Phillies fans might have a point about Dodgers' crucial umpire advantage in Game 4

After Game 4 of the NLDS ended in the Dodgers' favor, Dave Roberts described it was a "war" between his club and the Phillies. If we want to look at it that way, both teams were engaged in attrition warfare, whittling away at each other by degrees.

Before the moment that everyone will remember, they played 10 2/3 innings of incremental baseball. Tyler Glasnow and Cristopher Sánchez matched each other beat-for-beat; Glasnow was pulled after six scoreless, but Sánchez was still on the mound in the seventh, with the Phillies up by a run thanks to an RBI double from Nick Castellanos.

Sánchez got his first out on a smooth play by Trea Turner, but his walk to Alex Call was where the trouble started — the first increment that led to the Phillies' downfall.

He got Call to a 2-2 count, then threw a sinker that just clipped the inside part of the plate. Home plate umpire Mark Wegner called it a ball, and Call walked on the next pitch. Kiké Hernández singled to put two men on. Rob Thomson made the questionable decision to intentionally walk Shohei Ohtani, and then Mookie Betts walked to bring in Call. The run was credited to Sánchez.

Sánchez said that Wegner apologized to him for the missed call, but it won't change anything. While not nearly as responsible for ending the Phillies' season as Kerkering's error, once again, this was a game of inches.

NLDS Game 4 HP umpire Mark Wegner's apology to Cristopher Sánchez proves Dodgers got very lucky

Per Umpire Scorecards, Wegner called strikes very well but fell very short of league average when it came to missing strikes. All three of his most impactful missed calls came against the Phillies, and worst two were at Sánchez's expense. The first was to strike called a ball to Call, the second was a strike called a ball to Will Smith in the second with a runner on, but Smith ended up grounding into a double play to end the inning.

The third was from Jesus Luzardo, who started the 11th before Kerkering was called in, to Smith on another strike called a ball with another runner on first.

And then, of course, there was The Error, and no one can blame Wegner for that one. But if that call from Sánchez to Smith in the second is any indication, the Dodgers were getting lucky the entire time.

For any Phillies out there still complaining about this, though, they should realize that their team simply could have scored more than one run off Glasnow (a lesser starter than Sanchez) and an inferior bullpen.