Phillies-Padres updates: Bryce Harper, Rhys Hoskins put Philly back on top
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Photos: Phillies defeat the Padres 10-6
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Phillies one win away from World Series with Game 4 win over Padres
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Zach Eflin comes in to pitch the ninth inning
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Noah Syndergaard and David Robertson did their job.
The two Phillies trade deadline acquisitions combined to allow no runs and just three hits during their three innings of work late in Game 3.
Zach Eflin will pitch the ninth, and if the Phillies are able to close this out, they’ll have Zack Wheeler on the mound Sunday, with rested Alvarado/Dominguez for potential clinch game.
— Scott Lauber and Rob Tornoe
Schwarber’s home runs have had some distance.
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J.T. Realmuto adds to Phillies lead with solo homerun
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‘I flip them off right back’
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Hyrum Oteo got off a plane at Philadelphia International Airport at 5 p.m. and headed straight for Citizens Bank Park with his Padres jersey and the knowledge that he was in for a hard time. But he had a strategy.
“They flip me off, and I flip them off right back,” said Oteo, a lifelong San Diegan who sported Manny Machado’s number 13 on his back. “On the street, everybody’s yelling. I just yell, ‘Go Padres!’”
It felt a little bit of a badge of honor, Oteo said. The Padres aren’t a perennial contender.
“We’ve never been booed before,” he said.
— Kristen A. Graham
Kyle Schwarber’s home run adds to Phillies’ lead
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The legend of Kyle Schwarber’s home run power, from high school and college to the Phillies 
Bryce Harper’s dominant postseason continues
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Phillies slugger Bryce Harper is having a monster postseason.
So far during the playoffs, Harper is 16-38 (.421) with six doubles, four home runs, and nine RBIs in 41 plate appearances.
Tonight, Harper is 2-3 with two doubles and two RBIs.
— Scott Lauber
Phillies add another run
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Phillies take the lead on Bryce Harper double
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Deja Vu? The first inning happened twice.
The Rhys Hoskins Redemption Tour continued. Hoskins, whose errant play has made him a fan target, hit his second two-run homer of the night to tie it at 6 in the fifth. He has four homers in the playoffs.
Then, after J.T. Realmuto walked (again), Bryce Harper doubled him in (again). The Phillies took a 7-6 lead
— Marcus Hayes
Rhys Hoskins ties the game with second homer of the night
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Fox’s John Smoltz predicted that Juan Soto homer
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Padres back on top with Juan Soto home run
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Brad Hand, who hit Jake Cronenworth then gave up two hits in the meltdown fifth inning of Game 2 that cost the Phillies a chance, just walked a batter and gave up Juan Soto’s first home run of the playoffs to make it 6-4 in the top of — you got it — the fifth inning.
— Marcus Hayes
Phillies tie the game
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Phillies and Padres bullpens strong in relief so far
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After the starters got shelled and Connor Brogdon gave up a single, relievers Brogdon and Andrew Bellatti of the Phillies and Nick Martinez of the Padres retired 19 straight hitters, combined.
— Marcus Hayes
Connor Brogdon does his job in relief
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Astros take 3-0 lead against Yankees in ALCS
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First inning lasted 50 minutes
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For starters, Game 4 has been ugly
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The starters have lasted a combined two outs, both by Phillies lefty Bailey Falter. Padres starter Mike Clevinger went single-homer-walk-double, and, with nobody out in the first, Nick Martinez has replaced Clevenger, who leaves with a 4-3 “lead.”
— Marcus Hayes
What ‘advantage’ did Falter have?
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Rob Thomson said before Game 4 that former bullpen lefty Bailey Falter would make his 18th career start, and his first in the playoffs, because “I think there’s a little advantage, depending on how he throws.”
What advantage? Josh Bell was 4-for-5 with two homers against Falter. Juan Soto was 3-for-8. No other Padre had seen him more than once. Perhaps Thomson hoped unfamiliarity would help Falter.It did not.
Manny Machado had never seen a single pitch from Falter. He now has seen one, and he deposited it in the left-field stands. Jake Cronenworth was 1-for-1. He walked. Brandon Drury hadn’t seen Falter. He doubled two runs home, and Falter was done. Drury scored when reliever Connor Brogdon gave up an RNI single to Ha-Seong Kim.
