Phillies pound Dodgers to take 2-1 series lead

by Eric Schwartz

Monday October 19, 2009 

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Now that was an absolute-LEE beautiful beating!

Led by the pitching of Cliff Lee and the hitting of – well – everyone, the Philadelphia Phillies put an old fashioned beat-down on the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday night to take a 2-1 lead in the NLCS.

Lee was again amazing, allowing just three hits, while walking none in eight profound innings.

The Dodger hitters looked clueless at the plat all night.

Meanwhile the Phillies offense went to work early and often, scoring four runs in the first inning on a two run double by Ryan Howard and a two-run bomb to dead center by Jayson Werth.

At that point it was already over.

Citizen’s Bank Park was rocking from the very first pitch as “Beat L.A.” and “You took steroids” chants rang down on Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers.

Joe Torre looked helpless in the dugout, surely wishing he was back with the Yankees, a team that actually has a chance of getting to the World Series.

While it may be too early to say this series is over, it is not too soon to say emphatically that the Dodgers are in big trouble. They aren’t pitching, aren’t hitting and would be down 3-0 if Pedro got to finish his gem on Friday.

Tonight the Phillies see an old friend in Randy Wolf. I don’t know if we will see the return of “The Wolf Pack” but I do know Randy will see plenty of hungry wolves in the form of Phillies hitters.

Philadelphia cut Los Angeles deep last night and can smell the blood. These Dodgers want no part of the cold weather. They looked miserable and they played miserable.

In the past the Phillies have struggled in games after they score a lot of runs. It has been a running joke after the Phillies blow an opponent out to say “We’ll I guess we’re getting shutout tomorrow.”

But not this team, not now.

The Phillies learned all about closing last year and today they will take the next step towards advancing to their second-straight World Series.

And by the looks of last night’s game, there is little the Dodgers can do about it.

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One Response to “Phillies pound Dodgers to take 2-1 series lead”

  1. Jersey Joe on October 19th, 2009 1:54 pm

    I agree as I did with Jo’s blog. Torrie better go looking for Yankee Players insted of Manny and ex Philly rejects.

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