Stairs, Rips 1 into the night, deep into right, way out of here.

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

Hardborough, the swing of his life!

The O2 pit, swing and a miss, struck him out.

From W. HYY, this is your Friday edition of Hitting Season, of Philadelphia,

Billy's podcast. It's also your playoff edition of Hitting season. My name is Justin Clue.

I write for baseball prospectus. And yeah, we got another NLDS getting underway in Philadelphia.

Finally, the Phillies have waited patiently with their byweek, playing an intra-squad game.

We're going to talk a little bit about later. But yeah, they've gotten to watch as four

different wild card series have now reached their end, and the National League and

American League Division Series can now begin.

So here's how things are going as the Phillies begin their postseason run on Saturday,

October 4th at 638 p.m. at Citizens Bank Park.

The playoff field is down from 12 to 8 as the Reds, Guardians, Padres, and Red Sox are all

heading home, unable to get out of the divisional round, or the Wild Card round. The Reds weren't

ever supposed to be there, stepping into the Mets spot after the Mets, after the Mets, uh, Mets

did down the drain yet again. Cincinnati had likened their presence to play off cockroaches, whose strength was that they

couldn't be killed.

I honestly misheard that as rats, so I've been on a bunch of other shows, laughing at them

calling themselves rats and pointing out how you can kill rats.

You know, that's kind of a silly thing to say.

And yeah, I mean, I know cockroaches are famously harder to kill, but also, you know, that's kind of a silly thing to say. And yeah, I mean, I know cockroaches are

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