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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Todd Stottlemyre hit his first career home run, and chalked it up to some divine intervention.
With his father Mel in attendance, Stottlemyre hit his first homer in 216 major league at-bats to help lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 10-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night.
|  | | With his father in attendance, Todd Stottlemyre was solid on the mound -- and at the plate. |
"I didn't know how to act," Stottlemyre said. "I just ran as fast as I could and got off the field."
He was especially choked up about his father's presence at the game. The New York Yankees pitching coach is being treated for bone marrow cancer.
"It's the first time I've ever put him on the pass list," Stottlemyre (4-1) said. "It was like the baseball gods were ... I mean come on, I hit a home run. Almost ridiculous isn't it?"
Stottlemyre, in his 13th major league season, pitched five-plus innings, gave up four runs, walked four and struck out one for the Diamondbacks, who are 14-7 -- their best record in April in their short history.
"Fate seemed to be on his side tonight," said Greg Swindell, who pitched three shutout innings in relief. "No one could have ever thought that (home run) would happen."
Stottlemyre's homer to left-center field sent the Diamondbacks' bullpen scrambling to retrieve the ball.
"That's the fastest I've ever seen our bullpen move," Arizona manager Buck Showalter said. "That homer meant a lot to everyone."
Luis Gonzalez and Erubiel Durazo each hit two-run homers for the Diamondbacks, who have beaten the Phillies five straight times this season and 10 consecutive dating to last year.
Rob Ducey and Scott Rolen each hit two-run homers for the Phillies, who lost their fifth straight. The loss was the eighth in nine games for Philadelphia, which has scored only 11 runs during its current five-game skid.
Gonzalez and Durazo each had two hits and three RBI for Arizona, which has hit seven home runs in its last two against Philadelphia.
Andy Ashby (1-2) struggled in the first and lasted just 3 1/3 innings, giving up five hits and five earned runs. He walked four, hit a batter, threw two wild pitches and struck out two.
"I stunk, that's the bottom line," Ashby said. "It was an embarrassment. You can't expect to keep your team in the game when you can't throw a curve ball for a strike."
Ashby retired his first two batters, but needed 36 pitches to get out of the first inning as Arizona sent up eight batters and scored three runs. Ashby walked Gonzalez and surrendered a two-run homer to Durazo. Steve Finley and Travis Lee walked before Kelly Stinnett singled in a run.
Ducey's homer barely cleared the left-field fence in the second to get the Phillies within a run, 3-2.
Arizona added four runs in the fourth when Stinnett, who had been hit by a pitch, and Andy Fox, safe on an error by Rico Brogna, scored on a single by Tony Womack. Gonzalez drove in the third run of the inning and knocked Ashby out of the game.
"Anytime you can score some runs off of Andy Ashby, you are real fortunate," Showalter said.
Trever Miller came in and gave up a sacrifice fly to Durazo before retiring the final two batters.
The Diamondbacks got three more runs in the sixth when Stottlemyre and Gonzalez both homered.
Rolen homered in the sixth to make it 10-4, forcing Stottlemyre out of the game.
Game notes
Brogna's error in the fourth was his first this season and just the seventh for the Phillies in their first 20 games. ... In their last five games, the Diamondbacks have had 49 hits, 32 of them for extra bases.
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