Maybe Thomson’s strategy had more to do with avoiding hitters who had battered Noah Syndergaard.
Soto was 5-for-18 against Syndergaard. Machado was 4-for-9. That’s pretty much it.
Oh, well.
— Marcus Hayes
Give up four? Hoskins answers with a blast
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Boos drowned out cheers when Rhys Hoskins was introduced Saturday night, both before the game and before his first at-bat. He’d committed an error in Game 3 that cost the Phillies a run, and he entered hitting .135, though with two homers, including a three-run series-changer in the NLDS. Hoskins smashed a full-count homer that cut the lead to 4-2. There were no ore boos.
— Marcus Hayes
Padres add to lead after pitching change
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New pitcher (Connor Brogdon). Similar result.
That put San Diego up 4-0 in the first inning. Brogdon was able to escape, however, without anymore damage.
— Matt Mullin
Padres chase Falter from game in first inning
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Bailey Falter retired the first two Padres hitters with ease before … well … faltering. He allowed a solo home run to Manny Machado and a single to Josh Bell, walked Jake Cronenworth, and gave up a two-run double to right-center field to Brandon Drury.
After throwing 24 pitches and recording two outs, Falter is out, Connor Brogdon is in, and it’s 3-0 Padres.
— Mike Sielski
Brave fans explore enemy territory
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Harper Grace Hutter, 8, sported her Padres jersey proudly, but she had been prepared before walking into Citizens Bank Park.
“My mom and dad said, ‘You can’t go around and say boo Phillies,’” said Harper. The Hutter family are from San Diego but now live in Washington D.C.; when the Padres advanced to the postseason, Eric and Katie Hutter decided to bring Harper and her brother Dean, 6, north for the weekend.
“It’s not a guarantee that we’re going to be in the playoffs, so we thought we’d splurge,” Eric Hutter said. Decked out in Padres brown and yellow, they were braced for heckling, but “it’s been very positive,” Katie Hutter said. “Maybe because we have kids.”
– Kristen A. Graham
Manny Machado gives Padres early lead
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Game 4 is underway
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First pitch of Game 4 was just after 7:47 p.m. from Citizens Bank Park as the Phillies look to go up 3-1 over the Padres in the National League Championship Series.
Stay tuned here for live updates, highlights, and instant analysis all night long.
— Matt Mullin
Watch: Tom Rinaldi pens love letter to Philly fans — takes shot at Flyers
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I’m hoping this was written when the Flyers were expected to be the team off to the slow start, not the Sixers. Because Tom Rinaldi took an unnecessary shot at a Flyers team that has overachieved this season, while the Sixers are the ones should be on the receiving end of this kinds of shots…
— Matt Mullin
Watch: Ryan Howard throws out first pitch of Game 4
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Will the Phillies turn to Gibson again in Game 4?
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On Wednesday in San Diego, at the end of Game 2 of the NLCS, something happened that nobody expected: Kyle Gibson pitched.
Saturday night, as the Phillies cobble together nine innings from the back of their rotation the middle of their bullpen, will be Gibson’s next best chance to appear in the playoffs.
If you only casually followed the Phillies last season or this, that statement might seem foolish. Of course Kyle Gibson would pitch in the playoffs. But if you followed the team closely, you understand that Gibson is probably the 26th man on the 26-man roster.
It’s been a strange trip.
In 2021, Gibson was the centerpiece of a deadline deal that sent pitching prospect Spencer Howard to Texas. It also landed reliever Ian Kennedy, but Gibson was the hotter commodity. He’d just made his first All Star team, at 33; he was owed just $4 million, which the Rangers paid; and was under contract for 2022 at $8 million.
“We think we made ourselves better now, and we’re also in a position for next year that we have another starting pitcher in our rotation which is helpful,” general manager Dave Dombrowski said.
At that moment Ranger Suarez had just won the closer’s job. Zach Eflin was injured, again.
