Corbin Carroll cooks, Phillies sleepwalk into final week

The Diamondbacks are fighting for their playoff lives, and it showed on Sunday while the Phillies acted like the complete opposite. Arizona punched Philly in the mouth early and never looked back, cruising to a 9-2 win behind Corbin Carroll’s four-RBI day.

Corbin Carroll wasted no time setting the tone

an RBI single in the first, then a three-run nuke in the second off Ranger Suárez that made it 6-0 before half the crowd even sat down. By the end of the day, Carroll added a stolen base to become the first Diamondback ever with a 30/30 season (31 bombs, 30 bags). That’s how you drag your team into a Wild Card chase, brother.

Meanwhile, Ranger Suárez was a disaster

He looked nothing like the guy who’d allowed just four earned runs in his last 30 innings. Arizona tattooed him for six runs in four frames, and the Phillies spent the rest of the game staring at the scoreboard.

Eduardo Rodríguez did his part for Arizona, scattering six hits over six shutout innings. When the Phillies finally put together some traffic in the seventh, Philip Abner came in and got Kyle Schwarber to roll into a rally-killing double play. Ballgame.

Alec Bohm at least showed up, going 4-for-4 and raising questions about why he isn’t locked into the cleanup spot come October. Otherwise, this one had the vibe of a team that already punched its postseason ticket and mailed in a Sunday.

The loss doesn’t mean much for the Phillies—they’re locked into October as NL East champs—but for Arizona, it’s massive. They’ve now won six of eight and sit just a game back of the final Wild Card spot heading into the last week.

The Phillies open a set with the Marlins on Tuesday with Cristopher Sánchez (13-5, 2.66 ERA) on the mound. They are three games back of the Brewers for the top seed in the National League with six games left before the postseason.

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