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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

Hittin' Season #857: Let's Bury the Braves

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 857, host John Stolnis wraps up the final two games of the Phillies series win against the Astros, including Wednesday's scheduled loss with the struggling Taijuan Walker on the mound. Also, thoughts on Aaron Nola, Nick Castellanos and a huge four-game home series against the Braves that could determine the course of the NL East in September.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Breaking ball and a call.

0:02.7

Strike three.

0:03.4

Third strikeout for Zach.

0:04.8

He's going to just watch it go.

0:07.0

A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

0:10.0

And there's a high fly ball.

0:12.6

Deep right field.

0:14.3

Harper watches it fly.

0:19.8

From W.HYY and Billy Penn, it is hit in 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, we're going to wrap up this Phillies Astros series. A Phillies series win, although the game on Wednesday did kind of leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth,

0:38.1

but two very good games against a very good Astros team,

0:41.0

as the Phillies are playing better baseball,

0:43.1

at least in games in which they don't essentially forfeit before they even start.

0:48.1

But we will talk about the series finale and the future of Taiwan Walker in the starting rotation.

0:53.7

And of course, we will look ahead to a huge Braves series.

0:57.5

The most important series of the season so far was Atlanta coming to town for a monster

1:02.8

four-game series trailing the Phillies by five games in the National League East.

1:07.7

Plus, I'll open up the Twitter mailbag and answer some mailbag questions for you here

1:11.8

on this edition of hit and season.

1:14.2

But this series against the Astros, again, I know it kind of gets lost in the shuffle of Wednesday's 10-0

1:20.8

loss.

1:21.3

I mean, how does that not stay in your mind?

1:24.1

You lose 10 to nothing and your no hit for seven innings, essentially.

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