Alec Bohm’s walk-off triple vs. Cardinals in extras gives Phillies their seventh straight win
The win put the Phillies just four games behind the Braves in the National League East standings.
It’s MLB Players’ Weekend, but Phillies fans were treated on Friday night with extra innings and a walk-off win.
Alec Bohm, who entered Friday’s game with a .288 average this season with runners on base, hit a walk-off two-run triple in the bottom of the 10th to extend the Phillies’ longest win streak of the season with a 7-6 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The team’s seventh straight win is the most since a nine-game streak in May 2025. It was the Phillies’ 11th extra inning game this season.
The last time the Phillies lost, it was to the Cardinals after dropping two of three in St. Louis between Aug. 10-12. They now trail the Braves by four games for the National League East division lead.
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With Bohm up to bat and a runner at first and third, interim manager Don Mattingly said he felt pretty confident in the first-baseman’s ability to drive the run in.
“The way he’s going, yeah, fairly confident when he’s up there,” Mattingly said “I mean, obviously, right now he’s going good, and he’s a collector, he collects those RBIs.”
Bohm, who currently has 74 RBIs this season, has felt a similar confidence at the plate lately. This month, Bohm’s batting average jumped from .226 in July to .351 in August. With the way he’s been performing and the team’s recent success, there is an ease that comes with it.
“I mean it’s definitely easier to just be a little more relaxed in there and just not try to do too much and just be a little more disciplined and a little more patient,” Bohm said. “All those things are I think come a little bit easier when you’ve seen some success recently and you’re not chasing results and all those things.”
In St. Louis, the Phillies’ only win that series came against Hunter Dobbins, who was on the mound for the Cardinals on Friday. He exited Friday’s game in the fifth inning with right forearm tightness.
Also keeping a streak alive was Bryce Harper, who walked in first plate appearance to extend his on-base streak to 24 games. But Harper finished the game hitless.
Jesús Luzardo seemed to put his early season struggles at home behind him. And then the sixth inning of Friday night’s win against the Cardinals hit.
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For the first time since June 5, Luzardo allowed more than two runs and surrendered multiple home runs. Luzardo struggled with a 25-pitch second inning, before inducing a fly ball from JJ Wetherholt to get out of a jam. He retired the next nine batters from the third through fifth inning. Then he gave up three hits and two runs in the sixth inning.
Mattingly said he thought Luzardo seemed “amped up” early in the game. Luzardo said he felt more “out of whack” than amped, stating that he felt he was throwing his best fastball and changeup of the season, but his sweeper was lacking.
Home Run Derby champion Jordan Walker upset Phillies fans with a single swing in that inning. Walker went yard with a two-run home run for the Cardinals to retake the lead 4-3. Luzardo allowed another hit before being pulled for Tim Mayza with an 110-pitch outing in 5⅔ innings.
Still, with the offense behind him, the Phillies were ready to be “in a dogfight” which has been a theme since they got their “second wind” coming off a slow start after the All-Star break.
“Whether we strike first or they do, I think we’re never really out of it,” Luzardo said. “Having faith in our ability to whether it’s hold on until we can fight back or you know scratch an early lead.”
After Orion Kerkering gave up another Cardinals run in the eighth inning, Jhoan Duran came in the ninth to try and hold the game even for his fifth appearance in seventh games. Duran, who didn’t appear in the Phillies’ previous series against the Cardinals, only gave up a single to Walker.
Tony Gwynn Jr. is a former major league outfielder and son of late Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn. Over the last two years, he got to know new Phillies second baseman Luis Arraez, whose contact skills at the plate often draw comparisons to Gwynn. Tony Jr. joined Phillies Extra to discuss his father, Arraez, and the bonds that connect them. Watch here.
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