The bunt that broke my heart

I come to you as a broken baseball fan.

That broke me.

Not so much the Phillies 4-3 loss to the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLDS. That hurt, for sure. It was a series-altering defeat, but one we saw coming, right? When the Dodgers went up 4-0 in the seventh inning, I had all but conceded the night. It was 2-0 Dodgers in the best-of-five series, with the scene shifting to Los Angeles on Wednesday night.

It wasn’t that the Phillies lost. It was how they went down—in part due to one of the most cowardly managerial decisions I can remember in a long, long time.

Let’s count the reasons Bryson Stott’s sacrifice bunt attempt in the bottom of the ninth was an awful decision by Rob Thomson, and why I can’t stop feeling broken today over it.

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