The Padres catcher and Phillies ace matched up with Game 2—and family bragging rights—on the line.
SAN DIEGO — The hitter strode up to the plate. He had been waiting for a moment like this for a long time: A close playoff game, his team losing, a runner on. He looked to the mound, and he saw the face most familiar to him in the world, the pitcher he knew most intimately.
He stepped into the box against his younger brother.
There were brothers who had played each other in the postseason before. But there had never been brothers who faced each other: There had never been a pitcher on one team, a position player on the other, to come up against one another in October.