Breaking ball and a cold. Strike three. Third strike out 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.HY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hidden Season of Philadelphia, Philly's podcast. We're now in the second half officially. I'm Justin Clue. I play. I don't. I write for baseball prospectus. I don't play baseball for anybody. With me is Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports.

I also don't play baseball for anyone.

Yeah, just to clear that up.

We're not out there, you know, crushing bombs every night and then sliding into a podcast studio to look for this.

Yeah, just that's not our way.

I know that probably, I guess I get surprised as many of you.

Yeah.

It's, it's, I just don't want that out there.

Liz, are we even going to recognize the Phillies when we see them again?

It's been 48 hours since the All-Star game that was mostly Phillies, as they and Shohei Otani bravely fought to stave off the American League but got no other help from their teammates on the National League All-Star team and lost five to three.

Will we recognize the Phillies when we see them again finally tonight in Pittsburgh as they face the Pirates at 640?

No, I'm expecting caveman beards, long, long, long hair, just generally unkempt, dirty, like they just crawled out of a cave.

That's what I'm thinking.

They should all come out with Brandon Marsh Beards.

That would be, what a delight.

That would be fun.

Well, in the meantime, as we didn't have the Phillies in the present, we got to think about the Phillies in the future with the 2025 schedule released.

Liz, this is always a very exciting day for you.

You are always text bombing me on schedule release day.

Just thinking about the many, many different parts of a calendar.

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