Geraldo Perdomo hit a sacrifice fly to score Corbin Carroll with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night at Phoenix.
Alek Thomas delivered a tying two-run single in the eighth for the Diamondbacks, who won for the ninth time in 13 games and moved over .500 for the first time since April 3.
George Springer had two hits, but he couldn’t prevent Toronto from dropping to 4-3 on its nine-game western road swing.
Carroll drew a leadoff walk against Chad Green (2-2) in the ninth and Ketel Marte later drew a one-out walk. Carroll and Marte worked a double steal, and the Blue Jays opted to intentionally walk Christian Walker after Green fell behind 2-0 in the count.
Perdomo then hit a fly ball down the left field line that was barely fair, and Carroll easily beat the throw of Daulton Varsho.
Justin Martinez (4-1) worked a perfect top of the ninth for the Diamondbacks.
Arizona tied the score at 4 with two outs in the eighth on Thomas’ two-run single to left center off Trevor Richards. Perdomo and Eugenio Suarez, who both walked and moved up on a wild pitch, scored easily on the hit.
Toronto trailed 2-0 until scoring in four consecutive innings on three sacrifice flies and one groundout.
Alejandro Kirk singled with one out in the fifth and moved to third on Ernie Clement’s double to right. Kevin Kiermaier grounded out to second to score Kirk.
Springer led off the Blue Jays’ sixth with a triple into the gap in right center. Spencer Horwitz followed with a sacrifice fly to left.
In the seventh, Varsho led off with a triple that hit the right field foul line and rolled into the corner. After Kirk grounded to short, Clement waged a nine-pitch battle with Arizona’s Ryne Nelson before hitting a sacrifice fly to score Varsho and give Toronto a 3-2 lead.
The Blue Jays got another run in the eighth as Leo Jimenez, Springer and Horwitz led off the inning with singles against Bryce Jarvis. Guerrero followed with a sacrifice fly to right to score Jimenez.
Nelson allowed three runs and five over seven innings. He struck out five and walked none.
Arizona took a 1-0 lead in the third when Kevin Newman hit a one-out double and scored on Carroll’s single.
The Diamondbacks added on in the fourth as Randal Grichuk led off with a triple and later scored on Newman’s sacrifice fly.
Toronto starter Yariel Rodriguez allowed two runs and four hits over four innings. He struck out seven and walked three.
–Field Level Media
