Alec Bohm's walk-off triple vs. Cardinals in extras gives Phillies seventh win in a row
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PHILADELPHIA — 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 inning 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 are now trail the Braves by four games for the National League East division lead.
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 St. Louis Cardinals hit.
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 four hits and two runs in the sixth inning.
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 two more hits before being pulled for Tim Mayza with an 110-pitch outing in 5 2/3 innings.
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.
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