Phillies cash in on second-inning blunders by Padres in NLCS Game 2

Putting the shot successful play tin often pb to bully things, careless of the prime of contact.

The Philadelphia Phillies showed that successful the 2nd inning of Game 2 of the National League Championship Series connected Wednesday, erstwhile they scored 4 runs connected balls that either weren't deed hard oregon should've been handled.

There was a treble connected a alert shot that San Diego Padres close fielder Juan Soto mislaid successful the sun. And an RBI groundout connected a shot that archetypal baseman Brandon Drury didn't tract cleanly capable to either grounds the retired astatine location oregon statesman an inning-ending treble play. And 4 singles, nary of which traveled much than 85 mph.

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Two of the batted balls -- Matt Vierling's alert shot to Soto and Edmundo Sosa's flare to near field, which fell straight successful beforehand of Jurickson Profar -- carried drawback probabilities of astatine slightest 95%. It didn't matter. The Phillies, who entered 5-0 erstwhile scoring archetypal successful these playoffs, had an aboriginal four-run pb andforced Blake Snell to navigate a 37-pitch inning.