The home run byHarper gave thePhillies an 8-3) lead. There is a time and a place.
Brandon Marsh hit a three-run home run and J.T. Realmuto hit an inside-the-park home run to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to an 8-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves and a spot in the NLCS.
The first catcher to hit an inside-the-parker in the playoffs, and the first to hit a home run in the playoffs, were both involved in the Philadelphia victory.
The Padres or Dodgers will face off in the NLCS. Going into Game 4 of the NLDS, the Padres had a 2-1 lead over the Dodgers.
Since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998 to 2000 there has been no repeat champ.
Philadelphia finished third in the NL East, 14 games behind the Braves, but is hitting on all cylinders under Rob Thomson. He took over a team that was 22-28 in June.
The party kept going in October with the use of Marsh Madness.
The Citizens Bank Park was turned into a cozy home bandbox for the second game in a row, and with another fired up, towel-waving crowd along for every long ball.
It was Marsh who hit a three-run homers in the second and fourth games of the series.
Braves starter Charlie Morton was hit on his pitching elbow by a single that traveled 71.9 mph. The No. 9 hitter Marsh hit a three-run home run after Morton gave up a single to Jean Segura and hung a 2-2 curve.
The stringy hair and ZZ Top-esque beard of the 24-year-old Marsh is well-known as he is one of the top young players on the Philadelphia Phils. The Los Angeles Angels acquired Marsh just before the trade deadline. The Angels got a Game 4 starter in the form of Noah Syndergaard, who is known for his long hair.
It will be easy for thePhillies to party.
One of the six Philadelphia pitchers was Brad Hand.
At the end of the season, Syndergaard wasn't asked to do much other than keep the Phils in the game, and perhaps go unscathed once around the order. In a brief return to his best days with the New York Mets, Syndergaard gave up three hits and struck out three in three pitches.
In the third, Arcia hit a shot that made it 3-1.
He went into the history of the playoffs.
He hit a lead off home run against the pitcher. The carom went along the warning track toward right-center after hitting the wall beyond Michael Harris' reach. Ronald Acua didn't start running until Realmuto was past first base. The catcher made a headfirst slide into the plate well ahead of the relay.
It was bedlam inside the park, as a sellout crowd of 45,660 was deliriously cheering, every feeling that there wasn't going to be a Game 5.
Nope, that's right. The NLCS returns to Philadelphia on Friday.
The reigning NL Most Valuable Player hit a home run in the second game.
In the sixth, it was fitting that the three of them put the game out of reach. The series was a formality because of the singles by Hoskins-Realmuto-Harper.
The first pitch was thrown by Pat Burrell, who won the 2008 World Series, after his teammate from the previous year, Shane Victorino, did the same. The team's run of five straight appearances in the playoffs ended in 2011. With at least one more series ahead, they don't have to look at the other members of that run as the only reminders of the playoffs.
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