Castellano, yes, and the Phillies have the National League Championship.

They have beaten the Padres, four to three, and they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the 2022 NLJ.

From W.HY and Billy Penn.com, 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.

And coming up, we are going to talk about a month of hitting season.

We're going to recap one of the greatest months of Philly's baseball we have

ever seen in this city. Heroes galore, moments to remember will run down kind of a checklist

or, you know, we'll go through the timeline of the month of August and just go through some of the

memories that this team gave us here in what was a magical month of August.

We'll get into some concerns about the bullpen a little bit, obviously, disappointing game on Wednesday, as the bullpen couldn't finish off what was a truly dramatic moment

with Bryce Harper hitting his 300th home run.

But we're going to talk about that.

We'll talk about some starting rotation questions moving forward, and I'm going to talk with Russell Carlton, who is the author of a new book called The New

Ball Game, the Not So Hidden Forces shaping modern baseball. Russell does a great job writing

about baseball, and this is a terrific book that we're going to talk to him about coming up

here in the next few minutes here on hitting season. All right, let's jump into it.

And again, the month of August, a miracle month, really.

From start to finish, the narratives, the storylines, the heroes, the moments.

So many games played at Citizens Bank Park, so many home games in which the Phillies rose to

the occasion.

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