Philadelphia – It was a typical October baseball.
Two starting jugs dominate two helpless compositions.
A low indicator competition in which every smallest Baserunner felt like a monumental missed opportunity.
The matter is in the struggle with the nails, determined by one team, which cashed a rare chance of clogging, and the other cannot do the same.
In the lower part of the sixth inning in Game of 2 series of the National League division On Monday, Phillis Philadelphia had two on board with one of them, but turned out to be empty.
In the next half of Inning DODERS Faced with the same situation, but left with four runs.
It was the difference in dodge 4-3 victory In Citizens Bank Park, giving them command leadership with a score of 2: 0 in a series of the best of five, which will go to the Dodger stadium for playing 3 on Wednesday.
The jug of Dodgex Blake Snell delivers during the second Inining on Monday against Phillis.
(Robert Gauthier / Los -Angeles Times)
For most of the evening of Monday, a crowd of 45,653 people in southern Philadelphia was anxious in anticipation, waiting for the dam to tear in the old -fashioned duel of the jugs.
On the one side, Blake Snell He hoped his fastball in the zone and in both parts of the plate, giving Phillis not to hit, setting them up to take with him to his dominant arsenal of secondary weapons. Four Inningi after he retired 12 out of 14 batteries with two walks released. He smelled at each of the first 11 non-factballs that he abandoned. And while there were no two outs in the fifth, he abandoned his first blow.
Opposite him, Hesus Luzardo was equally effective. After first in the corners, first in the shawl at the corners, the left -handed left and forced the doders to look stupid with a whole change that fell under the zones. Where he needed 24 steps in the first, he completed the next five on 48 shots. During this time, he retired 17 in a row and allowed only two balls to even leave the personal plot.
Finally, in the lower part of the sixth, the narrative began to change.
Phillis generated the first big opportunity for the game after Tere Turner and Kyle Schwarber entered the bat against Snell with one of them. This was the first time all night when their composition was the first. And this happened when the double MVP Brice Harper walked to the plate.
The plan of Snella attack on Harper was simple. His first step was a slider in the mud. It was next one in the Harper zone, polluted. Two more sliders followed, and Harper Fanning on the first and pollutes the following. Then, after one of the changes in the parts was buried in front of the plate, Snell returned to the slider again. He rushed below Harper's swing for deletion. Civil bank Park groaned.
Inning finished the dough later, when Alek Bom pursued a shift of 2 and 0 and hit the ground to the third base. Miguel Rohas put him behind a bag, spoke in the first race with a quick battle and decided to go to a short, although risky, instead, running to the third base and defeating Turner to the bag with the help of a head slide.
This ended Inning. This time, disappointed battles rain from the stands.
In a few minutes, the Doders will be ahead. Unlike Phillis, they have not lost their only opportunity for jogging.
Theskar Ernandes prompted the seventh seventh. Freddie Freeman followed a linear trip to the weak manual of Nick Castellnos (which was drawn into Phillis after Harrison Bader’s injury in game 1) on the right, standing on his horse to leak into a double bustle.
This knocked out Luzardo from the game. And in the step that will soon become the second, the Phillies manager Rob Thompson chose the Right Liberator Orion Kerkering, and not dominate Jhoan Duran closer.
Kerkering received one quick, knocking out Tommy Edman.
But then Kike Ernandez struck in a haircut to Turner at a short stop. After a little hesitation, Theoscar Ernandes broke very much behind the house. When Turner put the ball and shot on a plate, Ernandez screamed with a slide in the first place. The tag of the JT Realmuto catcher was too late.
Theskar Ernandes celebrates after entering third place in double Freddy Freeman in the seventh Inning against Phillis in the 2nd NLDS game on Monday. Ernandez later scored the first jogging run.
(Robert Gauthier / Los -Angeles Times)
Dodgex opened the score – and continued only to add.
With two authors in Inning, Will Smith (which, as in game 1, entered as a replacement in the middle of the game, as he continues to work from his broken hand) hit the double -pushed single on the left. Shohey Otan, who was without a blow in the series and 0 at 3 earlier at night, attached another with the help of grounding, which went through a personal plot.
By the time the dust was settled, the dooders rose to the lead with a score of 4: 0.
They need all this.
Emmett Shihan followed six Inning, with one blow, nine blow, with two relief films, removing the side in the seventh, before limiting the damage in the eighth, when he threw one run after the maximum Triple and Turner Rbi single, but went to the side of Schwarber and Flyball from Harper.
The real problem arose in the ninth, when the Doders turned to Blake Train – and not recently, an Ascendant of the KPZ Ice Rocky Sasaki – to close the game.
Kuvshin Doders Rocky Sasaki performs in the ninth Inning against Phillis on Monday in the 2nd NLDS game.
(Robert Gauthier / Los -Angeles Times)
Train could not, abandoning the single and his back to the back to Jammuto and Nick Castellanos to bring two runes home and put a run in the second place.
Alex Vesya entered the next time and received two authors (one of them, which is an important game from the third bottom of Max Mansi to set a blow and throw Castellanos to third place as a leading runner). Then Sasaki was finally called to meet with a terner with runners in the corners.
He prompted the Earth to the Second Nizo Tommy Edman. Edman transported his throw first, but Freeman chose it with extensive effort. And again, Phillis could not fully earn a chance to assess – leaving Doders on one victory from promotion in the NL championships.
