PHILADELPHIA — The story of this Phillies season, however it ends, cannot be written without mention of Bailey Falter and all that he represents.
What happened Saturday doesn’t change that.
OK, so Falter got rocked by the Atlanta Braves and didn’t survive the fourth inning in a 6-3 loss in the Phillies’ penultimate regular season home game before 36,692 at Citizens Bank Park. He gave up 10 hits, including home runs to William Contreras and Michael Harris II, and trudged off the mound after dropping the Phillies down a six-run hole against the defending World Series champions, a team they may face in a best-of-three wild-card series less than two weeks from now.
