Phillies Complete Wild Win After Catcher’s Interference Call With Bases Loaded

Edmundo Sosa’s Phillies teammates mobbed him beyond first guidelines aft a 3-2, walk-off triumph complete nan Red Sox connected Monday night. In nan moment, it didn’t matter to him that he’d gotten location acknowledgment to a telephone of catcher’s interference.

“To beryllium honest, this feels precisely for illustration a location run,” Sosa said. “The astir important point astir it is that we extremity up winning nan game, and that’s what we went retired to do.”

Sosa clinched nan crippled when, pinch nan bases loaded and nary retired successful nan 10th inning, his cheque plaything connected a 2-2 transportation struck nan mitt of Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez. The Phillies dugout called for a review, which showed location was contact, allowing Sosa to return first and Brandon Marsh to people nan winning run.

“I felt my tube was a small precocious connected nan pitch,” said Sosa, who entered arsenic a pinch-hitter successful nan eighth and singled. “And arsenic I spell done my plaything path, I consciousness for illustration I deed nan catcher’s glove. And I told nan ump that I deliberation I felt something, and I started signaling [to] nan dugout.”

It’s nan first lawsuit of a walk-off catcher’s interference successful a awesome convention crippled since 1971, erstwhile nan Los Angeles Dodgers won connected a telephone against Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench. Willie Crawford was nan batter, Joe Gibbon nan pitcher.

Monday’s play went down arsenic an correction for Narvaez, his sixth of nan season, nan second-most among catchers successful nan majors. Narvaez besides had a passed ball, his fifth, successful nan 4th inning that moved Nick Castellanos into scoring position aft he drove successful nan Phillies’ first run. Castellanos scored connected JT Realmuto’s single.

“I don’t consciousness I was that adjacent to nan hitter,” Narvaez said. “Everything went truthful quick. Really reliable for that to hap successful that infinitesimal to costs america nan game. I return accountability. I’ve sewage to beryllium better. That cannot happen.”

The Phillies person been connected nan different extremity of a quirky walk-off this season: they mislaid successful San Francisco connected 8 July erstwhile Patrick Bailey deed a three-run, inside-the-park location run.

“There’s 2 things this twelvemonth that I’ve ne'er seen earlier successful 40 years,” Phillies head Rob Thomson said. “One is simply a walk-off inside-the-park location run, and 1 is simply a walk-off catcher’s interference.”

The Phillies won without putting a shot successful play successful nan 10th. Marsh started nan inning astatine 2nd base. Otto Kemp, trying to bunt him to third, was walked by Boston reliever Jordan Hicks.

Hicks’ first transportation to Max Kepler was a chaotic transportation that moved nan runners to 2nd and third. The Red Sox intentionally walked Kepler. Sosa went down 0-2, fouled a transportation off, past offered astatine an 86 mph slider, hitting only nan thumb of Narvaez’s mitt to determine nan game.

“It’s strange,” Phillies starting pitcher Zack Wheeler said. “People ever say, I’ve ne'er seen that earlier connected a shot field. It’s conscionable different one. I’m wondering really galore much times you tin opportunity that.”