Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.

Swam on, bit cross, and the Phillies are going to lead it.

Harper, the swing of his life.

The O-2 pit, swing and a miss, struck him out.

From W.HY, this is Hitton, a Philadelphia Phillies podcast. My name is Justin Clue, and I write for baseball prospectus. With me is Liz Rocher, the editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal. Hello, Liz. Hello, Justin. Happy Friday to you, sir. Happy Friday, and nothing not to be happy about, really, with regards to the Phillies.

Just a real clean week.

It's a real satisfying week.

The kind of week you feel like just isn't going to happen, especially after the recent

events involving the Phillies and New York Mets.

Going to get into the game four last night against the Mets, Jesus Lazzardo's start, the Phillies and New York Mets. Going to get into the game four last night against the Mets.

Jesus Lazzardo's start, the Phillies comeback, the four-game sweep completion.

Get into all that in a second.

But I just felt like we should set some context here, Liz, for what this really was and how good this really felt to complete a four-game sweep of the New York Mets.

Liz, when the sun rose on June 13th, the New York metropolitans were in first place with baseball's

best record at 45 and 25. Do you remember this? I do remember this. I barely remember this. I barely recall this. There has been so, I feel, much of this this year where it's just everyone's talking about. These teams, they're super hot. They look like the team to beat. And then two weeks later, well, now it's this other team. This other bunch of guys we thought were dead. And everybody's just been flipping around a lot and this was just

you know this was the Mets turn back in June they looked like the Mets who were promised to not just

their own fans but to anybody rooted with rooting interests in the NL East they seemed like the

Mets were going to be a problem and they were being won 20 games over 500 by mid-June by the time

they went to sleep on June 29th,

they'd lost 13 of the last 16 and dropped to one and a half games back in the National League

East. Then they'd win 14 of their next 20. Then they'd lose 14 of their next 16. We can move

through the Mets season arbitrarily selected chunk of games after arbitrarily selected

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