Adnan Virk

He needed it big time.

He's the NL's leading home run hitter, 56 homers.

He snaps an 0-for-8 skid in the NLDS.

That home run went 455 feet over the pavilion.

Just the second I ever knew that.

Willie Starge lived that back in 1969, 1973.

So clearly the offense stepped up.

Yamamoto did not have his good fastball.

They went at 8-2.

In terms of this performance, listen,

Sanchez has been awesome, as you know.

He's going to be top three in the Cy Young voting.

So for the Phillies, I feel great about the fact that Christopher Sanchez is there.

I wasn't sure about Rob Thompson's strategy of going Nolan Suarez, but it certainly worked out to their advantage.

As you said, win a game four in L.A., then a game five, you're back at home, which necessarily hasn't been an advantage.

But I do like the Phillies to win today.

Glaston is great, but Sanchez has been one of the best pitchers in baseball.

If they can scratch it a couple runs, the one weakness you and I both know, the Dodgers, is their bullpen.

And very smartly, Dave Roberts has been saying, well, I'll just use my starters to get outs.

Well, it didn't work out yesterday for Clayton Kershaw.