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Philadelphia Phillies 5 Los Angeles Angels 3
Status: Final
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Phillies 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 5 11 1
Angels 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
T9 PHI 5- 3 Sosa homered to center (404 feet), Bohm scored,
Crawford scored and Realmuto scored.
T5 PHI 1- 3 Hill reached on bunt single to first, Bohm
scored, De La Cruz to second.
B1 LAA 0- 3 Meckler scored on Painter wild pitch,
Ballesteros to third on wild pitch by Painter.
B1 LAA 0- 3 Meckler scored on Painter wild pitch,
Ballesteros to third on wild pitch by Painter.
B1 LAA 0- 2 Trout scored on Painter wild pitch, Ballesteros
to second on wild pitch by Painter, Meckler to
third on wild pitch by Painter.
B1 LAA 0- 2 Trout scored on Painter wild pitch, Ballesteros
to second on wild pitch by Painter, Meckler to
third on wild pitch by Painter.
B1 LAA 0- 1 Meckler singled to center, Neto scored, Trout
to second.
Edmundo Sosa's pinch-hit grand slam in 9th propels Phillies to a wild 5-3 win over Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa hit his first career grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies roared back for a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.
Sosa connected just two batters after Wade Meckler reached deep into the right field stands to rob Bryson Stott of a three-run homer.
After J.T. Realmuto drew a walk that loaded the bases and chased shaky closer Ben Joyce (0-2), Sosa crushed a low changeup from Sammy Peralta 404 feet to center, far beyond Mike Trout 's reach.
Alex McFarlane (4-1) pitched the eighth for Philly. Jonathan Bowlan got the ninth instead of closer Jhoan Duran , and he put two Angels on base before he struck out Adam Frazier to finish his second save.
Bryce Harper extended his on-base streak to a career-high 30 games with a bunt single in the fourth for Philadelphia, which improved to 2-2 on its nine-game West Coast trip . The Phillies also moved one game behind the Cubs for the top NL wild-card spot.
Reid Detmers yielded one run and eight hits over six resilient innings, but the AL-worst Angels lost their fifth straight with yet another bullpen implosion.
After Alec Bohm and Justin Crawford reached base without a hit off Joyce, Meckler appeared to save the game for Los Angeles with his spectacular running catch on Stotts sinking fly, putting his body onto the waist-high wall of the short porch and sticking his glove in among the fans.
Instead, Sosa connected for the Phillies first go-ahead grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning since Shane Victorino did it in 2009.
Meckler drove in a run on the first pitch he saw in his return from the concussion injured list during a three-run first inning for the Halos, who managed just three singles one after the first.
Andrew Painter recovered nicely from that 28-pitch first in which he threw two wild pitches that brought home Trout and Meckler, facing the minimum 15 batters during five hitless innings afterward.
Phillies All-Star Cristopher Sanchez (16-4, 2.62 ERA) takes the mound Saturday against the Angels' Ryan Johnson (3-7, 5.75 ERA).
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