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 Suarez 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 series and won their fourth straight overall.
"You have 27 outs, you have to play 27 outs hard," Suarez said. "I mean, that ninth inning tells how we play this game today. We're never gonna give up."