Padres use five-run inning to rally past Phillies, tie NLCS
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[October 20, 2022] SAN
DIEGO -- Down by four runs and on the verge of a second straight
home loss, the San Diego Padres rediscovered their offense on
Wednesday in time to level the National League Championship Series.
Brandon Drury and Josh Bell homered on back-to-back, second-inning
pitches to cut the Padres' deficit in half, and San Diego came up
with a five-run fifth inning to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5.
The comeback leaves the series tied 1-1 before the next three games
are played in Philadelphia. Game 3 is scheduled for Friday.
The Phillies grabbed a 4-0 lead in the top of the second against
Padres starter Blake Snell, but he bounced back with three scoreless
innings and emerged as the winner.
Drury and Bell went deep off Phillies starter Aaron Nola (2-1) to
put the Padres on the board.
Ha-Seong Kim singled to open the San Diego fifth. One out later, he
scored from first when Padres catcher Austin Nola singled to
right-center off his brother, making the score 4-3. After Jurickson
Profar singled to move Austin Nola to third, Juan Soto doubled into
the right field corner to tie the game.
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"There was a lot of hard contact on Aaron in the fifth," Phillies
manager Rob Thomson said. "And he missed on location on a couple key
0-and-2 pitches."
Aaron Nola struck out Manny Machado before left-hander Brad Hand
entered to face left-handed-hitting Jake Cronenworth, who had struck
out twice earlier. Cronenworth was hit by a pitch to load the bases
for Drury, who hit a two-run single to center. Bell then pulled a
base hit past first baseman Rhys Hoskins to make the score 7-4.
It was the Padres' second five-run inning in their past three
postseason games.
"Something we've shown here in the postseason, we have the ability
to put up a crooked number," Padres manager Bob Melvin said of the
decisive rally. "Just not scratching one across the board, we know
if we put together good at-bats, we can put together multiple runs
in an inning."
Machado extended the lead to 8-4 with a leadoff homer against
Phillies reliever David Robertson in the seventh. Hoskins countered
with a homer off Robert Suarez leading off the eighth.
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Phillies starting pitcher Aaron Nola (27) throws pitch in the first
inning against the San Diego Padres during game two of the NLCS for
the 2022 MLB Playoffs at Petco Park. Mandatory Credit: Jayne
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Snell (2-0) yielded four runs on five hits and a
walk while striking out six in five innings.
Nick Martinez followed Snell with two scoreless innings. Suarez
worked the eighth, and Josh Hader picked up his fourth save of the
postseason, striking out the side in the ninth.
The Phillies took advantage of three San Diego defensive miscues,
three opposite-field hits and a broken-bat single to score the
game's first four runs in the second.
"That was not our cleanest inning in the world," Melvin said. "There
was a lot of soft-serve. At one point, it looked like we were never
going to get out of it. Blake did a great job keeping making
pitches."
Bryce Harper opened the inning with a soft, line-drive single to
center over the leap of shortstop Kim. Nick Castellanos then dropped
an opposite-field, bloop single behind first with Harper stopping at
second.
Alec Bohm drove in Harper with the game's first run on an
opposite-field single, reaching second when right fielder Soto fired
high to third in an unsuccessful attempt to throw out Castellanos.
Matt Vierling then hit a drive to right that Soto lost in the sun.
Castellanos scored on the double, but Bohm had to stop at third.
Edmundo Sosa followed with a broken-bat liner to left that fell in
front of a tentative Profar, scoring Bohm. Vierling scored when Kyle
Schwarber hit a sharp grounder to first baseman Drury, who
potentially had a play at home. However, the ball rolled behind
Drury, who recovered in time to get the out at first.
"It was a weird, tough-luck inning," Snell said. "I kept making good
pitches and they kept dropping them in on weak contact."
Snell retired 11 of the last 12 hitters he faced.
Aaron Nola had retired nine straight until facing Kim to open the
decisive fifth. He wound up charged with six runs on seven hits and
no walks in 4 2/3 innings. Aaron Nola fanned six.
--By Bill Center, Field Level Media
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