Here was the final at bat and the final swing with Francisco Alvarez up as their final hope.

Runners league second and third.

One-nothing Phillies, two out top nine.

Doran sets the O2 to Alvarez, swung on and missed like three.

Again, the breaking ball, a knuckle curve away, and the ball game is over.

And that was Howie Rose on the Odyssey Radio.

No, not good.

They lose one to nothing.

I mean, the ball, I mean, all right, so we had a check swing.

His first pitch, he was guessing.

He was fooled every time.

I mean, these pitches were, I mean, it should have been three balls.

I think out of all the people that I don't want up in a big situation, he is at the top of that list on this team. He grips the bat's so tight. He tries so hard. He swings at everything. Remember when he first came up a couple years ago in that Atlanta series? And he was just flailing at absolutely everything. It's like he hasn't learned anything since then. Well, they sent him down this year. He came back and he was better initially when he came back.

And now all of a sudden, maybe he's falling into the bad habits again. Well, he's got bad hands, bad fingers. I mean, yeah, he is hurt. He's been fighting through that. Here's Carlos Mendoza. Yeah, another game where we failed in the ninth inning down. I like the fact that we're creating traffic, you know.

We did it yesterday.

We didn't come up with a big hit.

We did it yesterday.

We didn't come up with a big hit.

We did it again today against a pretty good closer.

We just got to get that last one there to get the runners across.

Yeah, that would help, but they're not.

If I mentioned to you August 24th, what would that represent to you guys?

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