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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

Hittin' Season #854: Harper Should Have Hit

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

Sports, News, Phillies, Philadelphia, Baseball, Sports News

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 854 of Hittin' Season, hosts John Stolnis of The Good Phight and Justin Klugh of Baseball Prospectus recap the Phillies weekend series against the Nationals, the feel-good first three games followed by Rob Thomson's bewildering decision not to pinch hit Bryce Harper in the bottom of the 9th on Sunday. Also, parity is rampant in MLB this year. Is that good news or bad news for the Phils?

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0:00.0

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.

0:10.0

And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Huffer watches it fly.

0:19.9

From W. H.Y.Y and Billy Penn, it is hit in season.

0:24.4

Hey there, podcast, pals.

0:25.6

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.

0:27.5

And Billy Penn, you can follow me on X at John Stolness.

0:30.1

Coming up, Phillies take three out of four from the Washington Nationals over the weekend.

0:33.6

A feel-good series, but a little bit of what happened on Sunday afternoon

0:37.7

leaving a bad taste in some folks' mouths. And Philly's maybe missed an opportunity to head

0:42.3

out to Atlanta on a real, real humdinger of a game on Sunday. But we'll talk about that.

0:47.0

Yes, I used humdinger in a sentence in the year 2024. That's just, that's how this is

0:51.4

going to go tonight. We're going to talk about some things John Middleton said over the weekend that I thought were pretty

0:55.7

interesting.

0:56.4

And the parody throughout baseball is really something else right now.

0:59.9

We'll go over some of the numbers in just a few minutes.

1:02.3

Joining me, as we do all the time on this Sunday, Monday night podcast, whenever it is we

1:06.1

decide to do it.

1:06.8

Justin Clue from baseball prospectus, the Innning podcast, absolutely hammered podcast. Follow him on Twitter

1:12.5

at Justin underscore Klu. You can find

1:14.6

all that other stuff over at our hit in season

1:16.8

Patreon, which is patreon.com slash

1:19.0

hitting season. Justin, what's up, buddy?

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