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\"Phillies<\/p>\n

After blowing the opportunity to clinch in front of the home fans, the Philadelphia Phillies (90-61) travelled across the country and brought their postponed party to SoCal as they out-dueled the Los Angeles Dodgers (84-66) to secure their second straight National League East championship.<\/p>\n

Dodgers\u2019 manager, Dave Roberts, tried to pull a fast one and switch the scheduled started from righty, Emmet Sheehan, to lefty opener, Anthony Banda, in an attempt to neutralize the first run-through of Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper. Schwarber flushed that strategy by fighting off a one-out, 2-2 slider into the right field seats. It was Schwarber\u2019s 53rd home run of the season and 22nd against a left-handed pitcher, tied for the major league record for lefty-on-lefty homers in a season with Matt Olson in 2021 and Stan Musial in 1949.<\/p>\n

Ranger Suarez was sturdy but not unbreachable as the Dodgers\u2019 lineup dinked and dunked him for three runs on a couple of sacrifice flys and home run by Max Muncy.<\/p>\n

The originally scheduled starter, Sheehan, then came in and went 5.2 IP scoreless before conceding a ground rule double to Otto Kemp to lead off the seventh inning, who came home to score on a Bryson Stott single.<\/p>\n

The next at bat, Weston Wilson had the biggest hit of his career with a two-run homerun off of Jack Dreyer.<\/p>\n

Orion Kerkering looked dominant in the seventh, collecting all three outs via the strikeout, but made one mistake to Mookie Betts to again bring the game tied.<\/p>\n

Lefty, Alex Vesia, took on Harper to begin the eighth and threw a 1-2 fastball up and inside that somehow Harper got all of for the go-ahead home run.<\/p>\n

After a scoreless eighth by Matt Strahm, Jhoan Duran showed his humanity with a one-out solo home run to Andy Pages to send the game to extra innings.<\/p>\n

In the top of tenth, Harrison Bader started on second, Schwarber lined out and Bryce Harper was intentionally walked. Bader and Harper took a double steal on the first pitch to JT Realmuto, who worked a full count and brought Bader home on a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

David Robertson took on the bottom of the tenth, intentionally walked Freddie Freeman and and unintentionally walked Alex Call, but induced three field outs to end the game.<\/p>\n

Cristopher Sanchez is slated to go up against Shohei Ohtani in the hangover game tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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