Thursday, October 21, 2010

NLCS: San Francisco 2 - 3 Philadelphia (7th inning stretch)

This game is being played at an incredible level of intensity. Every inning brings high drama of one kind or another, as Halladay and Lincecum pitching into and out of jams. In the top of the seventh, for example, Jimmy Rollins reached on an infield single and stole second and third. This appeared to disrupt Lincecum, who walked Carlos Ruiz for his first walk of the game. The Phillies, looking to capitalize with one out and runners at the corners, sent up Ross Gload to pinch hit for Halladay. Gload hit a line drive -- but it was caught by the first baseman, who stepped on the bag to double off Ruiz and end the inning.

So the Phillies bullpen now has to hold off San Francisco for three more innings. Can they do it? Fangraphs gives Philadelphia a 66 percent chance of victory.

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