Phillies Win 7-5; Take the Stairs to a 3-1 Series Lead

Stair-way to heaven.  Climbing the Stairs.  Stair-ing down destiny. Corny clichés, maybe.  But they tell the tale of an insane Game 4 , capped by a mammoth eighth inning home run by the man, the myth, the legend Matt Stairs. If you don't know much about the guy, there's a reason for that.  He doesn’t play much.  Now 40 years-old, Stairs just hit the biggest (and maybe the furthest) home run of his long career, spring boarding the Phillies to within one game of their first World Series berth in the last 15 years. The story of Matt Stairs leads back to his hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, where Stairs grew up wanting to be a hockey player.  Two hundred and fifty-four home runs later and 16-seasons into an illustrious career, he has helped catapult the Phils to the brink of an NL Pennant. Stairs would have undoubtedly fit in beautifully with the 1993 Phils : a big goatee, a big waste and a big bat.   The villain of the series ... (link)