Josh Hader too capable to sit out final three games against Phillies and Padres should've matched him against Bryce Harper in Game 5 of the NLCS
Bryce Harper, Phillies star, warranted special treatment. More dangerous than usual, the lefty slugger was riding a hot streak throughout this season and into Sunday’s game. Hader should’ve been the counter. He wasn’t accustomed to entering in the eighth inning, but the conditions called for it.
Even the mist in Philadelphia seemed to beckon Hader. Eight days earlier in rainy San Diego, he’d fired one of the great half innings in Padres history by striking out three Dodgers stars — Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Freeman — to nail the 5-3 win that booted 111-victory L.A. from the playoffs.The crossfire lefty reached 100 mph six times in the postseason. Maintaining his lightning arm speed, he flung changeups and sliders.
Melvin said he planned to divvy the final nine outs between excellent reliever Robert Suarez — who’d been dominant as well for several weeks — and Hader. Suarez had navigated a stressful seventh inning before allowing Realmuto’s single to begin the eighth. Harper maintained his sharp form of other at-bats in the series. Two examples: In Game 1, he stunned righty ace Yu Darvish by lofting a pitch off the outside corner into the left-field seats. Darvish called it a good pitch. A day later Harper watched lefty Blake Snell throw only high-speed fastballs for the game’s first 12 pitches. Able to adjust to Snell’s two-strike slider on the corner, Harper lobbed it beyond shortstop Ha-Seong Kim for a single, initiating a four-run second inning.
The Padres needed six outs before Harper batted. If Hader had bagged four outs, another pitcher would’ve been needed or Hader would’ve had to get more than four outs for the first time in 2022.the Padres should reach the World Series because they had the better pitching staff. The Phillies slammed that pitch out of their ballpark. They scored four, 10 and four runs to sweep the next three games and win the series, 4-1. In Game 3, Phillies No.
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