NLCS Game 4 - Wednesday Night, October 20th in San Francisco
Composing these game summary posts and creating a Chachi card to commemorate the game is much easier and certainly much funner when the Phillies win. I'd love to write about the bat-around in the fifth inning that saw the team score four times. That was fun to watch. I'd much rather center a game summary post around the back-to-back doubles from Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth in the eighth that tied the game at five-all. And more than anything, I'd love to have this post celebrating an extra inning win featuring a key go-ahead Phillies' run followed by a shut-down inning from Brad Lidge or starting pitcher/left fielder/relief pitcher Roy Oswalt.
But the images fresh in my mind are Carlos Ruiz getting thrown out at the plate in the fifth, Joe Blanton uncorking two wild pitches in the first, Blanton and Chad Durbin allowing lead-off walks to start the fifth and sixth innings, Chase Utley constantly hanging his head and looking as if someone had just shot his horse, and finally, Juan Uribe prancing around as his sacrifice fly to left scored Aubrey Huff with the winning run. (And it hurts too that Pat Burrell is having so much fun at the expense of his former team.)
I'm not going to lie here - I'm grumpy. I have a cold, I'm tired, and the Phillies are on the brink of calling it a season. With those symptoms, a Doctor is definitely needed.
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1-3 isn't over!
And you should know!
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