Breaking ball and a call. 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. H.Y. Y and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hittin Season of Philadelphia

Philly's podcast.

My name is Justin Klu, and I write for baseball prospectus.

With me is Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports.

Hello, Liz.

Greetings, Justin.

And a happy birthday to you as well.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

My birthday was yesterday, Thursday, and I had a lovely time.

The Phillies didn't play and could not ruin it for me.

I was going to say, as a special gift to you, we got the Phillies to not play a game

and therefore not letting the happiness of your birthday be dictated by the outcome of a game played by a team that's been 500 since June 20, oh, since June 8th, since London.

They have played 500 balls since they've been in London 19 and 19, something we all found out about this week after suspecting it for a long time.

But yes, this team can go 500 the rest of the way.

We all knew that and still have a perfectly good shot at the playoffs.

Well, they've started doing that.

And I got to tell you, it's not put people at ease the way everyone thought this is going to be a cool, chill time after the Phillies jumped so far out ahead.

And they still are. I think they're like nine and a half games up on the Braves still after they didn't play yesterday.

And what happened to the Braves yesterday, which we're going to talk about in a second.

But yeah, just I think it was a favor to you that the Phillies did not play.

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