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

Hey there, podcast, pals.

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight and Billy Penn.

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Coming up, the Phillies are suddenly rolling a little bit.

After weeks of wringing our hands and spraining our wrists doing so,

the Phillies suddenly playing much better baseball after a trip through L.A.

And the first game of their four-game series against the surging Arizona Diamondbacks will

break that down. Incredible series by Kyle Schwabber in Los Angeles. And some struggling

Phillies seem to be pulling out of the funks that they were in.

Also, want to talk a little bit about the fall of the Atlanta Braves as we record this here on Friday morning.

If the season ended today, they would not be in the playoffs.

Pretty incredible.

And we'll also update you on the injury situation with the Phillies starting rotation. It looks like they might be getting some arms back soon. A six-man rotation is likely

coming at some point in the next week or two. Joining me is Liz Rocher. I'm not Justin Klu,

of course, because he normally does the Friday pod. He's still on vacation, but you're

use to the dulcet tones of Liz Rocher here on your

Fridays. And she is joining me again here on the Friday edition of the podcast. I'll follow her on

Twitter at Liz Rocher. Liz, the Phillies playing better ball, probably while everyone slept,

playing much better baseball here the last few nights. Yes, indeed. They have been playing so much

better. Well, I was definitely sleeping.

Even though the game on Thursday night started like a half an hour earlier, I still didn't

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