{"id":171050,"date":"2025-09-21T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171050\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:43:08","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-fall-4-3-against-arizona-diamondbacks-move-2-games-back-of-last-nl-wild-card-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171050\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies fall 4-3 against Arizona Diamondbacks; move 2 games back of last NL wild-card berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ap25264022454293.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zac Gallen held the Phillies to four hits over seven innings, James McCann scored the go-ahead run in the sixth after a double and the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated Philadelphia 4-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona went back over .500 at 78-77 and moved within two games of the final wild-card spot in the National League. Cincinnati, which won Saturday, is one game behind the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Blaze Alexander and McCann hit back-to-back doubles against Phillies starter Aaron Nola to tie the game at 3-3 and Ildemaro Vargas singled off reliever Tanner Banks for the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n<p>Gallen (13-14) struck out nine \u2014 five looking \u2014 and walked two. He threw 103 pitches, equaling his season high. John Curtiss pitched the ninth for his first save as a Diamondback and third of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Alec Bohm homered for the Phillies, who clinched their second straight NL East title last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nola (4-10) went 5 1\/3 innings for Philadelphia, giving up seven hits and four runs. He walked two and struck out four. Nola fell to 0-6 on the road this season.<\/p>\n<p>It took six pitches for the Phillies to take the lead. Harrison Bader had a four-pitch walk and Kyle Schwarber lined a double to left, scoring Bader easily. Schwarber later scored on J.T. Realmuto&#8217;s deep sacrifice fly to center. Corbin Carroll and Ketel Marte drove in runs to tie the game.<\/p>\n<p>Bohm&#8217;s homer, his 10th, was his first since Aug. 17. He was sidelined for two weeks with left shoulder inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Third baseman Alexander robbed Bryce Harper of a single in the eighth, getting a force at second and keeping the Phillies from having two on and none out.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Gallen has an MLB-leading 27 decisions this season, two more than San Francisco&#8217;s Logan Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s Ranger Su\u00e1rez (12-6, 2.84 ERA) opposes fellow lefty Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez (8-8, 5.12) for Arizona in Sunday&#8217;s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live Zac Gallen held the Phillies to four hits over seven innings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2317,7845,5528,13090,363,480,99],"class_list":["post-171050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-bryce-harper","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}