Glendale’s comeback started with a trickle and ended with a blast.
Down 8-4 entering the ninth, the club put together a five-run rally to stun Peoria 9-8 in Arizona Fall League action, and the biggest swing of the day belonged to Chase Harlan. With two outs and Glendale trailing by two, Harlan launched a walk-off three-run homer to end it, giving him a third of his team’s RBI in the game and pushing his AFL OPS to .959.
The late surge capped a wild night for a Glendale pitching staff that leaned on six relievers to finish the job. Luke Fox handled the first three innings, giving up a pair of runs while dealing with plenty of traffic on the bases. He picked off a runner in the first, but Peoria kept pushing, stealing a base in each of the next two innings, and both runs charged to Fox came in the third.
Cody Morse was one of the Dodgers used out of the bullpen and one of the two who kept Peoria off the board, working a scoreless inning despite issuing a walk. Sam Horn, though, wasn’t as sharp and was tagged for two runs in the eighth, helping Peoria stretch the lead to 8-4 before Glendale’s ninth-inning rescue act.
There were other Dodgers involved in the rally as well. Charles Davalan started at second base, hit leadoff, and scored a run while collecting two hits.
Anson Aroz didn’t record a hit in four at-bats, but he still drove in a run. In the end, though, the night belonged to Harlan, whose homer sent everyone home.
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