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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

#958: The Phillies Bats Awaken!

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 958 of Hittin' Season, host John Stolnis of The Good Phight recaps the first two games of the Phillies series in Tampa, another series win for the boys! The Good Phight's Ethan Witte stops by to talk Kyle Schwarber extension, Zack Wheeler or Jesus Luzardo as the Phils' best Cy Young candidate, and whether Iron Pig stud Otto Kemp has a future in Philadelphia. Also, is Taijuan Walker going to be a stud reliever now?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Breaking ball and a call. Strike three. Third strikeout for Zach. He's going to just watch it go. A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

0:10.0

And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Huffer watches it fly.

0:19.6

From W.HYY, It is Hittin season.

0:23.6

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.

0:26.6

You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness.

0:30.3

Coming up, Phillies win another series.

0:32.0

Four series wins in a row, and they're not even done this series against the race,

0:36.2

as we record here very late on a

0:38.3

Wednesday night. Phillies won the first two games of this series against Tampa down in the

0:44.3

minor league park in Florida, Steinbrenner Field that they're playing in after Tropicana

0:48.8

Field unfortunately was destroyed in that hurricane back at the last year. But the Phillies taken the first two of this three-game series and are playing some real,

0:58.6

real good baseball, their best baseball of the season.

1:01.1

So we're going to break down these first two games.

1:02.7

We'll talk about the improved offense.

1:04.8

We'll talk about some great starting pitching performances in these first two games and

1:08.5

a surprise reliever at the end of the game on Wednesday

1:12.3

night looking dynamic. You're going to be amazed at the name if you didn't catch it already.

1:18.7

Why the Phillies rotation, the numbers all say they are the best in baseball right now and why

1:23.6

the Phillies need to resign Kyle Schwabber. Also, I'm going to be joined by the Supreme Allied Commander of thegoodfight.com,

1:31.1

Ethan Whitty.

1:32.3

He's going to join us to talk all things fills, and we'll get a little prospect talk.

1:35.7

Just a little dab of prospect talking at the end of our conversation with Ethan coming up here on this edition.

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