Fast-forward 14 1/2 months. Suarez is the No. 3 starter, and he’s 1-0 in two postseason starts, with a 2.16 ERA. Eflin has been hurt again, recovered again, and he’s pitching in high-leverage situations out of the bullpen. Noah Syndergaard, this year’s shoulder-shrug deadline addition, started the fourth and final game of the NLDS. Bailey Falter started Game 4 of the NLCS.
Gibson? His inconsistency has relegated him to afterthought status.
In 2021, after a disastrous season debut, Gibson went 6-3 with a 2.48 ERA in 18 starts. After the trade he went 4-1 with a 2.05 ERA in his first five starts as a Phillie, then faded: 0-4 with a 7.31 ERA in his last six starts.
This season was even more bizarre. He was mediocre through July 2, when he gave up four home runs to four consecutive Cardinals hitters with two out in the top of the first inning. He was going to crater, right?
Wrong. Gibson went 5-2 with a 2.80 ERA in his next. nine starts. He took a perfect game into the seventh inning against Washington on Aug. 5. He threw seven shutout innings against the Pirates on Aug. 27, as Suarez, now a starter, struggled. There was no question that, if the Phillies made the playoffs, Gibson would slot in at No. 4 at worst.
Then he went off a cliff: 1-3 with a 9.73 ERA in five starts, the centerpiece of the September slide that nearly cost the Phillies the third wild-card slot.
He got the final four outs Wednesday in a game that certainly was not decided. He entered trailing by four runs, struck out a batter to end the Padres’ seventh, watched the Phillies score a run in the eighth, then issued a walk and a weak hit in his scoreless eighth. His fastball exceeded 95 mph. He looked sharp.
Of course, he hadn’t pitched in 18 days. It’s been three days since he last appeared.
Will he appear again? Will he look sharp?
— Marcus Hayes
Phillies mega-fan saves an empty Game 4 seat for his late father
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For years, mega-fan Geoff Crawley experienced every important moment in Philadelphia sports with his dad.
“When I was a kid, we would go to Phillies games, we would go to Sixers games. He was the guy who would yell at the referees and the umpires,” said Crawley.
When the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018, George “Skip” Crawley was on a cruise in Australia, but called his son and the two didn’t talk for a long time; they just cried happy tears.
Skip Crawley died of cancer over the summer, but he was at Citizens Bank Park Saturday for Game 4 of the National League Championship series in the form of a seat in Section 208 where only a black hoodie bearing his picture sat in the seat next to his son — courtesy of Phillies shortstop Bryson Stott.
“Dad would have loved this,” said Geoff Crawley, 49.
Saving a seat for Skip: The seat beside this Phillies mega-fan is empty — in honor of his late dad
— Kristen A. Graham
Wheeler credits fastball accuracy to watching a Phillies rival
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There are notable similarities in the pitching styles of Zack Wheeler and Jacob deGrom.
It isn’t a coincidence.
Wheeler, who will start Sunday for the Phillies in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, admitted he harnessed his fastball command by watching deGrom when they were teammates with the New York Mets.
“He threw a couple bullpens in between each start, and one bullpen would literally just be 10 or so glove-side fastballs. That was it,” Wheeler said. “And then the next day he’d do his normal bullpen, and then he’d start off the next day doing the exact same thing.
“I really concentrated on doing that, and ever since, I’ve been able to command for the most part that side of the plate. And I think my command all around got a lot better because that is the hardest pitch to throw — a glove-side fastball — pretty consistent.”
Wheeler and deGrom have nearly identical repertoires, right down to their upper-90s fastballs. The ace right-handers also feature nasty sliders and while sprinkling in curveballs and the occasional changeup.
Two years ago, as Wheeler was ascending to the top of the Phillies’ rotation, former Mets pitching coach Dave Eiland likened him to deGrom, a comparison that Wheeler welcomes.
“He’s one of the best pitchers, if not the best,” Wheeler said. “You try to take some things from that.”
How watching Jacob deGrom helped the Phillies’ Zack Wheeler harness his fastball
— Scott Lauber
Jayson Werth to throw out Game 5 first pitch
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Next up for a first pitch: Jayson Werth.
Werth, the former Phillies right fielder, will do the honors Sunday before Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, the team announced Saturday night.
