Through the first two games of the NLDS, the top of the Phillies' order — Trea Turner, Kyle Schwarber, and Bryce Harper — went 2-for-21 against Dodgers' pitching. They struck out five times against Shohei Ohtani in Game 1 and four times against Blake Snell in Game 2.
Snell's last K of his six-inning, one-hit outing against Philadelphia was on Harper — whose thumb he infamously almost broke in 2022 on a fastball that got away from him — and it was a doozy.
Snell didn't opt for fastballs at all this time around.