Phillies Go Down Swinging And Missing, And Throwing And Missing

In the play-by-play, this is how the Philadelphia Phillies lost the NLDS: With the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning, Los Angeles Dodgers centerfielder Andy Pages bopped a broken-bat ground ball directly to the mound. Phillies relief pitcher Orion Kerkering bobbled the ball, scrambled to recover it, and—with still a lifespan’s worth of time to toss Pages out at first base and end the inning—panicked. He tossed the ball to, or at any rate vaguely toward, home, where it sailed far past the glove of J.T. Realmuto. The Dodgers won the game, and thus the series, on a walk-off throwing error.