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Phillies' sixth-inning homers sink Lowe, Dodgers in Game 1

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 9, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -- Not even submarines sink like a Derek Lowe sinkerball. It's more than a pitch. It's a subterranean robot. And for five innings Thursday night, that Derek Lowe sinkerball was doing exactly what it's designed to do to offenses like the Phillies' -- squishing defenseless blades of grass all over the infield at Citizens Bank Park. So as the bottom of the sixth arrived in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, not even the Psychics Hotline could have predicted the turn ...

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