Daily News | The 2022 Phillies are gone, but will not soon be forgotten
lost the World Series, because that’s the way history works. We tell it with ourselves at the center. But the victors deserved to write this one. The Astros won it. They were simply better.
That came as little consolation in the immediate aftermath. As the Astros leaped over the dugout railing and swarmed the mound, the Phillies looked on from their side of the field, as if unsure of what to do. Whatever Rhys Hoskins’ future holds, the home runs will overshadow the groundouts. Jean Segura’s go-ahead single, Brandon Marsh’s double-robbing grab in center, all those leadoff Schwarbombs.Phillies and Union make history, ending storybook season on the same day during a wild Philadelphia fallWheeler did what he could in Game 6. He gave what he had, probably more. For three innings, he was close to perfect. Then, his velocity dipped. In the sixth, his command began to go with it.
Depth was the difference. Houston was a team built for the long haul. The further down the roster you went, the more apparent it became. The longer these two teams kept playing, the more lopsided the win-loss count would have grown. Hero ball can carry you only so far. It’s remarkable it carried the Phillies where it did.
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