Breaking ball and a call. Strike three. Third strikeout for Zach. He's going to just watch it go. A grand

slam for Bryson Stott. And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Huffer watches it fly.

From W. H.Y.Y and Billy Penn, it is hit in 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. Coming up, the Phillies,

take two out of three from the Cardinals and St. Louis, finishing up on a very rainy Wednesday,

but the pitching staff does the job in this series.

The offense, however, continues to frustrate.

We'll talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly from this three-game series against

the Cardinals in St. Louis, and the Phillies finish up their first road trip of the season

with a winning record.

First time they've done that since 2011, taking four

out of six games, winning series against the Nationals and the Cardinals. So we'll get into all that

coming up in just a couple of minutes. I'm going to give you some thoughts on the Mike Trout trade

talk or the trying to convince Mike Trout to get out of L.A. and all that stuff. I wrote a piece

about that for the good fight this week.

I'll talk about that coming up in just a few minutes as well.

We're also going to talk about pitcher injuries, the rash of Tommy John surgery's elbow problems

among some major league stars. Michael Bauman, writer for the Fangraphs. You know him, of course,

Big Phillies fan and a terrific writer about baseball for fan graphs.

He's going to join us to talk about all that, and he'll give us his thoughts on the start to the Phillies season.

And we'll do all that coming up here on this edition of Hitting Season.

Let's jump right in.

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