Holy shit! What a game!

Now that was awesome. Talk about a rollercoaster ride. We had the Phils go down early. Aaron Nola doing a lot of perspiring out there. Then he limits the damage, they get to Verlander in the 4th and 5th after Dusty Wathan holds Rhys Hoskins at third. Rob Thomson goes ultra-aggressive with the bullpen and brings in the big guns early. The Phils keep it tied, Nick Castellanos makes another ridiculous sliding catch, and then J.T. Realmuto bangs home a solo shot while David Robertson gives us all angina before getting it done in the 10th.

It’s the fourth straight series this postseason in which they’ve won the opening game. All three of those wins on the road, of course, guaranteeing the road split coming back to CBP no matter what happens in game 2. If that performance on Friday night doesn’t say massive cajones, then I don’t know what does. This team just continues to find ways to get it done, dig out of holes, come up with big hits, and post Ws.

By the way, the best part of the Realmuto homer was watching Kyle “pencil neck” Tucker go up and bounce off the wall:

Tucker is going to be the annoying dude of this series. The dickhead Philly killer. Cody Ross and Hideki Matsui 3.0. Nice to see him try and fail there as a cherry on top of a game one win, and the 10th inning strike out was an added bonus. He reminds me of Tom Green if he was an annoyingly good ball player on another team.

On a somewhat similar note, the Astros crowd absolutely stunk. The front three rows had the energy of a Real Housewives taping. They should give the tickets to the mongrels for game two and try to create some kind of real atmospere.

More importantly, the Phillies are now three games away from becoming world champions… world fucking champions. LET’S GO.

(more in the morning)