THIS IS AS CLOSE to a wide-open shot or a gimme putt as baseball offers. Up two games to none in a best-of-five series. It isn't perfect but, like old age, it sure beats the alternative.
It doesn't stink to be the Phillies right now. They've sent the upstart Milwaukee Brewers reeling with a pair of home wins and now move on to Wisconsin, where they are well-positioned to wrap up their first trip to the National League Championship Series since 1993.
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Brewers' Rickie Weeks takes out Jimmy Rollins during eighth-inning doubleplay attempt.
