Ten Minutes All Phillies Need

The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night in the NLCS opener with one brief power surge. “Game 1 lasted 2:36,” Joel Sherman writes in the New York Post. “For perhaps 10 of those minutes, Philadelphia outplayed the Dodgers. It was one four-batter spurt in the bottom of the sixth in which the Phillies capitalized on their offensive diversity and the coziness of their home. That was enough. The speed of Shane Victorino hurried Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal into a throwing error to lead off the sixth, and the power of Chase Utley and Pat Burrell made the price for that mistake a 3-2 loss for the Dodgers.” Associated Press Chase Utley’s home run tied the game and revived the Phillies’ flagging hopes. Utley, whose home run tied the game, had a bit of history with the Dodgers. “The last time the Los... [read full story]