US EditionDodgers Top Phillies in Game 2 of NLDS, One Win From Advancing
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What is the wheel play? How Mookie Betts and the Dodgers pulled off baseball’s rarest defensive gem to save Game 2 of the NLDS against the Phillies
Baseball has a way of sneaking magic into the margins. The game can sit still for hours, pitch after pitch, moving at a snail’s pace, until — in the blink of an eye — something extraordinary unfolds that only the most devoted of fans recognize for what it truly is. On Monday night at Citizens Bank Park, in the bottom...
Philadelphia – Even Dodgers fans immersed in Kirk Gibson’s tradition may not remember Mel Didier’s name. Didier was the scout who issued this warning to the Dodgers in 1988: if you face Dennis Eckersley, the powerful Oakland Athletics Closer, and Count is full, he will throw a slider through the back door. Eckersley launched it, Gibson connected a home run and the Dodgers won the World Series. If these Dodgers win the World Series, no one will h…
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