What a moment! What a player! Nick Castellanos won the game in the ninth inning and Philadelphia is going crazy. The Mets have been coming back on teams in the eighth and ninth innings all week with their season on the line. Now they know how it feels. The Phillies took the lead in the bottom of the eighth, lost it in the top of the ninth, and then won on Nick Castellanos’ two-out single to even the NLDS at a game apiece. Instead of needing three consecutive wins to advance, the Phillies only need to split Games 3 and 4 in New York to bring the series back to Citizens Bank Park. This game had plenty of late-inning drama. The Phillies were five outs away from losing both of the first two games of the NLDS at home when Bryson Stott tripled in two runs to put them ahead. He scored on a J.T. Realmuto single for insurance, but the Phils’ bullpen faltered again, with Matt Strahm allowing a game-tying two-run homer to Mark Vientos with one out in the ninth. This happened a day after Strahm and Jeff Hoffman combined to allow six runs in the eighth inning. Orion Kerkering also allowed a go-ahead homer to Brandon Nimmo in the seventh before Stott’s heroics. Hoffman was able to finish off the ninth.
Phillies give Mets a taste of their own medicine
