Filed under: Phillies, Reds, MLB Playoffs, National League Division Series
PHILADELPHIA -- When West Coast Bias picked the Phillies to win it all this year, I figured the Phils would stroll though the tissue-soft National League playoffs.The Reds aren't putting a dent in that case.
No-hit by Roy Halladay in Game 1, the Reds showed up for Game 2 on Friday, went up by four runs, then turned into seventh-graders in the school play who, upon looking into the crowd, forget their lines.
Philadelphia claimed a 7-4 triumph that was just, but also felt like victory by default.
Starting in the fifth inning, poor Dusty Baker, the Reds manager, had to watch a series of goofs and gaffes that began with consecutive fielding errors by his two best infielders and ended with his right fielder losing a seventh-inning flyball in the lights to bring home the tying and go-ahead runs.
Between those blunders, there was a Red getting picked off first base by several feet, a leadoff walk issued with a two-run lead and a bases-loaded walk by a LaLoosh-like Reds reliever who also hit a Phillies batter, Ben Francisco, in the helmet bill.
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