A regular season series with massive playoff implications, the Marlins-Phillies Championship Series began Thursday night. The first 85% of the opening game was infuriating for the Fish, characterized by lazy defense and poor situational hitting. They seemed determined to drop below .500.
But Corey Dickerson, Starling Marte and Jorge Alfaro came up with the critical two-out hits in the bottom of the eighth and ninth to finish off the exhilarating comeback. Zach Letson has more.
You won’t see many Dickerson highlights playing on a loop the day after, but I’d like to shout him out specifically.