#1015: 8 Home Runs and the Wild Card Bye

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Phillies hit a franchise record 8 home runs in Wednesday night's 11-1 win over the Marlins, clinching the No. 2 seed and a bye past the wild card round of the National League playoffs! On Episode 1015 of Hittin' Season, powered by WHYY, John Stolnis of The Good Phight recaps a marvelous night at the ballpark. Also, Tuesday night's loss continued a troubling trend by the bullpen, the latest on MLB's crazy playoff races, and some insane stats of the week!

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0:00.0	Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.
0:05.6	Swam on.
0:06.2	Get it crossed.
0:07.5	And the Phillies are going to lead it.
0:09.4	Harper, the swing of his life.
0:12.3	The O2 pit, swing and a miss.
0:14.8	Stuck him out.
0:16.5	From W.HY, Y, it is hitting season.
0:20.1	Hey there, podcast, pals.
0:21.4	I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.
0:23.2	You can follow me on Blue Sky and X at John Stolness.
0:26.7	Coming up, Philly's officially clinched the number two seed in the National League
0:31.1	with their 11-1 history-making win over the Marlins on Wednesday night.
0:36.1	Now, it's not history-making because they clinched the number two seed.
0:39.6	No, setting a new franchise record for home runs in a game.
0:43.2	We're going to talk about this historic game on Wednesday night
0:46.1	and what it means for their playoff picture.
0:48.3	But we're also going to talk a little Jesus Lazzardo.
0:50.8	We'll talk about the Tuesday night game that was not a lot of fun and some concerns about the bullpen that I have as we enter October.
0:58.4	We'll go over some numbers.
0:59.5	I got a hot take on the NLDS roster that will take shape over the course of the next week or two.
1:06.6	We'll get into a couple of mailbag questions.
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