PHILADELPHIA -- Charlie Manuel can still see it in slow-motion. Brad Lidge's final slider of 2008, in the former manager's eyes, moved across a plane that the Rays' Eric Hiske certainly couldn't reach. It became the pitch that secured the closer's 48th save in 48 opportunities and quenched the Phillies' 28-year World Series championship drought.
"To me," Manuel said, "that was the greatest play of the game right there."
Lidge saves Game 5 Every fan who entered Citizens Bank Park on Sunday received a bobblehead of the ensuing image -- Lidge, on his knees, arms and face pointed to the sky.