D-backs and Phillies set MLB home record

When the first three batters D-backs went to Philadelphia on Monday night, it was a sign of the future.
Arizona and Philadelphia combined their efforts to hit 13 home runs at Citizens Bank Park, setting a new Major League record by both teams. The D-backs won, 13-8.

When the first three batters D-backs went to Philadelphia on Monday night, it was a sign of the future.

Arizona and Philadelphia combined their efforts to hit 13 home runs at Citizens Bank Park, setting a new Major League record by both teams. The D-backs won, 13-8.

Jarrod Dyson, Ketel Marte and David Peralta, the first three D-hitters of the evening, drew Arizona with explosions back to back to allow a club to beat eight long balls. Eduardo Escobar and Ildemaro Vargas each slugged two in the game, and Alex Avila knock one too.

"It was good to start," said Dyson. "Starting with a circuit set the tone and the guys came behind me and did the same thing. We have beaten good bats recently and we are just trying to keep going. We are just trying to have a good ground to hit. That's the goal, it's the game plan when we enter the surface. We know that this is a very good baseball club out there and we are just trying to get out and give our pitcher a small cushion. "

Scott Kingery hit two of the five by the Phillies, who also got one each of Jean Segura, Rhys Hoskins and Jay Bruce. It was Hoskins' shot in the ninth that tied the record and Bruce, two batters later, broke the record.

"I did not know that [it was a record] until I come back here, but for whatever reason, the balloon was flying completely, said Kingery. It seemed like every balloon flying in the air was a home run. I do not know if it has to do with the weather, the humidity, I do not know. It was just crazy there. "

"I think tonight was a good indication of how the ball is moving here in the middle of the summer," said Phillies director Gabe Kapler.

Jerad Eickhoff, the starter from Philadelphia, spearheaded Arizona production, awarding five homers in three sets and more. It was raised in the fourth quarter after launching a follow-up walk followed by the first game of the Escobar match, then another walk preceding the Avila blast.

"I could not adapt," Eickhoff said. "I could not adapt to everything, I would do one thing here, I would not do it, it did not work, I adjusted here, it did not work. It was just one of those nights, all the mistakes I made were able to give them a good run and they managed to do it all night long. is not to keep us in the game. "

The new record could have been 14, but an order from Philadelphia Nick Williams in the eighth inning that was originally deemed a home run was changed to a double after exam.

The former 12-man Major League record was held by the Tigers and White Sox – who had played twice before on May 28, 1995 at Tiger Stadium and July 2, 2002 at the Guaranteed Rate Field. The National League record was 11, completed four times. The final instance was the Cubs and Phillies on May 17, 1979, in 10 innings at Wrigley Field. The only nine-in-four match at the NL was held on June 11, 1967 between the Cubs and the Mets in Chicago.

"You can not really explain it," said Torey Lovullo, D-backs manager, about the new album. "It was just a group of very good hitters attacking it and not releasing the gas pedal."