"Like, 'I don't know what's going on.' "
You? How about us? How about the 45,883 at Citizens Bank Park who went into high-octane party mode after Victorino's two-run triple forced you to chug all the way around the bases and upped the Phillies' lead to 8-2?
Those people, every festive one of them, paid for your toils in human emotion from there on in. So did your teammates, who laughed right along with everyone out there - at first.
"I got the biggest kick out of the 90-degree turn at second base," Jayson Werth said. "Most guys get a little circle working there. He ran directly to second, stopped on a dime, made a left turn and then went to third."
Myers arrived hopping. He twisted his right ankle on the play. And although he said it didn't bother him until he was through, the truth is it got pretty messy for him after that. He faced seven batters in the third and gave back a run. Staked to that 8-2 lead, he surrendered a three-run bomb to Ramirez in the fourth, the Dodgers leftfielder holding his fist in defiance at a crowd that grew silent - and stayed that way through the nerve-racking innings that followed.
"That three-run home run certainly put us in the position to scare somebody," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said.
A lot of somebodies, Joe.
And when the Phillies left the bases loaded in the third, and loaded the bases in the fourth and did not score - if you listened hard enough, you could hear the air suction out in the stands.
And in the dugout.
For one old Phillie, there was even some unwanted déjà vu.
Oct. 20, 1993. Game 4, World Series. The Phillies led, 6-3, after two innings, and 12-7 after five. They lost, 15-14, when the Blue Jays scored six runs in the eighth inning, falling behind in the series, 3-1 - the heartbreak that preceded and precipitated Joe Carter.
