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