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The right fielder, who hit just .191 in 12 games against Atlanta
during the regular season, went 3-for-5 with a double, three
RBIs and a run. He also made a long sliding catch in the ninth
inning to save a likely extra-base hit.
Castellanos had gone hitless in the NL wild-card series against
St. Louis, but on Tuesday he sparked a 12-hit attack. Bryce
Harper was 3-for-3 with a double and a walk and Jean Segura went
2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
"You've got to fight, keep going," Harper said afterward. "You
play 27 outs for a reason. You keep clawing, you keep grinding
and just have good at-bats."
The Braves made it close in the ninth when Matt Olson hit a
three-run homer to straightaway center field against Zach Eflin.
But the right-hander got the next two outs to preserve the win.
"That was a big swing by Olson," Harper said. "(Eflin) kept his
composure, our guys in the field kept their composure and just
played the game."
Olson was 2-for-3 with two walks, scoring two runs and driving
in three, and Travis d'Arnaud went 2-for-5 with a home run, a
double and three RBIs.
"It was good to see us come back and kind of rally late there,"
Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. "At that point in a game
like that we're looking for any positives. We've got to win
three more games and it was just good to see, like they've done
for the last few years."
The Phillies roughed up Atlanta ace Max Fried (0-1) for a
season-high six runs (four earned) on eight hits, one walk and
two strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings. Snitker said after the game
that Fried was still suffering from the flu that caused him to
leave his final start of the regular season early.
"It just didn't happen for him today," Snitker said. "We were
just trying to get him through one more, really. In the past
he's been able to do that. It just wasn't working for him
today."
Philadelphia starter Ranger Suarez pitched around trouble
throughout his 3 1/3 innings, giving up only one run on three
hits, five walks and five strikeouts. The winning pitcher was
Seranthony Dominguez (1-0), the fourth of six relievers used. He
threw two perfect innings in the sixth and seventh with three
strikeouts.
"Ranger didn't throw as many strikes as he normally does,"
Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. "But when he needed to, he
made big pitches and I'm proud of him for that."
The Phillies scored twice with two outs in the first inning
after consecutive singles by J.T. Realmuto and Harper, with
Castellanos and Alec Bohm hitting RBI singles.
d'Arnaud hit a solo homer to start the second inning to cut the
lead to 2-1.
Philadelphia added two more runs in the third on Bohm's
sacrifice fly and an RBI single from Segura.
The Phillies scored twice in the fourth on Castellanos' two-out
single and added another run in the fifth on Edmundo Sosa's
sacrifice fly.
Atlanta cut the lead to 7-3 in the fifth on a two-run double by
d'Arnaud.
The Atlanta bats struggled in key situations, going 2-for-9 with
runners in scoring position and leaving nine runners on base.
Philadelphia now has its two best pitchers set up to start the
next two games. The matchup on Wednesday has right-hander Zack
Wheeler (12-7, 2.82 ERA) against Atlanta right-hander Kyle
Wright (21-5, 3.19).
--Field Level Media
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