. 'The most important thing about it is that we end up winning the game, and that's what we went out to do.' Sosa clinched the game when, with the bases loaded and no out in the 10th inning, his check swing on a 2-2 pitch struck the glove of Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez. The Phillies dugout called for a review, which showed there was contact, allowing Sosa to take first and Brandon Marsh to score the winning run. 'I felt my barrel was a little late on the pitch,' said Sosa, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the eighth and singled. 'And as I go through my swing path, I feel like I hit the catcher's glove. And I told the ump that I think I felt something, and I started signaling [to] the dugout.' It's the first instance of a walk-off catcher's interference in a major league game since 1971, when the Los Angeles Dodgers won on a call against Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench. Willie Crawford was the batter, Joe Gibbon the pitcher. Monday's play went down as an error for Narvaez, his sixth of the season, the second-most among catchers in the majors. Narvaez also had a passed ball, his fifth, in the fourth inning that moved Nick Castellanos into scoring position after he drove in the Phillies' first run. Castellanos scored on JT Realmuto's single. 'I don't feel I was that close to the hitter,' Narvaez said. 'Everything went so quick. Really tough for that to happen in that moment to cost us the game. I take accountability. I've got to be better. That cannot happen.' The Phillies have been on the other end of a quirky walk-off this season: they lost in San Francisco on 8 July when Patrick Bailey hit a three-run, inside-the-park home run. 'There's two things this year that I've never seen before in 40 years,' Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. 'One is a walk-off inside-the-park home run, and one is a walk-off catcher's interference.' The Phillies won without putting a ball in play in the 10th. Marsh started the inning at second base. Otto Kemp, trying to bunt him to third, was walked by Boston reliever Jordan Hicks. Hicks' first delivery to Max Kepler was a wild pitch that moved the runners to second and third. The Red Sox intentionally walked Kepler. Sosa went down 0-2, fouled a pitch off, then offered at an 86 mph slider, hitting only the thumb of Narvaez's glove to decide the game. 'It's strange,' Phillies starting pitcher Zack Wheeler said. 'People always say, I've never seen that before on a baseball field. It's just another one. I'm wondering how many more times you can say that.'

Phillies make history with bizarre walk-off, extra-inning win vs. Red Sox
Phillies make history with bizarre walk-off, extra-inning win vs. Red Sox

Yahoo

time20 hours ago

  • Sport
  • Yahoo

Phillies make history with bizarre walk-off, extra-inning win vs. Red Sox

The Philadelphia Phillies earned a historic walk-off win against the Boston Red Sox on Monday, July 21 in the most absurd possible way. With the score tied 2-2 after nine innings and the Red Sox failing to score in the top of the 10th inning, the Phillies began the bottom of the frame with Brad Marsh, who had made the last out in the bottom of the ninth, on second, per Major League Baseball's extra-inning rules. Otto Kemp, who squared up to bunt Marsh to third, instead took first base on a four-pitch walk. Red Sox pitcher Jordan Hicks then threw a wild pitch to move the runners to second and third before the Red Sox intentionally walked Max Kepler to try to set up a force out at home. That brought Edmundo Sosa to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out. On the fifth pitch of Sosa's at-bat, the Phillies second baseman appeared to check his swing on a ball outside, but the Phillies dugout immediately challenged. Not the check swing or the ball-strike call, but for something entirely different – catcher's interference. Moments later the catcher's interference was confirmed, giving the Phillies a walk-off 3-2 win to the delight of the Philadelphia crowd at Citizens Bank Ballpark. According to MLB's Sarah Langs, it marked just the second walk-off catcher's interference in at least the divisional era (1969), joining a Los Angeles Dodgers victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 1, 1971 – with Hall of Famer Johnny Bench behind home plate for the Reds. The Phillies on Monday night achieved their victory with no balls put in play, only making contact once in the bottom of the 10th when Sosa fouled off the fourth pitch of his at-bat, right before the catcher's interference. Max Lazar earned the win for Philadelphia after striking out two in a scoreless 10th. Zach Wheeler started for the Phillies and struck out 10 in six innings, while giving up both Red Sox runs. Walker Buehler started for Boston, going seven innings and allowing two runs, though one was unearned. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast. Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Phillies top Red Sox on catcher's interference in walk-off win in 10th

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