The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 5-3 victory in Game 1 of the best-of-seven National League Championship Series on Monday night.

The Phillies’ Bryce Harper crushed a 420-foot home run in the first inning, lined an RBI single in the third inning, walked and scored in the fifth inning, while Nick Castellanos hit a second-inning home run – his fifth home run over three postseason games, tying Reggie Jackson’s moment from the 1977 World Series, when he homered once in Game 4, once in Game 5 and three times in the Game 6 clincher for the New York Yankees.

Game 2 will take place Tuesday night at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park for Game 2; the Diamondbacks’ Merrill Kelly will facing the Phillies’ Aaron Nola.

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