Jim Alexander: We’re doing The Audible a little differently today, since for a change we’re both at the same site, though in different areas of Dodger Stadium. A lot to unpack today after Wednesday night’s 8-2 Phillies victory not only prevented the Dodgers from clinching the NL Division Series but may have signaled trouble.
We touched on a couple of those angles in our columns last night. I suggested that Kyle Schwarber’s mammoth 455-foot home run in the fourth inning might have been the blow that changed the series , not just because it touched off a three-run inning but because he’d been in a 0-for-22 slump (including last night’s first at-bat) before picking on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s 2-0 pitch. (Plus, his first of two home runs Wednesday night was just so darned majestic, bouncing