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L.A. meets its match in NLCS Game 3

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Sunday, October 18, 2009

PHILADELPHIA -- The first baseman is a hulking, gregarious, 6-foot-5 behemoth from Missouri who has thundered through every minute of his big league life in red pinstripes. The starting pitcher is a low-key, low-volume, low-maintenance left-hander from Arkansas who just pulled into town 11 weeks ago. So if baseball teams were put together by eHarmony, you'd never find two guys like Ryan Howard and Cliff Lee in the same hemisphere, let alone the same locker room. But that's not how this works ...

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