Nick Maton ripped a ball of land on the right side of the field in the eighth inning on Thursday afternoon in the national park. He hit the ball hard, but it was a ball that should have been thrown. Instead, he jumped the glove of Nationals second baseman Luis Garcia and fired into the right field.
Two runs scored to tie the game.
The Phillies (69-64) took the lead in the next bat-bat in a 7-6 win over Washington, extending their streak of wins to six games and temporarily moving them to 1 1/2 games of the Braves in the Eastern National League with 29 games to play. Philadelphia fell six runs in the fifth, but scored seven unanswered against an unstable National Bullring. The Phillies ’comeback victory was his seventh against Washington this season, when he pulled out for three or more runs. This set a current baseball record, according to STATS. Six teams got six comeback victories in three seasons against an opponent in one season: the 1912 Red Sox (against the A’s), the 1922 Giants (against the Cardinals), the 1930 Pirates (against the Cubs), the 1939 A (against puppies). The Browns), 1950 Tigers (vs. A) and 2018 Nationals (vs. Phillies).
So yes, some time had passed.
It’s been a while since the Phillies played baseball well in September. But here they are, lending a hand to the NL East Braves and the Reds for second place in the NL Wild Card standings.