Third Time Just Not in the Phillies Cards
By: Mike Reisman
If you asked me how I was feeling this second, I would throw multiple feelings at you. Depressed, upset, angry, and frustrated just to name a few. Yet, regardless, I feel almost obligated to tell all of you how the Phillies fell to the San Francisco Giants.
The Phillies came into the game with their backs to the wall, knowing, it was win or (stay?) go home. They responded to the pressure very quickly in the 2nd, with a Chase Utley RBI double. Jayson Werth would add a run on a sacrifice, making the game 2-0. The Giants would bounce back in the third though, with a single and an error, each scoring a run, and tied the game up.
The only other run in this game would come off of a fateful hit, a Juan Uribe solo home run that would just barely clear the right field wall. However, the Phillies would have multiple other chances, including the 9th, when Ryan Howard stepped into the box with two runners and two outs. He fought, but struck out on a called full count strike at the knees. And I mean at the knees. Either way, that ended the game. 3-2, game over, 4-2, series over.
There are so many things I could talk about right now. The inability to hit, the fact the Phillies had just three home runs in the NLCS, the fact that they could not hit with runners in scoring position. The list goes on and on. But tonight, I am not going to do that. Tonight, I will congratulate the Giants, who clearly played a much better series than the Phillies. Sure I would have loved the Phillies to win. Sure I would have loved to be able to say we would play the Rangers in the World Series. But we got outplayed all series, and now we have to pay. Congratulations Giants. And as for the Phillies, there is always next year.