In four seasons with the Phillies from 2007-10, Werth batted .282/.380/.506 with 95 home runs. He hit two homers in the 2009 World Series against the New York Yankees and finished eighth in the NL MVP voting in 2010 before signing a seven-year, $126 million contract with the Washington Nationals, where he eventually teamed up with Bryce Harper.
Werth, 43, will be the fifth member of the 2008 World Series championship team to throw a ceremonial first pitch in these playoffs. Shane Victorino and Pat Burrell did so in the divisional round against the Atlanta Braves before Matt Stairs in Game 3 of the NLCS Friday night. Ryan Howard is set to throw the first pitch before Game 4 Saturday night.
Jayson Werth to throw out first pitch at Game 5 of the NLCS on Sunday
— Scott Lauber
They’ve already started greasing the poles on Broad Street
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Everyone knows Philly fans love to celebrate big wins. Those who have seem them do it before know they have one particular way to show their spirit — or perhaps get a better vantage point — and that’s climbing the city’s light and traffic poles.
So, for years, the city has been greasing the poles on Broad Street when there’s a potential big celebration around the corner. They did it most recently during the Eagles Super Bowl run, but that didn’t stop everyone from getting to the top.
Now, with the Phillies up 2-1 over the Padres in the NLCS — and at the risk of jinxing themselves — the city has already began greasing some poles on Broad.
With two wins still separating the Phillies from a World Series berth, “light poles are being greased as a preliminary public safety measure,” city spokesperson Kevin Lessard said in a statement. Barricades have also been erected at “key locations,” and “any other type of public safety measures for this weekend are still being discussed at this time.”
City police are evaluating patrols, Lessard said, and across Philadelphia officials “remain in ongoing contact with local business stakeholders to advise them on how to prepare for potential events in their corridors.”
Police had already been barred from taking time off through Tuesday in preparation for fan celebrations, and officials had warned that they will be enforcing open container laws if a celebration spills into the streets.
Grease the poles: City begins preparations for a possible Phillies pennant
— Matt Mullin and Kristen A. Graham
Lineups out for Phillies-Padres Game 4
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In a game featuring starters Bailey Falter for the Phillies and Mike Clevinger for the Padres, San Diego will trot out a different lineup than they did in Game 3:
The Phillies, meanwhile, will run it back with the same lineup:
— Matt Mullin
Jason Kelce — and Miles Teller and the Phanatic — starred in Game 3. Who will it be in Game 4?
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The Citizens Bank Park crowd was growing quiet, but exploded into cheers when Eagles center Jason Kelce, currently enjoying a week off thanks to the Birds’ bye week, ran onto the field with both fists raised in the air.
Kelce was immediately embraced by the Phillie Phanatic, and after jumping up and down with the lovable mascot, he waved a red rally towel along with the crowd and chugged a full can of beer.
His entire appearance only lasted two minutes, but the Phillies didn’t allow another run after Kelce’s appearance, and the crowd remained loud and engaged through Seranthony Dominguez’s final pitch, which sealed the 4-2 win.
Actor Miles Teller was also in the stands soaking it all in.
Which stars will show out for Game 4? And will any — aside from Ryan Howard, scheduled to throw the first pitch — fire up the 45,000 fans in attendance the way Kelce did?
Jason Kelce was the star of Phillies-Padres Friday night
— Rob Tornoe
Jean Segura, Bryson Stott share a special bond
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Bryson Stott is a 25-year-old rookie, and Jean Segura is a 11-year MLB veteran, but both are in the postseason for the first time. It is their slow heartbeats have allowed them to thrive. On Friday night, in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, Segura missed a ball that Stott threw to him at second base. What should have been a double play allowed a run to score in the fourth inning and tied the game at 1.
Just a half-inning later, with two runners on, Segura lined a two-run single to right field to give his team a 3-1 lead. In the top of the sixth inning, the Padres threatened again. With runners on first and second and one out, Josh Bell hit a ball Segura’s way.
This time, Segura handled it with ease. … As he walked off the field, he pumped his arms, flexed and let out a cathartic yell into the October air.
