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 turn

as the Phillies of the 2022 NLJ.

From W.HYY and Billy Penn, it is hitting season.

And after two games of disappointment in the desert, the Phillies win, game five of the National League Championship Series,

and send this NLCS to Philadelphia with the Phillies just one win away from returning to the World Series for

the second straight year. Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight and Billy Penn.

What a game in Arizona. I know everybody was tense. Everybody was stressed out heading into

game five. And all we really needed to do was just look at Zach Wheeler, who is our own Zen on the mound.

What a performance from Zach Wheeler.

We're going to talk about the offense.

We're going to talk about game six.

And we'll touch on a little bit about what happened in games three and four because I did not do any recaps of game three and four.

I know Justin and Liz did the game three recap on Friday.

None of you wanted a recap of

game four in real time, right? I knew that thing wasn't getting a single click. So we just, we were

exhausted and decided, you know what, we'll just let game four exist without us necessarily

having to podcast about it because certainly there were opinions of plenty. And I'll touch on a couple of things here in just a second because they had a direct impact on

what we saw in game five.

But the series tied to to a must-win game for both teams.

More a must-win game for the Diamondbacks then for the Phillies because going back

to Citizens Bank Park, certainly the odds would be in the

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