For only the second time in franchise history, the Arizona Diamondbacks erased a seven-run deficit.

Their unbelievable 8-7 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in 10 innings came to an end thanks to Max Kepler, but he was far from the only contributor in the win.

Arizona's only other seven-run comeback came on August 29, 2022, in a game that just so happened to be Corbin Carroll's big-league debut. Sadly, for D-backs fans, Carroll exited the game on Sunday, July 19, and is now being listed as day-to-day.

After a surprisingly rough start from Eduardo Rodriguez, the Diamondbacks' offense proved not to be phased by a 7-0 deficit through five innings. 

Nolan Arenado homered against his former team in the eighth inning, which continued the D-backs' rally. To that point, they had managed to score a trio of runs in the sixth inning and added two more in the seventh. After a double play helped Juan Morillo keep the Cardinals scoreless in the 10th, Kepler was able to end the game just seven pitches into the bottom half of the inning.

"Obviously, we needed it as a team," Arenado said, according to MLB.com. "Just a well-fought game for us, just to come back like that was incredible. Arguably, our best win of the year, but just to see us... the way we fought and didn't give in, we could have easily done that. We didn't, so that was great."

Arizona was able to get the leadoff man to reach in the seventh inning, but back-to-back outs put Geraldo Perdomo in a compromised position. After the team just scored three runs the inning prior, they knew they couldn't let this moment go to waste.

Ultimately, it was a 242-foot inside-the-park home run for Perdomo as the Diamondbacks made sure to take advantage of the Cardinals' error.

"The way I saw it, the way I viewed the play, I was thinking in my mind it was a simple base hit," Perdomo said. "Honestly, I was running slow, too. I hit the line drive and I just saw it was under his glove. I tried to get to third base. When I saw [third-base coach] J.R. House sending me home, I just kept going."

Perdomo continued, "All the credit to the coaches," Perdomo said. "We didn’t have enough energy until the sixth, until we p***** off Mac. After that, I think we got some energy and things started getting better. Him and McKay, they were a little bit upset because we didn’t have energy. We got that energy and we injected it into the game."

The Diamondbacks improved to 51-48 but remain 11.5 games back in the National League West. That said, they're now only 0.5 games out of an NL Wild Card spot.

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