Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona Diamondbacks

Joe Mather was the first to see it in the Diamondbacks dugout. The Arizona hitting coach leapt onto the bench and then over the railing. Next to him, Arizona manager Torey Lovullo finally located the ball and realized that Ryan Waldschmidt had just hit a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 4-3 win over the Dodgers. "I lost it just for a second because it gets a little dark out there, and there's a lot of light colors with the baseball," Lovullo said. "But I saw the person reaching for the ball in the stands, and I was like the third guy that saw it because Joe Mather was already climbing out of the dugout. It was a very, very, very surreal moment." Merrill Kelly heard it. Back in the clubhouse, Kelly, who had started the game and had a no-hitter through five before giving up a couple hits and having to leave with a left hamstring cramp in the sixth, was at his locker watching the game on television. One TV showed an overhead view of the diamond. That was the live feed. The other TV was the broadcast feed and that was slightly delayed. Deep inside the bowls of Chase Field, Kelly heard the muffled roar of the near capacity crowd. He looked at the overhead feed and saw Waldschmidt jogging, but he didn't know what happened. Then he turned to the delayed feed and watched the ball go into the stands. And just like that, a frustrating night for the right-hander turned into one of joyous celebration. "I got to watch different pieces of it," Kelly said. "So that was pretty cool." Waldschmidt felt it. When he hit the ball, the rookie Waldschmidt just put his head down and sprinted out of the box. It wasn't until he rounded first that he realized he was the latest hero for the Diamondbacks.