PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks played small ball looking for the winning run in the ninth inning http://www.bravesfanproshop.com/authentic-hank-aaron-jersey , and the Los Angeles Angels couldn’t defend it.Angels pitcher Cam Bedrosian threw wildly after fielding a sacrifice bunt attempt in the bottom of the ninth, allowing Jon Jay to score and the Diamondbacks to beat Los Angeles 5-4 on Tuesday night.Jay was hit by a pitch to start the inning, then moved to second on John Ryan Murphy’s sacrifice attempt that turned into a hit. A.J. Pollock then laid down another sacrifice try, and Bedrosian (5-3) attempted to force out Jay at third.The ball soared past third baseman Taylor Ward, and Jay got up and sprinted home.“Whatever way. Whatever way you can win the game,” Pollock said. “Put some pressure on them and make them make a play. It wasn’t the best bunt, but we won the game.”Bedrosian sighed as a he described the moment.“Just rushed it. I heard ‘third, third, third!’ and just turned around and spun and just didn’t get my body set,” Bedrosian said. “Really frustrating.”Diamondbacks closer Brad Boxberger (2-4) pitched a scoreless ninth.David Peralta drove in three runs and came a triple short of the cycle for Arizona Deion Sanders Jersey , which has won five of six in taking over first place in the NL West.“In my opinion, every game is the biggest game of the year from here on out,” Jay said. “These are the fun times. These are when you wake up and are excited to go to the ballpark and every game is something big and this is what baseball is all about.”The Angels rallied from a pair of two-run deficits to tie it, scoring twice in the seventh inning on pinch-hitter Jefry Marte’s home run and David Fletcher’s two-out triple. Fletcher had three hits and two RBIs.Both teams’ starting pitchers lasted six innings but got no-decisions. Felix Pena struck out a career-high 12 but allowed four runs and seven hits for Los Angeles, while Arizona’s Patrick Corbin gave up two runs and five hits and struck out eight.“I felt good. Wish I would have kept it 0-0, but overall I felt fine and everything was working,” Pena said in Spanish.Peralta hit his seventh home run in 12 games, a two-run shot into the Diamondbacks’ bullpen in left field with one out in the first inning. The Diamondbacks lead the majors with 109 first-inning runs.The Angels tied it in the third on run-scoring singles for Fletcher and Andrelton Simmons after Kole Calhoun led off with a double.But the Diamondbacks got to Pena again in the third, stringing together four consecutive singles for two runs to take a 4-2 lead. Peralta and Steven Souza Jr. had the RBI hits in the inning, though Arizona left the bases loaded.Marte homered into the second deck in left field with two out in the seventh off reliever Yoshihisa Hirano http://www.bravesfanproshop.com/authentic-julio-teheran-jersey , making it 4-3. Fletcher tripled off Archie Bradley to drive in Calhoun and tie it.“We scored four and we hit the ball hard with runners in scoring position,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “Those guys made some pitches to get out of trouble.”WILD BATPena swung and missed at a 3-1 pitch in the fourth, and his bat flew into the Diamondbacks dugout and almost struck manager Torey Lovullo.WEEKEND ROTATIONLovullo set his starting rotation for the upcoming series against the Seattle Mariners. Right-hander Zack Godley pitches Friday in the opener, followed by left-hander Robbie Ray and righty Zack Greinke. Ray gets an extra day to do some side work with pitching coach Mike Butcher.TRAINER’S ROOMAngels: OF Justin Upton went on the 10-day disabled list with a cut on his left index finger he suffered Sunday night. … OF Mike Trout (wrist) is expected to rejoin the team at the end of the week, Scioscia said. … P-DH Shohei Ohtani (elbow) pitched a simulated game Monday at the Angels’ spring training facility in nearby Tempe. The plan is to get him up to 45 or 50 pitches in a bullpen session early next week and eventually be re-evaluated to return to pitching as a starter. … RHP Matt Shoemaker will throw a bullpen session on Wednesday, trying to come back from a forearm injury that has forced him out of almost the entire season.Diamondbacks: RHP Shelby Miller (elbow) threw from 75 feet on Tuesday. … OF Jarrod Dyson is fielding, hitting and sprinting as he comes back from a groin injury.UP NEXTAngels: RHP Odrisamer Despaigne (2-1) is set for his second appearance with the Angels. He hasn’t faced Arizona since September 2015 while with the San Diego Padres.Diamondbacks: RHP Clay Buchholz (6-2) faces the Angels in the series finale on Wednesday. He’s made 13 starts against the Angels in his career. The Philadelphia Phillies return to Citizens Bank Park for their penultimate homestand of 2018 in desperate need of some wins as they try to stay in the National League East race.The second-place Phillies will play the three teams behind them in the division during the nine-game homestand, starting Monday night against the Washington Nationals. Jake Arrieta (10-9, 3.61 ERA) will get the start against Washington right-hander Erick Fedde (1-3, 6.00) in the opener of the final series between the teams in 2018.The Phillies have not won a series since sweeping the Marlins in early August. Philadelphia is 11-20 since then and Greg Maddux Jersey , at 74-68, as close as it has been to .500 since it was 43-37 on June 29. Philadelphia’s latest loss, a 6-4 defeat against the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field, pushed it 4 1/2 games behind the Atlanta Braves for the division’s top spot.Article continues below ...Despite a month without a series victory, the Phillies still have a chance to catch the Braves, who they play seven times in the final two weeks of the season. The Phillies are 43-26 at home but just 28-32 against the rest of the NL East this season. They have an 8-8 mark against the Nationals.“We need to turn the page quickly,” Phillies manager Gabe Kapler told reporters after Sunday’s loss in New York. “Looking forward to getting back to Philadelphia where we’ve played really good baseball all year long. We will come out (Monday) having turned the page. We’re prepared to do that.”The Nationals (71-72) enter the series with a two-game winning streak, beating the Chicago Cubs twice before their Sunday game was rained out. There are eight games separating the Nationals and the Braves. Fedde will make his eighth start of the season and his second since rejoining the Nationals after a shoulder injury sidelined him for two months. He gave up four runs (all in the second inning) and four hits and had seven strikeouts in five innings against the St. Louis Cardinals last Tuesday.“I think just that second inning got away from me a little bit,” Fedde told MLB.com after the game. “I started getting a little slider happy with some of the guys that came up, and I think I just let it take over.”Fedde http://www.bravesfanproshop.com/authentic-david-justice-jersey , 25, is 1-1 with a 6.55 ERA in two career starts against the Phillies.Rhys Hoskins will try to keep his home run streak going against Fedde and the Nationals. Hoskins homered for the third consecutive game in Sunday’s loss. The Phillies’ 25-year-old slugger has 30 homers this season, and he has homered in three straight games on three separate occasions in 2018.Arrieta was strong in his last outing, notching 11 strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings against the Miami Marlins. The veteran right-hander has allowed two homers in each of his last three starts, including in a three-inning performance against the Nationals on Aug. 29.Arrieta is 1-2 with a 5.25 ERA and a 1.567 WHIP in 12 career starts against Washington.
