Somebody is coming back to Philly with a 3-2 lead. If the Phillies keep playing this brand of unfocused, toothless baseball, it won’t be them.
Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper waits as relief pitcher Craig Kimbrel resets after the Diamondbacks' Alek Thomas hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning of Game 4.As the night before, thousands of the 47,000 on hand wore Phillies red, white, and blue. As the night before, they suffered through hours of suddenly lousy baseball, after watching the Phillies play their best for the first eight games of the playoffs, of which they won seven.
They’d seen their Phillies blow a late lead, this time more spectacularly than the first. The back end of a promising bullpen game quickly deteriorated: Gregory Soto, Orion Kerkering, Kimbrel, and José Alvarado turned a 5-2 lead through six innings into a 6-5 deficit to the Diamondbacks after eight. That’s how it ended Friday night, and that’s why the series stands tied, 2-2.and Zac Gallen reprise their Game 1 duel, in which Wheeler emerged the winner.
It wasn’t just Kerkering on Thursday, and it wasn’t him alone on Friday, either. He wasn’t awful, just not good enough. His appearance set up Kimbrel. Which set up doom.
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