Final: Phillies 3, Astros 0
HOUSTON — 4,014 days. Six managers. 893 losses. The drought is over.
It was a long, often painful postseason drought for the Philadelphia Phillies, which ultimately spanned more than a decade. But come Friday — 11 years to the date since their last playoffs appearance — the Phillies will return to the postseason. Heck, as things stand now, they’ll face the St. Louis Cardinals, with a chance to end the careers of Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina in the same way that they brought the greatest era of Phillies baseball to a screeching halt in Game 5 of the 2011 NLDS.