Seventy two hours ago, the hottest team in baseball was on its way to Los Angeles.
Around 4:25 this afternoon, Nick Pivetta threw the first pitch of his major league career.
Thirty or forty seconds later, he threw the second, and it bounced into the left field bleachers for a ground rule double.
And thus began a Dodgers offensive assault that, continuing from Saturday night’s repeated daggering, lasted throughout the afternoon. Things had started hopefully, as they have all weekend in L.A. A Cesar Hernandez lead-off triple and Freddy Galvis single gave the Phillies a 1-0 lead.