One of my favorite at bats in Phillies Post season history, an almost 5 minute long battle but Ryan crushes it! (Game 1 2011 NLDS)

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1. My thoughts on this in no particular order.

   From then until now, a lot has changed, most glaring is the ABs are much faster. Monster HR and Howard just dropped his bat and watched it go and back then that was kind of spicy. Now you spike the bat and have a celebration on the first base line and that’s totally normal. That was 13 years ago but it feels like a lifetime ago. One thing stayed the same, the fans at CBP, hallowed grounds.

2. That’s five minutes for seven pitches? Eight pitches?

   It’s like an entirely different game.

3. Thank god for the pitch clock

4. Kyle Lohse and giving up homers in the WC round at CBP, name a better duo.

5. Big Piece owned his home town Cardinals. Career 1083 OPS.

6. When he got one you just knew it was gone.

7. This could be a good post on the baseball subreddit too!