The Philadelphia night felt like it was holding its breath.

The air at Citizens Bank Park was thick with October tension — that uniquely cruel brand of anxiety reserved only for playoff baseball. For nine anxiety-inducing innings, it was pure theater. Two left-handers — Blake Snell for the Dodgers and Jesús Luzardo for the Phillies — dueling under the lights, trading zeroes like heavyweight jabs, each knowing one mistake could unravel everything, before both bullpens turned up the drama to ten.

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It was the kind of game that reminded you why postseason baseball doesn’t need fireworks to feel electric. The silence between pitches was deafening, the collective inhale of over 45,000 sellout fans as Snell lifted his leg

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