Thursday, October 1, 2026
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Alec Bohm was the hero the Phillies needed as they walked it off in 10 innings against the St. Louis Cardinals Friday night, 7-6.
Bohm hit a two-RBI walk-off triple and went 3-for-5 on the night. As a collective, the Phillies had 16 baserunners on the night with 11 hits and five walks.
The win came under the Friday night lights, just the second win in seven games in the City Connect jerseys this season for the Phillies.
Jesús Luzardo started the game and needed only five pitches to record the first two outs against JJ Wetherholt and Iván Herrera. Jordan Walker was next to step up to the plate, being greeted by the fans of Philadelphia raining boos upon the field. Walker’s last trip to Philadelphia was for the 2026 All-Star Week, which included his defeat of Kyle Schwarber in the Home Run Derby.
Walker hit a ground ball to the left field, fielded by a moving Bryson Stott at third base. As Walker approached the bag, Stott’s throw went wide of the bag, allowing Walker to advance to second on what would be recorded as a base hit and a throwing error.
Rookie Joshua Báez, who made his MLB debut last Saturday, then slapped a home run two rows into the stands in right field, scoring Walker to give the Cardinals an early 2-0 lead over Luzardo and the Phillies.
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“It seemed like early he was a little amped up,” interim manager Don Mattingly said on Luzardo post-game. “Throwing really hard… you know, [Báez] clipped him for a homer. Trying to go in and threw it out over. I think both homers were kind of trying to go in and get the ball out over. Be a little amped up it seemed like. Not sure why, but yeah, he settled down after that and just kind of started making pitches.”
After getting two runners on in the first inning but failing to capitalize, the Phillies tied the game up in the bottom of the second. Stott worked a lead-off walk before Brandon Marsh followed up with a double into right field, scoring Stott. Marsh did not wait on the basepath long as J.T. Realmuto went back-to-back with Marsh, doubling into left field, tying the game up at 2-2.
Luzardo then struck out the side in the top of the third, successfully completing the shutdown inning to prevent the Cardinals from responding.
Luis Arraez hit a double of his own with one out in the bottom of the third, allowing Alec Bohm to score on a single into right field. Any chance of a Phillies rally that inning would be cut short, however, as Stott grounded into a 3-6-3 double play to end the inning.
Now with a 3-2 lead, Jesús Luzardo cruised through the fourth and fifth innings unchallenged. When the lineup flipped back to the top for the sixth, however, trouble emerged.
The inning started with a lead-off single from Iván Herrera. Walker then returned to the plate and, on a full count, took a red-zone fastball from Luzardo deep into right-center field for his 27th home run of the season, regaining the lead for the Cardinals 4-3.
Three batters later, with two outs and one baserunner on in the inning, Don Mattingly pulled the plug on Luzardo, bringing in Tim Mayza to finish the inning.
Luzardo ended the day having thrown a season-high 110 pitches over 5.2 innings. He allowed four runs on six hits and one walk, striking out nine Cardinals batters.
Alec Bohm led off the bottom of the sixth inning for the Phillies, looking to start the counterattack. A single into center field did the trick, putting a runner on base for the Phillies. Following a strikeout from Stott, Marsh singled into left field, moving Bohm to second base in the process.
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With two runners on, Realmuto slung a double into left field, scoring Bohm to tie the game up at 4-4. Marsh, now at third, Justin Crawford had his second sacrifice at the plate on the day, a sacrifice fly into center field to score Marsh, taking back a one-run lead for the Phillies at 5-4.
When the top of the eighth inning came around, Orion Kerkering allowed a lead-off single to pinch hitter Alec Burleson. Following a passed ball and a groundout, Burleson was on third base for the Cardinals as Everson Pereira was hit by a pitch. After a call to the bullpen, Brooks Raley allowed a single to Bryan Torres, scoring Burleson to tie the game up at 5-5.
Jhoan Durán walked out onto the field with a sold-out crowd cheering on “El Incomprendido” in the top of the ninth. It was a tie game, not a save situation, but a high-leverage spot for the Phillies. The top of the order was due up for the Cardinals, necessitating the Phillies to shut them down.
Durán struck out Wetherholt, then Herrera, to put the first two batters out safely. On a 0-2 count, Walker fought off an inside splitter, breaking his bat in the process. As the barrel of his bat hurdled ahead of the ball towards short stop, Turner fielded the ball cleanly but could not complete the throw in time to get Walker out at first.
The effort would be in vain for Walker, however, as Burleson followed up with a ground ball up the middle, perfectly positioned for Turner to step on second for the third out of the inning.
With the top of their own order up, the Phillies were well-positioned to end the game in the bottom of the ninth. The Cardinals sent Luis Gastelum to the mound to stop them.
The top of the order went down one-two-three as game one of the weekend series went to extra innings.
Alex McFarlane entered to pitch for the Phillies in the top of the 10th inning. Allowing a one-out single to José Fermín, McFarlane allowed the placed runner to score, but not much else. A perfectly timed 1-4-3 double play ended the inning, returning a modicum of momentum to the Phillies as Bryce Harper stepped out to second base as the placed runner for the bottom of the 10th.
Down by one, Luis Arraez stepped to the plate. Arraez advanced Harper 90 feet with a single into right field, putting the tying run at third and the game-winning run at first.
On a 2-2 count, Alec Bohm was the hero.
Connecting on a sweeper, Bohm drove a line drive to Monty’s Angle, barely sneaking past a diving Fermín in center field. As the throw came in, Arraez dove into home, securing the Phillies’ win in walk-off fashion.
“Right now he's going good,” Mattingly said on Bohm after the game. “He's kind of a collector; he collects those RBIs, so he's kind of one of those guys.”
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The two-RBI triple put the Phillies on top as they won 7-6 in 10 innings. Bohm went 3-for-5 on the day with three RBI. The three RBI now has Bohm tied with Kyle Schwarber for the lead with 74 RBIs on the season for the Phillies.
His walk-off hit was his first since September 2023. In his last nine games, Bohm has batted .459 with a 1.217 OPS.
With the win, the Phillies have now won seven straight games. They will seek to make it eight games tomorrow as Andrew Painter gets the start in the 6:05 p.m. affair.
