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. HYY and Billy Penn, it is hitting season. Hey there, podcast pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight and Billy Penn. You can follow me on X at John Stolness. Coming up is the Philly slump over? Well, man, we're all feeling pretty good after a single win against the Seattle Mariners,

but a lot of stuff happened in the game on Sunday that hopefully portends for better things here as the Phillies get ready to take on the Dodgers in a huge three-game series out in L.A.

starting here on Monday night.

We are recording this at around 8 o'clock Eastern time. So a couple hours before our first pitch.

Justin is off still on vacation. Joining me is the great Liz Rocher from Yahoo Sports.

Follow her on X at Liz Rocher. We're going to talk about this Phil's team that really got a win on

Sunday, Liz, that was very much needed. How are you? I'm doing great, much better since the Phillies won

and lifted the dark cloud over our home. Yeah. I can't imagine you and I getting on the

microphone tonight if they'd gotten swept in Seattle. You know, that would have just been.

And I was, I was thinking back to something that you said on the podcast, we recorded on Friday, episode 848, like, what if they lost the first six games, but then won four in a

row against the diamondbacks, you know, and I was like, I thought, well, I guess I could

swallow that, but, you know, that'd be a 10 game losing streak. I mean, I can't, I couldn't imagine if they'd lost that game on Sunday.

You know, that would have just been after Zach Wheeler does what he did and, and saved

it really didn't save the season, really, but saved the vibes for sure and put together,

I think, the most important start of the season for the Phillies.

They, they had to win

that game on Sunday. And thankfully, Zach Wheeler basically kind of kept them floating along.

It's kind of like if you've got a little kid and you're swimming in the pool and they're

floating behind you on like a little floaty and you're just kind of pulling them, you know, behind.

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