Breaking ball and a cold. Strike three. Third strike out for Zach. He's going to just watch it go. A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Huffer watches it fly.

From W.HYY, this is Hittin Season, a Philadelphia Phillies podcast.

My name is Justin Clue.

I write for baseball prospectus with me as Liz Rocher, the editor of Sabres' Baseball Research Journal.

Hello, Liz.

Hello, Justin.

Well, you're like me.

You might still be fanning yourself off from the game last night that we got to see.

The Phillies open a four games set with the Atlanta Braves at home, and boy, did they open it.

They opened it real hard in perhaps a way that was important for everyone watching or playing in the game to experience.

I mean, let's just take a step back real quick from the Phillies 19 to 4 victory over the Atlanta Braves last night that saw history be made off the bat of Kyle Schwarber.

But first, yeah, Liz, the Phillies left City Field in a body bag.

I think it's fair to say.

The MET series, we all still can remember fresh in our minds,

was very much a factor in people's moods and how they were measuring the Phillies outlook moving forward.

It's tough not to do. You know, one loss like that in New York

is bad enough that the Phillies did, in fact, pile up three of them, saving their most futile and

pathetic effort for game three, really didn't put people in the best of headspaces heading

back home to play the Braves. Kyle Schwarber, rest of the Phillies, had some quotes after the

second game loss, just talking about the Phillies struggles at City Field and flushing and how they've got this now 10-game losing streak that goes back to last year's playoffs. And, you know, it's in everybody's heads. Especially the fans. I think you're going to see the fans reacting a lot more viscerally than that. Players, you know, with their media training and ability to control their emotions when a camera is running, aren't going to be pulling their hair out the way you, I don't know, almost wish they were. You want to see a reflection of your own hysteria in the players, but they're not going to give you that, which, you know, they shouldn't. and Kyle Schwarber said, I don't give a hell about the stigma. It's on us to go out there and win a game at the end of the day.

It's not listening. but they're not going to give you that, which, you know, they shouldn't. And Kyle Schwabber said, I don't give a hell about the stigma.

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