“You know what was the best and the most painful lesson that I learned in my career? The postseason is a real crapshoot. The reality is what makes the postseason so exciting is that in a short series, a hot pitcher, hot player, can be the difference. And that’s why it’s no disgrace to the Phillies that they got beat that year. It happens in the postseason all the time.”
Tony LaRussa to Meghan Montemurro of The Athletic
Game 5 of the 2011 Cardinals-Phillies NLDS is not something baseball fans have forgotten in the nine years since that fateful game.