00:00Major League Baseball yesterday, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers were on deck as the first game to be played.
00:06Out of the West Coast, 6 o'clock, you knew the shadows would come in, so it might be a little bit tougher to score some runs.
00:10Me as a Phillies fan, you know, I love, you know, Citizens Bank ballpark, it's red October, but it's been really three straight years of misery.
00:18The one year was fun where they went to the World Series, ended up losing to the Astros.
00:21Okay, they'll be back in the playoffs when they were, and it's gotten progressively worse each and every year.
00:25But the one thing that hasn't changed is the Phillies lineup.
00:28Hey, you got superstars in that lineup, eventually they'll hit.
00:30The thing that I look at this series at ends is the Dodgers were the better team overall.
00:34The talent was there, they had more opportunities.
00:36Outside that Phillies explosion in game number three, they really weren't all there at the plate.
00:40You take a look at Trey Turner, who makes a couple hundred million dollars on his contract.
00:44He had 235, which feels like unbelievable Mickey Mantle at that point.
00:47Kyle Schwarber, 188 in the series.
00:50Bryce Harper, 200.
00:51Brandon Marsh, 077.
00:53You take a look a little bit down there.
00:54Max Kepler, 167.
00:56Nick Castellanos, 133.
00:58Bryson Stott, 154.
01:01You can't win that way.
01:02If you would have told me, Joe, entering in this series through four games, what the starting pitching staff would have given you, I would have said to myself, four games.
01:11The Phillies wanted to sweep in three games.
01:13That's easy.
01:14Why?
01:14They just can't hit.
01:16And doing the same thing over and over every single year, expecting the same results.
01:20And understand this.
01:22The Phillies were fighting yesterday.
01:23They did lose two to one in 11 innings.
01:25But the joke for me was, this game could have went on.
01:28They could still be playing right now.
01:30And they could be pulling fans out of the seats at Dodger Stadium to throw sessions against the Phillies.
01:35And they never would have had a chance to get on base.
01:38It looked like those old Bugs Bunny cartoons where, you know, the funny ball comes up at the plate.
01:41Bugs throws it and six or seven straight batters just can't hit it four and five times, taking a cut at the same pitch.
01:48That was the Phillies at the plate.
01:50I wasn't upset when the game ended because I just looked at it and said, sooner or later, this was going to come to a head.
01:55You can't win by scoring one or two runs repeatedly in baseball games and expect a different outcome.
02:01Dodgers were better.
02:02They won two to one.
02:03They're moving on.
02:04And they should have been.
02:04It was just the problem was, by losing those first two games, the Phillies' room for error became non-existent.
02:13And they had not one but two of their pitchers create big errors in that game last night when it mattered the most.
02:21If you're a Doran, you cannot walk or run it.
02:23Sorry.
02:24Can't do it.
02:25And if you're a Kirkering, of course, you've got to know to be able to throw that ball out at first base, even though you bobbled it.
02:31And it's a shame that's how it ended because I would have loved to have watched 18 innings of that because they were going to – and both teams, it felt like were going to empty everything they had in that game.
02:43But I think the difference, certainly, Sasaki coming in out of the pen and throwing three perfect innings, trying to calm things down there, that was huge for them.
02:54Had they continued on – you know how I feel about that bullpen at the Dodgers, Donnie?
02:59It was going to be advantage Philadelphia if they could have got out of that inning.
03:03But unfortunately, it was just too little too late.
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