No, seriously.
You want a few reasons your team can beat what Shane Victorino accidentally called "the best team in baseball" the other day?
Here are four: Jayson Werth, Raul Ibanez, Pedro Feliz, Carlos Ruiz.
You want three more?
Rollins, Victorino, Ryan Howard.
Who knows, maybe Chase Utley will come out of his shell in the World Series as well.
You hear it so often because it is so often true: It's a different star every night with this team. It's been that way since the start of the 2008 postseason. The Phillies have won 18 of 23 games since then, and the ingredients have rarely been the same.
Often lost in last year's pitcher-driven championship run was how poorly the Phillies hit with runners in scoring position. They were 1-for-28 in the split in Tampa, couldn't put the Rays away in that late-night Saturday night Game 3, won when Carlos Ruiz tapped a bases-loaded ball just far enough to knock in the winning run.
And while the Phillies sure had their RISP troubles during the regular season, especially late, this postseason has been much more like the way you thought last year would look.
It's not just a chant anymore. This postseason, everyone hits.
"They're a little more relaxed, I think," hitting coach Milt Thompson said amid the clubhouse celebration last night.
"We've got two MVPs and a potential MVP," Victorino had said during the off day Tuesday. "We've got all-stars on this team. But it's like there are no superstars here. We're all committed to doing anything we can to win."
Victorino, his eyes a bucket of water from a bad cold, took an inside pitch off his shoulder with bases loaded in the fourth inning to drive in the Phillies' sixth run. He blasted a two-run homer to leftfield in the sixth inning, just missed another when he doubled to right in the eighth.
