NLCS
Game 6
Merrill Kelly pitched a gem and wanted to stay in the game.
Can you blame him? He pitched five innings, allowed one run, walked three, struck out eight, and had the Phillies right where he wanted them after 90 pitches.
But let's get back to the final score of Game 6: Diamondbacks 5, Phillies 1.
Arizona won and extended the NLCS to seven games thanks to back-to-back home runs from Tommy Pham and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. in the second inning. Evan Longoria got into the act with an RBI single to left-center, and the Philadelphia fans were in shock as their Phillies came to bat in the bottom of the second inning down 3-0.
And to make matters worse, as far as the Philly fans were concerned, Kelly still had four innings left on the mound.
As it turned out, Torey Lovullo kept making the moves, and the bullpen came through once again -- first, it was Ryan Thompson, then Andrew Saalfrank, then Kevin Ginkel, and finally Paul Sewald in the ninth.
Arizona added insurance runs in the fifth and seventh. Not that they needed them, as the Phillies put nothing but gooseggs on the scoreboard for the final seven innings.
And now it's on to tomorrow and Game 7.
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