Daily News | Rhys Hoskins deserved a magical playoff moment. And he got it with one swing in Game 3.
They’d been through the worst of it. Through the rebuild, and the losing, and the failed prospects and the empty seats and the last four managers and the dead Octobers.
It was only fitting that homegrown cornerstones Aaron Nola and Rhys Hoskins turned out to be the Phillies that won the first playoff game in South Philadelphia in 11 years. They’d produced with inferior teammates, produced as the Eagles won it all and the Sixers surged past them, and they’d done it without a misstep. Friday night’s Game 3 win was theirs, and they’d earned every bit of it.Rhys Hoskins raised his hands, screamed at his dugout, and spiked his bat. He didn’t flip it. He spiked it.
Rhys Hoskins needed this. He hadn’t done much good in the playoffs; 1-for-19 with seven strikeouts, shaky at first base, as usual. Things were going poorly.for all six of his seasons, even after Bryce Harper arrived in 2019.
Now, in the third, he came to the plate insulted. The Braves had intentionally walked Kyle Schwarber, who’d led the league in homers but who, at the moment, was at least as cold as Hoskins. Bryson Stott had doubled at the end of a nine-pitch at-bat, leaving first base open, which meant the Braves were so certain of Hoskins’ failure that they were willing to risk another early run.He got it, on a first-pitch, crippled fastball strider dealt at the knees, down the middle of the plate.
Stott’s at-bat framed the moment, and Schwarber’s pedigree put another duck on the pond, and J.T. Realmuto chased Strider one batter later, and Harper launched lefty reliever Dylan Lee’s first pitch — a meatball fastball — into the Harper Zone in right-center. It was 6-0 when the 10th Phillies batter finally made the third out of the third inning.» READ MORE:
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