PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks clobbered the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday 9-2, winning the series and moving to within one game of the third National League Wild Card spot with a week of games remaining.

Sort of.

The Cincinnati Reds hopped into the third Wild Card spot by sweeping a four-game series against the Chicago Cubs this weekend. The New York Mets, meanwhile, lost two straight games to the lowly Washington Nationals. The Reds and Mets have the same record at 80-76, but the Reds hold the tiebreaker.

Cincinnati is now the team to catch in the race, as the Reds own the tiebreaker over the D-backs (79-77), as well.

So, the Diamondbacks are one game back in the standings, but they need to make up two games on the Reds over the final six contests. Losing four of six games in the season series with Cincinnati looms large.

In a two-way tie between the D-backs and Mets, Arizona would advance.

Many players in Arizona’s clubhouse are very aware of the standings each day, and others claim to not pay as much attention to them. It’s considered part of the deal this time of year, so long as it does not hamper the effort on the field.

“We’re not blind,” Corbin Carroll said. “We know who’s in there with us. We still don’t control our own fate, so you gotta hope for these other guys to lose. So definitely watching, but I don’t think it’s in a bad way that’s taken away from the focus in here.”

“I saw it up on the board that (New York) had lost, and I’m sure everybody else was zoned in on that,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “That’s what happens. You can pull a little bit closer, you go out there and give a really focused effort. But I don’t ever want us to rely on those things to find an energy. … I want us to take care of what we can every single day, just the way we did today.”

Maybe seeing the Mets lose provided a jolt early in a day game following a night game at Chase Field. Perhaps it didn’t. The Diamondbacks, though, plowed over the Phillies from the very beginning of Sunday’s game, using a combination of speed and power.

Diamondbacks jump on Phillies

A five-run second inning for the Diamondbacks broke Sunday’s game open early, and it came against one of the hottest pitchers in the league, Ranger Suarez.

The Diamondbacks took a 1-0 lead in the first after Ketel Marte led off with a double, and the bottom of the order set the table in the second.

Tim Tawa reached on an infield single, Jordan Lawlar walked and Jorge Barrosa bunted for a single to load the bases with nobody out.

Marte smoked a single up the middle to plate two, and Carroll crushed a home run 428 feet for a 6-0 lead. Carroll has 31 home runs this season.

Suarez entered this game with a 1.20 ERA over his last five starts, and he finished the game with four innings and six earned runs. The last time he failed to record an out in the fifth inning was back on May 4, also against the Diamondbacks.

E-Rod bounces back

Eduardo Rodriguez allowed one earned run over a three-start stretch entering his last outing against the San Francisco Giants. He allowed five runs that day, but Sunday was a bounce-back performance.

With ample run support, Rodriguez cruised through six scoreless innings with five strikeouts. The Diamondbacks brought him back out for the seventh, but he exited to a standing ovation after a double and a walk.

Philip Abner entered his second major league game and kept the Phillies scoreless and Rodriguez’s book clean.

Rodriguez’s ERA dropped back down to 4.91, and the D-backs have won four of his last five starts.

“We’re just playing to have fun and whatever happens, happens,” Rodriguez said. “We just try to win every game that we can right now. That’s the only goal we can do. That’s the only thing we can control.”

Jorge Barrosa goes yard

The Diamondbacks’ offense went pretty quiet after the second inning until Barrosa walked up to the plate in the sixth.

The 5-foot-6 outfielder clubbed his first major league home run over the left-field wall. After 79 career plate appearances, he finally got ahold of one.

“Speechless,” Barrosa said postgame. “A lot of emotions in my head. …  I can’t tell. It was special. That’s what it feels like.”

He finished the game with three hits.

Tim Tawa homered to give the Diamondbacks an 8-0 lead in the seventh, and Carroll scored the ninth run on a ground ball after doubling in the eighth.

Arizona finished with 15 hits as a team.

The Marte-Geraldo Perdomo-Carroll-Gabriel Moreno top four went 9-for-19 with seven RBIs.

“I  thought it was a great game,” Carroll said. “I thought we did a good job offensively of jumping on, Ranger is a great pitcher, and we gave E-Rod some room to go right at guys and pitch deep into the game. Thought it was all-around just a great game.”

30-30 season for Corbin Carroll

Carroll swiped his 30th base of the season during the sixth inning, becoming the first player in Diamondbacks history to reach the 30-30 benchmark.

Carroll has stolen at least 30 bases in three straight seasons, becoming the first player in team history to accomplish that feat.

Up next for Diamondbacks

The Diamondbacks get Monday off before starting a three-game series at home against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.

The probable pitchers for that series (in order):

Diamondbacks: Brandon Pfaadt (5.02 ERA), Ryne Nelson (3.34), Zac Gallen (4.70)

Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani (3.29), Blake Snell (2.44), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2.58)

The Reds will host the Pittsburgh Pirates with a killer pitching matchup of Paul Skenes against Hunter Greene on Thursday.

The Mets visit the Cubs this week.