"Early in Game 3 of the National League Division Series on Wednesday, the Dodgers had all the momentum. They'd already taken each of the first two games of this best-of-five set in Philadelphia. Their best pitcher this season, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, had started his night with three scoreless innings. Then, after a questionable pitching change from Phillies manager Rob Thomson in the bottom of the third, Tommy Edman greeted newly inserted left-hander Ranger Suárez with a leadoff home run to open the scoring."
"In postseason baseball, however, momentum can be a fickle thing. Every new inning brings the potential for a plot twist. Every at-bat carries the threat of a turning point. And every single pitch can prove to be the difference. "You never know in the playoffs," Kiké Hernández said pregame, "which pitch is going to win you a game." On Wednesday, in the Phillies' come-from-behind, elimination-staving 8-2 win, the pitch that lost the Dodgers the game came with no outs in the fourth."
Kyle Schwarber hit a 455-foot fourth-inning home run that shifted Game 3 momentum and fueled the Phillies' 8-2 win over the Dodgers. The Dodgers had taken the first two games and Yoshinobu Yamamoto had worked three scoreless innings before a Phillies pitching change brought in Ranger Suárez, who yielded a leadoff homer to Tommy Edman. Postseason momentum swung as Schwarber's blast rattled Yamamoto and led to his unraveling. Clayton Kershaw struggled in the eighth inning, sealing the Phillies' victory. The win prevents Philadelphia's elimination and alters series momentum, although Los Angeles still leads 2-1 in the best-of-five NLDS.
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