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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

#966: The Phillies Are MLB's Best Team on Memorial Day

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 966 of Hittin' Season, John Stolnis of The Good Phight, Liz Roscher, Editor of SABR's Baseball Research Journal and Baseball Prospectus' Justin Klugh gather together to discuss the many high points of the Phillies' 6-1 road trip. How much does it matter the level of competition wasn't great? Also, they preview this week's series against the Braves in Philly. Is Atlanta any good?

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0:00.0

Breaking ball and a call.

0:02.7

Strike three.

0:03.4

Third strikeout for Zach.

0:04.8

He's going to just watch it go.

0:07.0

A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

0:10.0

And there's a high fly ball.

0:12.6

Deep right field.

0:14.3

Huffer watches it fly.

0:20.0

From W. HYY, It is Hittin season.

0:23.7

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

0:26.8

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

0:29.4

And coming up, Phillies finish off a very successful road trip, almost pulled off the road trip of a century.

0:36.8

Or since the 60s, I guess.

0:38.7

So it's a quarter, half a century or whatever.

0:40.6

But the Phillies go six in one on a seven-game road trip through Colorado and Sacramento.

0:48.4

It's funny, you know, the A's.

0:49.9

They don't even have a city name in front of them right now.

0:51.9

They're just called at the athletics, which is bizarre, playing in a minor league stadium the way they did this weekend.

0:57.1

But the Phillies take two out of three from the A's and sit atop the National League East by a game and a half with a 34 and 19 record, the best record in Major League Baseball.

1:06.6

So joining me to talk about the weekend against the A's.

1:09.7

And now that we've hit Memorial Day, we're recording this on Memorial Day evening.

1:13.9

This is an official kind of like watermark of every baseball season.

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