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Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson called out his stars, Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, after a crushing Game 2 loss.
Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell and reliever Emmet Sheehan held Philadelphia to three hits over eight innings. Without any help from their All-Star trio at the top of the batting order, the Phillies showed life in the ninth and scored two runs on three hits.
Coming back from an 0-2 deficit on the road in the NLDS has come historical context — the Phillies aren't dead
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Kyle Schwarber? Cristopher Sanchez? Nope. Rob Thomson is the Phillies’ MVP this year. Extend him.
The Los Angeles Dodgers just scored 18 runs in the two games it took to dispatch a Reds team whose pitching led them to the postseason and was just slightly worse than the Phillies’. Which is to say the Division Series that begins Saturday in Philadelphia could very well be,
Veteran reliever Lou Trivino of West Rockhill, who has a sub 1.00 career postseason ERA, didn't make the cut for Phillies NLDS roster.