There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:Two Phillies’ wins, two Phillies’ walk offsThe Phillies and Giants were rained out on Wednesday, forcing a doubleheader into existence on Thursday. One can’t say that San Francisco would have won either of these contests had they happened at their regularly scheduled time, but, we can at least believe that they couldn’t have gone much worse. The Giants lost both games, and both in the bottom of the ninth via walk-off.To kick things off in game one, designated hitter Kyle Schwarber hit career home run number 350 to cut the Giants’ early lead in half to 2-1. There would be no more scoring in the game until the ninth inning, from either team.And the Phillies finally scored there in an at-bat that should be studied in a lab. Righty reliever Ryan Walker threw nine sinkers in a row to second baseman Bryson Stott, all either completely outside the strike zone or at least on the far side of it, away from Stott. He managed to foul off the two of those pitches that entered the zone ever-so-slightly while he had two strikes, creating an opportunity for Walker to just miss completely with the ninth and final sinker, which catcher Patrick Bailey setup inside for in order to cross up Stott after all those pitches away, but it instead caught the exact middle of the plate and didn’t do much sinking, either.The result? An RBI triple and a tie game. With Stott on third and two outs, it came down to center fielder Justin Crawford to keep this game from going to extras. Whereas Stott fought and fought until he got a pitch he could drive, Crawford jumped all over the first pitch he saw: a 95.7 mph sinker in the strike zone that he was able to poke toward shortstop, slow enough that Stott could score and he made it to first to beat the throw. The Phillies struck much more aggressively and convincingly in the second game. Shortstop Trea Turner led off with a home run, then Schwarber, playing in left, notched dinger 351 with a back-to-back shot.This was no joke of a homer, either: Schwarber hit this one 446 feet to right-center, obliterating a slider that did not slide nearly enough, and the Phillies were up 2-0.The Giants would continually answer, however, getting a run in the fourth and fifth and then two…
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2026-05-01 17:02:00
