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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

Hittin' Season #682: Just How Close are the Phillies and Braves? & Reliving a Phillies Classic 20 Years Later

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 682 of Hittin' Season, host John Stolnis chats with SB Nation's Kris Willis from the Atlanta Braves site Battery Power to chat about the Braves' fast start to the 2023 season, his take on the gap between the Phils and Braves, and whether or not it'll be the Phils, Marlins, Reds or Giants that end up making the postseason. Also, trying to figure out what happened to Bryce Harper's power stroke, and reliving a classic Phillies game from 2003, "The Todd Pratt Game."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Castellano, yes, and the Phillies have the National League Championship that have beaten the Padres, 4 to 3,

0:10.8

and they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the 2022 NLG.

0:19.4

Hey there, podcast, pals, from WHY and B Penn.com. It is hitting season. I'm your host,

0:25.8

John Stolness, from The Good Fight. You can follow me on Twitter at John Stolness. And coming up,

0:30.1

we're going to talk about this Philly's Brave series. We only have one game to talk about right now

0:34.0

after the game on Wednesday night got rained out. They'll play one more on Thursday

0:38.1

afternoon. But joining me to talk about the Braves and the National League East and the rest of the

0:42.6

National League a little bit. And to give us his perspective on what he has seen from the Philly

0:46.8

so far this year is Chris Willis, good buddy of the podcast. He's from the SB Nation Bravesite

0:52.4

battery power. He's going to join me to talk about all that.

0:55.0

Plus, Bryce Harper's power outage. What's going on there? And I'll take a look back at one of my

1:01.0

favorite Phillies games of all time 20 years later. Just a phenomenal game from 2003 that I wrote

1:07.1

about for The Good Fight this week. All that coming up here on this edition of hit and season.

1:11.7

But real quick, let's talk about this Phil's Brave series.

1:14.8

And like I said, not a lot to talk about as the Phillies welcomed Atlanta to Philadelphia

1:19.2

for this three-game series, the game on Wednesday night got rained out.

1:23.6

Really kind of unfair to the people who were in attendance, they just kept saying it'll be

1:29.4

715, it was supposed to be 640, and then from like 715 until like the 9 o'clock hour, they just

1:35.3

didn't give any updates at all. And you had people sit in the stadium wondering what's going on,

1:39.6

what's happening with the game? And so I don't know if we'll ever get a real explanation as

1:43.7

to the delay in the decision making or at the very least, if I don't know if we'll ever get a real explanation as to the delay

1:44.5

in the decision making or at the very least if you don't know whether or not you're going to get

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