For the first time in more than a decade, the Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia will host a playoff baseball game. After two NLDS games in Atlanta, the best-of-5 series shifts to Philadelphia on Friday afternoon.
Ryan Howard swung and stumbled, belly flopped onto the dirt, then hobbled a step or two before he crumpled to the ground in pain. He sat with his head down while a swarm of St. Louis Cardinals buzzed past him and celebrated their clinching win in the 2011 NL Division Series at Citizens Bank Park.Howard, the once-feared slugger and 2006 NL MVP, never regained his 40-homer, 100-RBI form.
The Phillies, though, don’t want to live in the past. The present has been pretty good for the NL wild-card team that knocked off the Cardinals in the wild card series and took Game 1 against Atlanta. Strider, who turns 24 this month, signed a $75 million, six-year contract on Monday after just 33 big league appearances. Strider, the first pitcher in baseball history to record at least 200 strikeouts while allowing fewer than 100 hits, opened the season as a reliever but then solidified Atlanta’s rotation and helped the Braves win their fifth consecutive NL East title.
The punchless Phillies are looking for anything out of their big bats after a 3-0 loss: NL home run champion Kyle Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins are 1 for 34 in the playoffs. Phillies manager Rob Thomson said he will not move Schwarber and Hoskins from their 1-2 spots in the lineup.
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