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Four-panel full-color sports comic with cartoon ballplayers, not likenesses. Panel 1: cartoon D-backs player celebrating under a WALK-OFF DIAMONDBACKS WIN burst. Panel 2: mid-swing CRACK home-run blast with helmet flying against a desert sunset. Panel 3: teal jersey pile-on celebration under stadium lights. Panel 4: FINAL scoreboard D-backs 5 Opponent 3 with fireworks.
Four panels: walk-off D-backs celebration, CRACK pinch-hit blast to RF, pile-on legends huddle, FINAL D-backs 5 Opponent 3 board. Cartoon ballplayers only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: ESPN.

Sports

Pavin Smith’s pinch-hit 2-run HR walks off Yankees; D-backs 5–3

What happened

The ESPN / AP recap from Saturday night in Phoenix has Arizona Diamondbacks pinch-hitter Pavin Smith launching a two-run home run in the ninth off Michael Fulmer (0-1) into the right-field seats for a 5–3 walk-off win over the New York Yankees. That is the Sports filing: a Chase Field night, a pinch-hit crack, and a wild-card math update with seven games left.

Ildemaro Vargas walked to open the ninth after winning an ABS challenge on a full-count call; Jordan Lawlar struck out before Smith’s blast. Juan Morillo (1-1) worked 1.1 hitless innings in relief. Brandon Pfaadt lasted 4.1 innings and allowed one run. Earlier, Austin Wells and Heliot Ramos each hit solo home runs off Kevin Ginkel in the sixth to put New York up 3–2. Yankees starter Cam Schlitter went six innings and allowed three runs (one earned), leaving with a 1.94 ERA and his 24th start of one earned run or fewer. Cartoon ballplayers only — never likenesses of living athletes. Bright D-backs teal and desert sunset orange. White gutters. The ESPN recap URL is the receipt. Skip farm-system speculation and keep politics out of the dugout.

September baseball still moves wild-card math on nights like this. Arizona snapped a three-game skid, sits within four games of the Phillies for the final NL wild-card spot with seven games left, and filed the win on the 25th anniversary of the 2001 World Series over the Yankees. New York now has 11 walk-off losses this season, second-most in the majors. Readers get Smith’s pinch-hit two-run ninth, Fulmer (0-1), Vargas’s ABS walk, Lawlar’s K, Morillo’s 1.1 hitless, Pfaadt’s 4.1 / 1 R, the Wells–Ramos sixth, Schlitter’s six / 3 R (1 ER) / 1.94 ERA / 24 starts ≤1 ER, D-backs 5–3, the four-game Phillies gap, seven games left, the skid snap, the 2001 anniversary note, and the Yankees’ 11 walk-off losses — not a season retrospective, just one Saturday’s wire from Phoenix.

Why it matters

A Chase Field pinch-hit walk-off that rewrites the ninth and tightens NL wild-card math is the strip: CRACK into the RF seats, pile-on huddle, FINAL 5–3 board. Color on the teal jerseys and the desert fireworks. White gutters. Readers get Smith’s two-run blast off Fulmer, Vargas’s ABS challenge walk, Morillo’s hitless bridge, Pfaadt’s early work, the Wells–Ramos sixth, Schlitter’s line, Arizona within four of Philadelphia with seven to play, the snapped skid, the 2001 Yankees anniversary echo, New York’s 11 walk-off losses, and the source URL on the page.

Conclusion

Pavin Smith’s pinch-hit two-run home run in the ninth off Michael Fulmer (0-1) into the right-field seats walked off the Yankees 5–3 for the Diamondbacks after Ildemaro Vargas opened the inning with a walk won on an ABS full-count challenge, Jordan Lawlar struck out, Juan Morillo (1-1) threw 1.1 hitless, and Brandon Pfaadt worked 4.1 innings allowing one run, with Austin Wells and Heliot Ramos solo homers off Kevin Ginkel in the sixth making it 3–2 and Cam Schlitter going six innings with three runs (one earned) at a 1.94 ERA in his 24th start of one earned run or fewer, as Arizona snapped a three-game skid, moved within four games of the Phillies for the final NL wild card with seven games left on the 25th anniversary of the 2001 World Series over New York, which now owns 11 walk-off losses (second-most), per ESPN / AP. Cartoon ballplayers only. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401817010

Source: ESPN