Stott likes seeing this emotion from his double play partner. He knows how much these moments mean to Segura and how long he has waited to experience them. …
“Everything you went through was worth it to get here,” Segura told Stott after they clinched a playoff spot in Houston. “And everything I went through was worth it as well.”
When Segura noticed Stott was struggling in April and May, he decided to take him under his wing. He challenged the rookie to use his two-strike approach more often, starting with just 10 at-bats. From there, Stott took off, and the two have been close ever since.
More than a double-play tandem: Phillies veteran Jean Segura shares a close bond with rookie Bryson Stott
— Alex Coffey
Kyle Schwarber battling through knee injury
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Kyle Schwarber injured his knee during the last week of the season in Washington. Bryson Stott noticed him hobble after sliding into home plate, knowing immediately that something was wrong. The coaching staff told Matt Vierling to be ready as he would take Schwarber’s place if the injury took him out of the lineup.
But Schwarber — who plays with the same toughness he had as a linebacker in high school — wouldn’t let that happen. Manager Rob Thomson said it would have been a “fist fight” if the Phillies ever wanted to place Schwarber on the injured list. So Schwarber just kept playing.
“I think the cool thing about him is he didn’t want people to know he was hurt,” Rhys Hoskins said. “People look up to him as a leader, someone to follow. He knows that. He knows the kind of pull he has on guys, especially young guys. He tries to keep those guys confident because they know he’s confident.”
Schwarber had just one hit in 20 at-bats during the team’s first six postseason games, his knee sapping the production that carried the Phillies for stretches of the season. So far this series against the Padres, he has four hits in 10 at-bats, including a pair of home runs, in three games.
Kyle Schwarber is ‘grinding through’ a knee injury but still setting the tone for the Phillies
— Matt Breen
Phillies grab NLCS advantage, but who’s favored to take Game 4?
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Oddsmakers pegged the NLCS as a coin flip once the San Diego Padres evened the series and things shifted to Philadelphia for three games.
Then Game Three happened. The Phillies got timely hitting and fielding from Jean Segura and shutdown innings from their bullpen to nab a 2-1 advantage in the series.
Now, entering Game 4 with a 2-1 lead and with starts by Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola to follow in Games 5 and 6, respectively, the Phillies are -225 favorites at BetMGM to advance to the World Series for the first time since 2009.
How are the odds looking for Game 4?
Let’s do the coin flip thing again, thanks to the pitching matchup and the likelihood Game 4 turns into an all-hands-on-deck bullpen affair.
Game 4 of NLCS is a coin flip (again), but Phillies have series edge
— Jeff Neiburg, The Action Network
Tom McCarthy won’t join WIP’s broadcast in Game 4
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Tom McCarthy will trade in his microphone on Saturday night to be the Father of the Groom as he’ll miss Game Four of the National League Championship Series to attend his son’s wedding.
McCarthy has broadcasted a few innings on the radio during each postseason game since the TV broadcasts are handled in October by national outlets. By the time of Saturday’s first pitch, McCarthy will be at the Bucks County wedding reception for his son Patrick and his soon-to-be daughter-in-law Emily.
Patrick McCarthy is the play-by-play voice of the triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs and considered a rising talent in the industry. He has filled in a few times on Phillies radio and TV during the last two seasons and was recently seen on the Phillies broadcast interviewing players in Houston after they clinched a postseason berth.
Phillies broadcaster Tom McCarthy to miss Game 4 of the NLCS
— Matt Breen
Seranthony Dominguez rose to the challenge Friday night
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As the eighth inning of Game 3 of the National League Championship Series was coming to a close on Friday night, Phillies manager Rob Thomson spotted Seranthony Domínguez at the opposite end of the dugout. Domínguez had thrown 18 pitches an inning earlier, but he had a wet towel wrapped around his right arm to keep it warm, an indication that he was preparing to go back out for the ninth.
Thomson walked over to Domínguez. It was a short conversation.
“How are you feeling?” The manager asked.
“Good,” Domínguez said.
“Can you keep going?” Thomson asked.
“Yes,” Domínguez said.
