After Ryan Howard’s game-tying double in the top of the 9th inning, Brad Lidge earned the save in the Phillies’ Game 4 win over the Rockies in the NLDS.  From Yahoo! Sports:

Brad Lidge, bouncing back from a rugged regular season, earned his second consecutive save by again retiring cleanup batter Troy Tulowitzki with runners on second and first for the final out.

Tulowitzki, who flied out to conclude Game 3, struck out this time and the Phillies celebrated on the infield at chilly Coors Field before retreating to the clubhouse to spray champagne.

For a little while it looked like Lidge had recovered from the moonshot Pujols hit off him in Game 5 of the 2005 NLCS, but he had been atrocious toward the end of this season.  You would think that saving back-to-back playoff games would get this guy’s confidence back up, but I doubt it was ever down to begin with.  My guess is that his poor pitching could have been attributed to injury or age.  Let me explain:  I found out not too long ago that a girl friend of my cousin’s wife had hooked up with Lidge at Notre Dame.  My cousin had the opportunity to ask about what kind of meat Lidge was twerkin’ with, and the friend replied that it was like a hammer.  Lidge had really left an impression.  My point is: if you’re packin’ the type of weapon to punish girls the way Lidge does, you’re not losing confidence when your slider doesn’t move the way you want it to.  Not for a second.