Philadelphia – Bryce Harper says that the only thing that flat phillies can do in Los Angeles is “Flip The Script”.
Flip it? Philadelphia needs to tear it away and start to type from scratch, because, in terms of Hollywood, Harper, Trea Turner, Kyle Schwarber and most of the phillies at high prices were an absolute flop.
Add JT Realmuto and Nick Castellanos, and these five players are 5 for 35 to two games from the NL Division series with 13 stick withdrawals and no circuits.
The Phillies – with a payroll of 291.7 million dollars – fell into the same October model of freezing bats of their most expensive players who also condemned their three previous qualifying series.
The Dodgers put back the late Rally of Philadelphia on Monday evening for a 4-3 victory in match 2, pushing the phillies to a loss of elimination.
“I think these guys are trying to do a little too much right now, instead of being themselves and looking for basic tubes,” said director Rob Thomson. “Power will come.”
The Dodgers Left-Hander Blake Snell and the Emmet Sheehan lifter held Philadelphia three strokes in eight sleeves. Without the help of their trio of stars at the top of the order of the strikers, the Phillies showed life in the ninth and scored two points on three strokes.
Turner, the NL shot champion, was withdrawn on a field to end the match.
For those who keep the scoring at home, Turner, Schwarber and Harper have been combined 1 per 10 in match 2 with five stick withdrawals. The trio experienced a combined effort 1 for 11 with six stick withdrawals and no points produced during the 5-3 defeat in match 1.
“I wouldn’t say we press it,” said Harper. “We lack land above the plate. They make good throws when they need it. It is sometimes how baseball works.”
The phillies were built on the long ball, so it was a bit of a shoemaker in the ninth when Bryson Stott was invited to sacrifice without withdrawal and Castellanos in the second base. Stott has dropped, only so that the dodgers can go out in the third – and the next two withdrawals – without another race point.
“I wanted to play for the tie,” said Thomson. “I liked where our lift enclosure was compared to theirs.”
Stott defended the unpopular decision and said that he had tried to America as possible, but the Dodgers infielders have executed their wheeled wheat game “as perfect as possible”.
“We are in the playoffs and you try to win matches and get the race on third with less than two withdrawals is great,” said Stott. “You go down and want to play for that. It just didn’t work.”
Nothing really has for phillies.
With Ace Zack Wheeler sidelined as he recovers surgery to remove a blood clot in his pitch shoulder, Cristopher Sanchez and Jesus Luzardo did their part to limit the dodgers in the first two games.
The phillies will turn to an Ace Aaron Nola more than 12 games, Ranger Suarez, to try to save their season in match 3. It seems certainly dark: the teams taking an advance of 2-0 in a series of first five after-season series won 80 of the 90 times, including 54 sweeping.
“First to three,” said Harper. “They are not there yet. We just have to play the best baseball that we can and understand that we are a good team here. Everything can happen in the coming days.”
Nola, his season derailed by everything, from injuries to the coasts and coasts to an old -fashioned inconsistency, comes from his worst year since he burst with the Phillies in 2015.
The 32 -year -old Nola – signed for a seven -year contract of $ 172 million before the 2024 season – was written seventh by Philadelphia in 2014 and had been one of the most sustainable launchers since its debut in the League. Even if this season collapsed, with a 5-10 and 5.01 ERA file, Thomson’s confidence has never hesitated.
Nola has a 5-4 file in 10 career playoffs with a 4.02 MPM.
“You can’t get three victories in match 3, right?” Said Nola. “I felt quite well. My body is very healthy.”
If only there was an instant remedy for what hurts me at Phillie bats.
Maybe it’s going to Los Angeles.
Once invincible at home in the playoffs since this four-year race began in 2022, the Phillies lost for the fifth time in their last six qualifying games at the Citizens Bank Park and have only 2-9 in their last 11 in total.
“It was difficult,” said Harper. “We just have to turn the script and understand that we are a very good baseball team.”
A very good team. Just not great.
The Phillies lost against Houston in the World Series 2022, against the Arizona Diamondbacks a year later in the series of championships in the National League and were eliminated by the dishes last year in four games in the NLDs.
Be swept through, and it could be the end of the line for potential free agents Schwarber, Realmuto and Suarez.
Maybe even Philly Rob.
But these are questions for the end of the series – if it ends the season.
“This is a resilient group,” said Thomson. “Our backs are against the wall. We just have to get out of the fights.”
