Daily News | Phillies again beat Miami ace Sandy Alcantara as Nick Maton’s home run powers 2-1 win
MIAMI — Raise your hand if you had Bailey Falter and Nick Maton lifting the Phillies to a victory over the Cy Young Award favorite in Game 141 of a playoff-relevant season.But that’s how it went Tuesday night. Instead of Zack Wheeler on the mound and Nick Castellanos in right field, Falter cruised for six innings, Maton smashed a two-run homer in the seventh, and the Phillies edged Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara — again — 2-1 to open a series before a friends-and-family gathering in Miami.
The Phillies trailed, 1-0, in the seventh inning, having gotten little going against Alcantara save for leaving the bases loaded in the fourth, when Maton stepped to the plate with one out. The super-sub, filling in again for injured Castellanos, hit an 0-2 sinker off the scoreboard above the right-field bullpen.
Consider it a confidence builder. When the playoffs roll around — and yes, it’s OK to start using the “P” word — the Phillies will face ace starters on the regular. It’s good to be able to draw on the experiences when they beat this season’s ace of aces in the National League. This time, they had Alcantara on the proverbial ropes in the fourth inning but Maton hit a two-out tapper back to the mound. Otherwise, he dominated until the seventh inning. And even then, Jean Segura’s one-out single to right field hardly seemed menacing. But Alcantara hung a sinker to Maton, who turned it back around.
The Phillies are 6-0 in Falter’s last six starts. The misnamed lefty gave up a solo homer to Bryan De La Cruz in the fifth inning and little else other than a bunch of fly balls and grounders to third baseman Alec Bohm .
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