"The Phillies had done nothing against the Cardinals and Jaime Garcia. Shut out, shut down and going nowhere.

So there was Ben Francisco, the long-forgotten Phillie, hitting a ball into the St. Louis dusk, a three-run blast into the Phillies' bullpen. It was a shot so sudden that Shane Victorino, who was on second base, said to himself as he watched the ball pass over his head: "I was hoping that it gets in the gap, that nobody catches it."

Nobody did.

Fittingly for the Phillies, that is where it all began in their heart-palpitating, 3-2 win over the Cardinals in Game 3 of the NLDS on Tuesday, giving the Phillies a 2-1 edge in the series and putting the Cardinals on the brink of elimination."