Edmundo Sosa, Jean Segura, Bailey Falter power Phillies past Marlins 4-3

AP — Edmundo Sosa homered for the second straight recreation and completed with three hits and three RBIs, and Bailey Falter earned his fourth straight win as a starter, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday evening.

Jean Segura additionally homered for the Phillies, who moved 4 video games forward of Milwaukee and a half-game forward of San Diego within the race for the ultimate two NL wild-card spots. 

The Padres face Arizona later Wednesday. 

The Phillies maintain a tiebreaker over the Brewers primarily based on a 4-3 season sequence file, an element on this first yr with no regular-season tiebreaker recreation to find out playoff spots.

The Phillies have not made the playoffs since 2011, the longest drought within the National League and the second-longest within the MLB behind Seattle’s 21 seasons.

Jacob Stallings had two hits, together with a solo homer within the ninth off reliever Connor Brogdon that pulled Miami inside a run. 

Brogdon allowed the tying run on base earlier than closing out his second save of the season.

Charles Leblanc and Garrett Cooper every had two hits for Miami, which has misplaced 9 in a row for the primary time since May 2013.

The 26-yeaer-old Sosa, acquired in a July 30 commerce with St. Louis for minor league reliever JoJo Romero to bolster Philadelphia’s infield depth- was 3 for 3. 

He knocked in two runs on a homer to left area within the third inning off Marlins starter Trevor Rogers. 

He added one other RBI within the seventh on a ball that ricocheted off reliever Huascar Brazoban’s glove and into brief proper area for a double, scoring Matt Vierling with an insurance coverage run.

The 25-year-old Falter, who spent a lot of the yr bouncing between Philadelphia and Triple-A affiliate Lehigh Valley, has been a stunning addition to a beginning rotation that has suffered since Zack Wheeler went on the injured listing on account of proper forearm tendinitis.

Falter (4-3) allowed two earned runs in 5 1/3 innings whereas mixing a four-seam fastball and a heavy sinker and forcing weak contact from the Marlins. All seven of Miami’s hits off Falter had been singles.

In his final 4 begins courting to Aug. 20, Falter has thrown 23 2/3 innings, allowed 19 hits, seven earned runs (2.66 ERA), walked two and struck out 18. 

Philadelphia is 4-0 in these begins and 5-7 in each different recreation in that stretch.

Segura added his ninth homer of the season with a solo shot within the fourth inning that curled simply contained in the foul pole in left area. 

Vierling went 2 for 3.

TRAINERS ROOM

Phillies: The development of Sir Anthony Dominguez and Zach Eflin from their accidents continued with the Phils sounding like a rehab project could possibly be on faucet subsequent week. 

Both right-handers threw simulated video games on Tuesday and felt good afterward, interim supervisor Rob Thomson stated. Eflin, who has been a starter, has been on the injured listing since June 28 with a knee bruise in his surgically repaired proper knee. 

Dominguez went on the injured listing with proper triceps tendinitis Aug. 21, leaving a gap at the back of the Philadelphia bullpen.

ON DECK

The remaining recreation of the three-game sequence takes place on Thursday with Miami sending Cy Young contender Sandy Alcantara (12-7, 2.38) to the mound in opposition to Phillies RHP Kyle Gibson (9-6, 4.48).