Forget the teams. Forget the records. Forget the narratives. This wasn’t supposed to be a fair fight. It had nothing to do with the San Francisco Giants. It had nothing to do with the Philadelphia Phillies. Styles make fights, and sometimes fights aren’t fair.
This wasn’t the team in red vs. the team in orange. It wasn’t the Giants vs. the Phillies. It wasn’t the powerhouse vs. the team trying to establish the traction.
It was the ace vs. the bullpen. Zack Wheeler vs. a heterogenous mishmash of mid-inning arms sans its best options.