ATLANTA (AP) — Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo’s thoughts drifted to a different level of baseball as he watched Arizona put together a shocking, seven-run rally in the ninth inning to beat the Atlanta Braves 11-10 on Thursday.
“I was like a proud dad, right? Just watching a bunch of Little Leaguers go out there and have some fun and get the job done,” he said. “That’s what I can honestly say I felt in the dugout.”
Third baseman Eugenio Suárez completed the D-backs’ comeback, lacing a two-out, two-run double to left field against struggling Braves closer Raisel Iglesias that made it 11-10. Arizona entered the inning trailing 10-4, and when the Braves went ahead by that score in the eighth, ESPN put Atlanta’s win probability at 99.9%.
The Diamondbacks swept the three-game