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 sincere, this feels precisely like a house run,” Sosa mentioned by way of a translator. “An important factor about it's that we find yourself profitable the sport, 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 verify swing on a 2-2 pitch struck the glove of catcher Carlos Narvaez. The Phillies dugout known as for a overview, which confirmed the contact, permitting Sosa to take first and computerized runner Brandon Marsh to attain the profitable run.
“I felt my barrel was somewhat late on the pitch,” mentioned Sosa, who entered as a pinch-hitter within the eighth and singled. “And as I am going by way of my swing path, I really feel like I hit the catcher's glove. And I instructed the ump that I feel I felt one thing, and I began signaling within 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 really feel I used to be that near the hitter,” Narvaez mentioned. “All the things went so fast. Actually powerful for that to occur in that second to value us the sport. I take accountability. I've received to be higher. That can't occur.”
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 through 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 residence run.
“There's two issues this 12 months that I've by no means seen earlier than in 40 years,” Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson mentioned. “One is a walk-off inside-the-park residence 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, attempting 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 determine the sport.
“It's unusual,” Phillies beginning pitcher Zack Wheeler mentioned. “Folks all the time say, I've by no means seen that earlier than on a baseball subject. It's simply one other one. I'm questioning what number of extra instances you may say that.”
