Hittin' Season #965: The Phillies are Taking Care of Business Against Bad Teams

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

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

4.7 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Phillies absolutely steamrolled the lousy Pirates and Rockies, and now head to West Sacramento to play a struggling Athletics team. Justin Klugh and Liz Roscher break it down, and then historian Matt Albertson fill us in on the last Phillies-A's Philadelphia City Series played before the Athletics moved in 1955.

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0:00.0	Breaking ball and a cold. Strike three. Third strike out 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. Hopper watches it fly.
0:20.3	From W.HYY, this is Hittin season of Philadelphia Phillies podcast.
0:25.8	My name is Justin Clue, and I write for baseball prospectus.
0:29.1	With me is Liz Rocher, the editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal.
0:33.1	Hello, Liz.
0:34.1	Hello, Justin.
0:35.8	Well, Phillies finished off a four-game sweep of those terrible, terrible Colorado Rockies
0:41.7	Thursday afternoon.
0:43.3	They've now won seven games in a row, and at 32 and 18, the Phillies have the best record
0:49.2	in the National League going into Memorial Day weekend.
0:52.6	Liz, what do you want to complain about first?
0:57.5	It's going to be that the Detroit Tigers somehow had the better record than the Phillies right now.
1:02.1	What is up with that?
1:04.6	Because I just, I'm like 32.
1:06.5	They should be at the top, right?
1:09.3	I mean, for as much bashing of the central divisions we did in all of our predictions.
1:15.6	And when I say our, I mean the greater baseball world.
1:21.0	And you're not crazy for picking the tigers.
1:23.9	I pick the tigers to win that division.
1:25.6	But the degree to which they are pulling ahead of that division, but the degree to which they are
1:28.3	pulling ahead of that division, you know, albeit not even quite Memorial Day, but still,
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