Breaking ball and a call. 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.HY and Billy Billy Penn, it is hitting season.

Hey there, podcast, pals.

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight and Billy Penn.

You can follow me on Twitter at John Stolness.

Coming up, Philly split the first two games of their three-game series against the Red Sox.

I'll recap the first couple of games and we'll talk about the JT Rail Mutow news that came down on Tuesday. Surprising news, not good news. Obviously, the Phillies

are going to be without their star catcher for the next month, but how much will it hurt exactly?

We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Atlanta Braves and we'll talk about the trade deadline

with Leo Morgan Stern,

really good former good fight writer and now he's off doing his own thing for fan graphs and

MLB trade rumors. And so we're going to talk to him in just a couple of minutes about the top

Philly stories of the day as well as take a look around the National League a little bit as well.

So lots to get to here on this episode of hit and season. First, let's jump right into this JT, Real Muto news before we get to the two games against the Boston Red Sox.

By now, most of you who are listening to this podcast, you are Phillies fans.

So you're well aware of the fact that Dave Dombrowski says they expect Real Muto to miss about a month of this season,

which will essentially bring him back right around the

All-Star break, which is scheduled for July 15th through the 18th. He had surgery on Wednesday

to repair a torn meniscus in his knee. Now, that is certainly not as bad as it could have been.

They knew that he was going to have the surgery this week

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