Austin Riley did two things wrong Monday night. He wasn’t supposed to swing at that pitch. He wasn’t supposed to be there for that play. But he did, and he was, and he just might have saved his team’s season.
“Right place, right time,” he says with a grin.
The National League Division Series is now tied at one game apiece after Atlanta snatched Game 2, 5–4. The Phillies blanked Atlanta in Game 1—the first time Atlanta had been shut out at home in two years—and seemed close to doing the same thing in Game 2, setting up an elimination game at hostile Citizens Bank Park. Ace Zack Wheeler took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, the offense put 16 men on base and the team enjoyed a win probability of 92% with 10 outs to go.
