Dave Dombrowski still isn’t over last year’s National League Championship Series.
The longtime major-league executive and current Phillies president of baseball operations thought his team had a second consecutive trip to the World Series in hand returning home with a 3-2 series lead over the 84-win Arizona Diamondbacks. Philadelphia dropped Games 6 and 7 at Citizens Bank Park to squander a ready-made chance for the pennant.
Dombrowski watched as the Phillies failed to meet the moment. Those two losses will sit with him forever.
“They’ll linger for the rest of my life,” Dombrowski said. “I’ve been part of series — I can go back to 2006 and 2013 and tell you a series we should have won and why I thought we should have won, and we got beat.