HOUSTON -- J.T. Realmuto lived this moment thousands of times in his backyard as a kid.

Bases loaded, two outs, 3-2 count, Wiffle ball bat in his hands.

Boom.

But what happened Friday night in Game 1 of the World Series was real. It was, wasn¡¯t it? Realmuto hit a game-tying two-run double in the fifth inning and a game-winning home run in the 10th to beat the Astros at Minute Maid Park, 6-5. It was only the sixth time in World Series history that a team overcame a five-run deficit to win. It was the first time it happened since the Angels beat Dusty Baker¡¯s Giants in Game 6 of the 2002 World Series.

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¡°I guess tonight was my turn,¡± Realmuto said. ¡°It¡¯s so cool to see the way this team is playing. It¡¯s been a different hero every single night. It's been that way all postseason long. Every hitter in our lineup has had their moment where they have come through huge for the team.¡±

Realmuto is the first catcher to hit an extra-inning home run in the World Series since Carlton Fisk¡¯s walk-off in Game 6 in 1975.

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You remember that one.

It¡¯s only one of the most famous home runs in baseball history.

¡°Just ecstatic to put a good swing on that pitch, be able to give our team the lead,¡± Realmuto said. ¡°We did such a good job fighting back there.¡±

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Realmuto has been grinding for months to get to that moment. He has caught 1,248 2/3 innings this year, including the postseason, a staggering 232 innings more than any other catcher in baseball.

Essentially, he has caught 25 more games than anybody else.

¡°I¡¯m running on so much adrenaline that I feel pretty great every night,¡± Realmuto said. ¡°I¡¯m honestly not sure how my body is going to respond until the season is over.¡±

¡°You can¡¯t say enough about what the guy brings to the team,¡± Kyle Schwarber said. ¡°We want to keep winning, but if I could say a guy that should get some MVP votes, he¡¯d be one guy on my list.¡±

Kyle Tucker hit a couple of home runs to stake Houston to a 5-0 lead in the third. But the Phillies came back, which is becoming their postseason calling card. Think back to Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series in St. Louis, when they trailed, 2-0, in the ninth and won, 6-3. Think back to Game 4 of the NL Championship Series against San Diego, when they trailed, 4-0, before they even hit in the first and won, 10-6. Think back to Game 5 of the NLCS, when they trailed, 3-2, in the eighth and won, 4-3.

They engineered this comeback against expected Hall of Famer Justin Verlander, who retired the first 10 batters he faced.

¡°We¡¯re not looking at numbers at that point,¡± Alec Bohm said. ¡°We¡¯re not playing the guy out there. We¡¯re playing the game. If we were sitting there, ¡®Oh, Verlander is on the mound, we don¡¯t have a chance,¡¯ why are we even here?¡±

The Phillies had a runner on first and one out in the fourth when Realmuto hit a line drive to Verlander. Hoskins was on the move. If Verlander catches the ball, he makes an easy throw to first for a double play and the inning is over.

But Verlander dropped it. Hoskins reached second.

¡°No doubt,¡± Hoskins said. ¡°I was out. I was out.¡±

Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and Bohm each got hits as the Phillies cut the Astros¡¯ lead to 5-3. Brandon Marsh doubled and Schwarber walked to start the fifth. Realmuto crushed an 0-1 curveball off the left-center-field wall for a double. Both runners scored to tie the game.

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¡°That was probably the most emotion I've shown on a baseball field in a long time,¡± Realmuto said. ¡°It's honestly not something that I plan or that I even expected to do. But there's just so much emotion in these games. We're having so much fun together that we can feel the comeback building when we score a run, score two runs. And in the dugout, we're talking, like, ¡®Guys, we got this. Just keep putting good at-bats, keep putting good at-bats.¡¯

¡°Once I hit that double and scored the tying run, there was just so much emotion it was just hard for me to keep it in.¡±

Then Realmuto ripped a 3-2 fastball from Luis Garcia in the 10th. The ball sailed toward the right-field stands.

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Did it have enough?

¡°I thought I got enough of it, but I kind of had flashbacks of the play that Tucker made on [Aaron] Judge's ball that last series,¡± Realmuto said. ¡°Once I saw him running back to the wall, I was thinking in my head, ¡®Oh, please just don't catch it, just don't catch it.¡¯ I knew it was going to be close.¡±

Gone, just like those backyard World Series moments as a kid.

¡°He hit a good pitch, a fastball away in the short porch,¡± Baker said.