Daily News | Phillies-Padres Game 3: How a meeting in St. Louis and an electric home park set the stage for a wild win
The bounce-back began two weeks earlier, in a meeting in St. Louis, when they gathered to talk about what it would take. This was before the blown lead in San Diego, before the five-hour flight across the country, before the errors and the miscues and the double play balls that left the Phillies flirting with disaster right up until the final outs of a 4-2 victory that left them two wins away from baseball’s ultimate stage. This was before they had even played a postseason game.
You come out of game like this too quickly, and you end up with the Bends. Right up until the final out, you found yourself wondering how they could possibly win one this way. Except, maybe this way of winning is uniquely theirs. Jean Segura drops a double play relay and allows a run to score in the top of the fourth? Look who’s up with two on and two out in the bottom of the frame.
It is the rarest of qualities, and the fact that the Phillies possess it is as much a reason to believe as any of their constituent parts. It is not something that you can define with numbers. You can’t even know it is there until the situation demands it. But they have it, and they have shown it so many times throughout this season that you have to start counting on it.
You cannot discount the crowd, the venue, the beautiful weirdness that is this city: the late broadcaster’s son singing the national anthem, the pinch-hitter-turned-postseason legend throwing out the first pitch, the starting center on the local football team running out onto the field before the sixth inning and dropping to a knee and chugging a beer. How can they lose?
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