PHILADELPHIA — Edmundo Sosa’s teammates on the Philadelphia Phillies mobbed him past first base after a 3-2, walk-off win over the Boston Pink Sox on Monday night time.
Within the second, it didn’t matter to him that he’d gotten there because of a name of catcher’s interference.
“To be honest, this feels exactly like a home run,” Sosa stated by way of a translator. “The most important thing about it is that we end up winning the game, and that’s what we went out to do.”
Sosa received the sport when, with the bases loaded and no out within the tenth inning, his test swing on a 2-2 pitch struck the glove of catcher Carlos Narvaez. The Phillies dugout referred to as for a assessment, which confirmed the contact, permitting Sosa to take first and computerized runner Brandon Marsh to attain the profitable run.
“I felt my barrel was a little late on the pitch,” stated Sosa, who entered as a pinch-hitter within 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 in the dugout.”
It’s the primary occasion of a walk-off catcher’s interference in a significant league recreation since Aug. 1, 1971, when the Los Angeles Dodgers received on a name towards Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench. Willie Crawford was the batter, Joe Gibbon the pitcher.
The play went down as an error for Narvaez, his sixth of the season, second-most amongst catchers within the majors. Narvaez additionally had a handed ball, his fifth, within the fourth inning that moved Nick Castellanos into scoring place after he drove within the Phillies’ first run. Castellanos scored on J.T. Realmuto’s single.
“I don’t feel I was that close to the hitter,” Narvaez stated. “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.”
It’s the Phillies’ third walk-off win of the season. The primary, towards Washington on April 29, got here on a wild pitch that allowed Bryson Stott to attain. A walk-off on June 6 over the Chicago Cubs got here by way of a Marsh single within the eleventh.
The Phillies misplaced a recreation in San Francisco on July 8 when Patrick Bailey hit a three-run, walk-off, inside-the-park dwelling run.
“There’s two things this year that I’ve never seen before in 40 years,” Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson stated. “One is a walk-off inside-the-park home run, and one is a walk-off catcher’s interference.”
The Phillies received with out placing a ball in play within the tenth. Marsh began the inning at second base. Otto Kemp, making an attempt to bunt him to 3rd, was walked by Boston reliever Jordan Hicks.
Hicks’ first supply to Max Kepler was a wild pitch that moved the runners to second and third. The Pink Sox deliberately walked Kepler. Sosa went down 0-2, fouled a pitch off, then supplied at an 86 mph slider, hitting solely the thumb of Narvaez’s glove to resolve the sport.
“It’s strange,” Phillies beginning pitcher Zack Wheeler stated. “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.”
