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Stephanie Apstein

Phillies Finally Look Mortal at Home in Massive Game 6 Letdown

From the people who brought you Bedlam at the Bank, a year to the day later … Bedtime at the Bank.

The Phillies looked flat in Monday’s Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, which the Diamondbacks won 5–1 to force a winner-take-all Game 7 on Tuesday. It was the worst performance by a group of people who reside part time in Pennsylvania since Mehmet Oz’s senatorial campaign. By the eighth inning, the 45,473 in attendance could barely bring themselves to boo erstwhile closer Craig Kimbrel as he entered for mop-up duty. (They managed, though.)

The series looked over when the Phillies took a commanding 2–0 lead in the first games here, but the Diamondbacks took two out of three in Phoenix and looked on Monday like the plucky underdogs who swept the Dodgers in the National League Division Series.

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