Dodgers surge late to defeat Phillies in Game 1 of the NLDS

Philadelphia – It was not a passionate speech. But this turned out to be a preliminary point.

A few hours before Game of 1 series of the National League division On Saturday evening DODERS“The crime was collected for their typical meeting of attackers before the game, when Aaron Bates, one of the coaches with the hit, told and offered a reminder in the room.

In this series, Bates knew that there would be moments of hardships. And in this stadium, where 45,000 crazy fans of Philadelphia Phillis created one of the best advantages of the home field in all of baseball, the Doders was to be ready to react and answer.

“Intensibility and fans will be there at the beginning of the game,” he told them, as infielder Miguel Rohas recalled.

“If something happens early if Schwarber strokes 800 feet, and the roof breaks away from this place, do not worry about it,” he added, according to the third lower class Max Mansi“Because when they are dead in the seventh or eighth feeds, and we win, this is all that will matter.”

In the next nine presentations, this is how the script is played out.

Phillis inflicted an early blow, ambush Shohei Otani With the three -year -old second Inning, in which the Citizens Bank Park shook a small earthquake.

Then Doders answered 5-3 victory This gave them a very important leg in this series of the best of five.

“This message, which, when you hear it, it sounds stupid,” Mansi said about the preliminary reminder of Bates. “But this is a lot of truth. When you fall into such places, it is very hostile, it is very loud. ”

This, of course, was in the second Inning, when JT Realmuto was in the three with two races, which opened an account and shot down the champions defenders on the rug.

But, as they have shown so often over the past two on October, even when they fall, they never come out.

“Go through a loud crowd and the like,” Bates said, the modestly undertaken speech of his attackers. “Just make sure that you adhere to your plan, adhere to the course. And we coped well with this. ”

Dodgex dismissed the early adversity, and Otan did not allow further damage within six inining; Having finished his debut in the postson with nine outs and four monumental shots without glasses after the second.

Their composition, meanwhile, fought back from the deficit, pursuing Fillis Ace and candidate for the Saing Prize, Christopher Sanchez from the game Kike ErnandesTwo double in the sixth.

In the seventh, actual knockout blow came on the decisive game of swinging from Theskar ErnandesA field with two authors in Inning, and Phillis on the verge of escape, he blew up a course with three runs.

In the same way, the southern Philadelphia fell silent.

“When you can hear the fall of the pin at the stadium, this is the final feeling in baseball,” Mansi said. “I felt that people in the upper deck could hear how we encouraged in the dugout.”

In the beginning of the Saturday game, the frightening home stadium Phillies provided the opposite environment.

Sanchez with them cut off the attackers with evil sinkers and table shifts. On the other hand, Otani ran into troubles in the lower part of the second.

Inning began with a walk to Alec Bom, when Otani missed Fastball with a full score. This was followed by a single from Brandon Marsh, who received Fastball in the middle level in the account of 2 and 2 and shot a basic blow to the center.

How Okhtani tried to calm down, a choir of mockery of chants – Sho-hee! Sho-hee! – It started to rain around him.

Then the launcher was unleashed on one rocker Realmuto.

After the missing one missing with a rally of the first step in Realmuto, Otan left a heater of 100.2 miles per hour in the center of the zone. The location turned out to be irrelevant. Realmuto hunched over him, sent a linear disk screaming to the right center, and then went to third place after the ball passed by Theskar Ernandez in the break.

Two battles after two battles, which served as a sacrifice due to the inability of Ernandez, cut off the ball on the top three Realmuto earlier, put it 3-0.

At the moment (and with how Sanchez it seemed), it was like almost irresistible leadership.

However, in the dugout, Dodders took advantage of Bates's messages.

They were stunned, but did not obey. They were rattled, but not destroyed.

“He must pay tribute to Aaron Bates on this. He made sure that all attackers knew about it, ”Mansi said. “You just have to find a way to withstand this storm and understand what the ultimate goal is.”

The turn began with Okhtan, which, despite the fact that he knocked out four times when the dough followed the triple triple Realmuto, retired to the next 10 with which he encountered. His only problem arose in the fifth, when the two lower attackers in the Order of Phillis reached the base with one. But even then Otani fastened, forcing Tere Turner to go out, and Kyle Schwarber was swinging through the curve that ended Inning.

At night, Ogatani and Doders, “Fosters limited the big three Phillis” Turner, Schwarber and Brice Harper with only one blow of 11 on bat.

“I use verbal division of a lot, but this embodies compartments”, manager Dave Roberts He said about Otan. “In order to go there and give us six taxes, keep us in a ball game, I just don’t know anyone who can cope with these emotions. How you do not accept [the hitting struggles] On the embankment? “

In the end, the insult to the dooders also found life.

With two outs in the sixth, and Sanchez, refusing only two blows all night, Freddie Freeman called a rally with five mines. Tommy Edman took the breast in the other direction to put two on board.

This caused Kike Ernandez, who continued his habit October heroism Jumping on a slider from Sanchez, who caught too much plate. Ernandes held out the line down the left line. Freeman and Edman were scored, the latter ran through the stop sign before she glides safely on the plate.

In the same way, Sanchez was knocked out of the game. What was a hoarse crowd earlier, suddenly grew.

Then, in the seventh, Teoscar Hernández completed the return.

After Andy's pages led with one and Will Smith (Who entered the game in the fifth Inning after he missed the round card with a broken hand) was struck by the presentation of David Robertson, Phillis called the highest leftist Matt Strass and watched him forced Otan to hit at the fourth consecutive time (something that he did in his career only in his career).

However, having received Strahm on the mound, Dodgers had favorable right left matches. Flour Betts I could not take advantage of the third place for the second. Ernandes, on the other hand, did not miss, sending the raised fastball on the autumn night.

“I watched the video [of him]He loves to rise in the area of ​​the blow. I think that then he is stronger, ”said Ernandes.[I was] I'm not trying to switch or something like that. Try to take one race to tie the game. But he left it through the strike zone. ”

And when the ball landed in the right field, once a rolling stadium fell into a stunned silence.

Returning to the dugout, Mansi said: “Many people shouted at Bates, for example:“ Hey, you were right! “” “

Bates, once again, deviated when he was asked about the moment.

“We were really excited that theo got it in the end,” he said. “It was a great swing using the entire field. This is what theo does. He adhered to his plan during the day. And then they make a mistake, and he gets it. ”

Nevertheless, the attitude that he preached before the game helped the dodges jump back. And from there the new plan of the Communist Party managed to collect the last nine outs.

The predicted starter in the game 4 Tyler Glaznov with the relief of Okhtani in the seventh and broke the countless Inning, which ended with a double game with a double game. He left behind, loaded with jam, in the eighth, but he was helped to be helped when Alex Vesia received the ball to finish Inning.

The ninth belonged to the new ascending Closer Rocky Sasakiwho continued his revival at the end of the season as a liberator, working with one double for Max Kepler to collect his first career.

And when the finale was recorded, the fans of Comber Phillies were fed on a quiet night.

“We knew that we were going to win in the seventh Inning. He said this, ”said Rohas, referring to Bates's speech again. “He said that we will have the opportunity to return to the game, and this happened. The guys stuck together … That's why we are a team. “