‘It was everything’: Phillies’ Seranthony Dominguez rises to the challenge of six-out save
— Alex Coffey
Final out of Game 3 could be heard more than a mile away
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Phillies will turn to Bailey Falter for Game 4 start
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Phillies manager Rob Thomson’s main priority was securing a Game 3 victory, even if that meant turning to multiple options in the bullpen.
“As we get deeper into the five days [of straight games], we have to be careful,” Thomson said.
Thomson made three pitching changes throughout the game after having Ranger Suárez start on the mound. He decided to lift Suárez, who allowed two hits, two runs, and struck out three while throwing 68 pitches, after five innings and bring in a right hander Zach Eflin at the top of sixth.
After bringing Eflin, Thomson turned to José Alvarado, and ultimately Seranthony Domínguez. Thomson believes the first two will be available to throw in Saturday’s Game 4, but not Domínguez, who picked up the two-inning save in the win.
Bailey Falter will start Game 4 over other options like Noah Syndergaard, who started Game 4 against the Atlanta Braves in the National League Division Series. Thomson hopes to get three innings out of Falter.
“We just have a few more left-handed hitters in this lineup,” Thomson said when asked why Falter will get the start. “A lot of the right handers are even split guys, so we kind of liked that matchup better, and Syndergaard is not out of the question within the game.”
The Padres will counter with righty Mike Clevinger, who allowed five runs in 2⅔ innings during his start against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the National League Division Series.
— Isabella DiAmore
Photos from Game 3′s win over the Padres
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Phillies take 2-1 lead over Padres with Friday night win
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Gather ‘round, Phillies fans, and listen to the story of an infielder who made a costly error one inning and delivered a decisive hit in his next at-bat in a National League Championship Series game.
Wait, what? You’ve heard that one before?
No, this isn’t about the late Kim Batiste, whose goat-to-hero turn in Game 1 of the 1993 NLCS against the Braves earned him a forever entry in Phillies lore. Rather it’s the tale of Jean Segura’s eventful Friday night in Game 3 of this year’s NLCS, a cuticle-chomping 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres that gave the Phillies a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series with two more games at raucous Citizens Bank Park.
We’re still shaking our heads over the maddening and marvelous Segura, who can bumble and stumble but still wind up flexing and shouting like Hulk Hogan.
“We’re all going to make mistakes. We’re human,” Segura said. “But don’t make it again. Or after you make it, the way you go about your business, maybe I get an opportunity later to win the game or maybe to do something special. I didn’t let that error affect my next two, three at-bats.”
Segura did both — and in the same inning, no less — in the first NLCS game in Philadelphia since Oct. 23, 2010.
Rob Thomson’s aggressive bullpen usage, Jean Segura’s big hit lead Phillies to 4-2 victory, 2-1 lead in NLCS
— Scott Lauber
Phillies-Padres Game 4: How to watch and stream
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Phillies-Padres Game 4 is scheduled to begin at 7:45 p.m. Eastern on Fox.
Calling the series for Fox is play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and analyst John Smoltz, who have become familiar voices to Phillies fans after calling both their wild-card and divisional round games, and all three games during the NLCS. Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci will be reporting from the field at Citizens Bank Park, joined at times by the Philly Phanatic.
On 94.1 WIP, Phillies announcers Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen will once again handle play-calling duties. They’ll be joined in the fifth and sixth innings by Tom McCarthy, the team’s TV voice on NBC Sports Philadelphia, which doesn’t have the rights to air any Phillies playoff games.
Bill Kulik and Oscar Budejen will broadcast Phillies-Padres in Spanish on La Unika 1680 AM. The game will also air on TV in Spanish on Fox Deportes, with Adrian Garcia Marquez and Edgar Gonzalez on the call.
Where can I stream Phillies-Padres?
Phillies-Padres will stream on the Fox Sports app, though it will only be available to those with a cable subscription.
The game will also stream on any so-called skinny bundle that carries Fox, including fuboTV, YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, and DirecTV Stream. Most offer a free trial.
If you’re looking to stream the game for free, your best option if you live near Philadelphia is to use an over-the-air antenna.
Phillies-Padres Game 4: Start time, channel, how to watch and stream MLB playoffs
— Rob Tornoe
Full Phillies-Padres NLCS playoff schedule
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