#1018: It's The Dodgers!

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

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Philadelphia, Sports, Sports News, Baseball, News, Phillies

4.4 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It will be the Dodgers. After sweeping the Cincinnati Reds in their Wild Card series on Wednesday, the Phillies now know who their opponent will be in the NLDS, the defending champs, who will take on the Phils beginning Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park. John Stolnis of the Good Phight takes a look at the upcoming series between two of baseball's heavyweights, including Game 1 starter Shohei Ohtani's first-ever postseason appearance as a pitcher. How do the two teams match up? Also, some thoughts on the Phils' Wednesday night intrasquad game and a recap of the other three wild card series, all of which are going the full three games!

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0:00.0	Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here. Swam on. Get it. Cross. And the Phillies are going to lead it. Harper, the swing of his life. The O2 pit, swing and a miss. Stuck him out. From W. H.Y. It is hitting season. Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.
0:23.1	You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, it's going to be the Dodgers.
0:30.2	We know that now after the Dodgers won game two of their wildcard series against the Reds,
0:35.2	sweeping the fraud Cincinnati Reds in Los Angeles, two games to none, the only wildcard series against the Reds, sweeping the fraud Cincinnati Reds in Los Angeles,
0:39.4	two games to none, the only wildcard series to end in a sweep.
0:43.0	And the Phillies now know it will indeed be the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night for game one of the National League Division series.
0:51.7	Two Titans will be going at it this weekend with a trip to the
0:55.5	National League Championship Series on the line. We'll also give you the status of all the other
1:01.6	wildcard series, and we'll talk about the Phillies Intras Squad game that played on Wednesday night.
1:06.0	Man, did that look like a whole lot of fun, and I think it was a really good exercise for the players,
1:11.1	having that stadium packed with fans.
1:13.6	And then, you know, hey, we'll dip into a little bit of roster stuff and stuff that Dave
1:18.2	Dombrowski said ahead of the Intras Squad game on Wednesday.
1:22.4	So lots to get to here on this edition of hit and season.
1:26.2	But we do know that it will be the Dodgers coming to
1:30.4	Citizens Bank Park on Saturday night in a highly anticipated series. This will be the marquee
1:36.4	matchup of all of the divisional series, no doubt about it. I think the consensus is that the
1:42.9	winner of this series will be the one that represents the National League in the World Series and probably the favorites to win the World Series.
1:49.8	So it would be great if this was an NLCS where you could get a best of four and seven game series.
1:57.2	But instead it's going to be like one of those old school National League Championship series, a best of five that the Phillies played with the Dodgers back in, you know,
2:05.7	these two teams have a long playoff history.
2:07.9	Back in 1977 and 78, the Dodgers broke the Phillies hearts two straight years.
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