Castellano has it and the Phillies have the National League Championship that

have beaten the Padres four to three and they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the

2022 and L-Chance.

From W.HYY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hittin Season, a Philadelphia Phillies podcast.

My name is Justin Clue.

My two co-hosts will not be joining us.

John Stolmiss has been recruited by a shadow organization of 80s baseball nerds, and Liz Rocher has been carried off by a large bird. We wish her well in her future endeavors. But for now, we have a couple of guests we're going to talk to today. We're going to talk a little bit about Bryson Stott. We're going to talk a little bit about the Miami Marlins. But first, we got to talk about this series with the Tampa Bay Rays.

Ladies and gentlemen, your Philadelphia Phillies have swept the best team in the American

League in their own stadium. I wouldn't call this the expected outcome from this series.

I certainly didn't think they would go into Tampa and take all three

games. I thought it was on the table that they could get swept, that they might lose the series,

or that they could even win two out of three. This is a team that went into L.A. and beat a tough

team. They went into Arizona and beat a tough team. They went into Houston and beat a tough

team. Winning series in all three of those cities, they also lost a series to the Nationals at

home very recently, a team they really should have beaten. And, you know, they have also been

defined by games that were winnable, but they let slip through their fingers. This team has

struggled getting their offense aligned and fully calibrated and weaponized. They initially

were struggling with their starting pitching, but that has really become a strength of this

Philly's team. Their bullpen has flibbed and flubbed a bit, but also emerged as a strength for this

team. And you saw almost all of that on display in this series. The offense wasn't exactly

explosive, but they did provide enough to win all three games, and the pitching really did

their job as well. And, you know, we already talked about games one and two earlier this week. We already talked about Aaronola's great performance. We

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