Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.

Swam on, hit it, crossed, and the Phillies are going to lead it.

Harper, the swing of his life.

The O2 pit, swing and a miss, struck him out.

From W.HY, Y, it is hitting season.

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, we're going to recap the first two games of this series between the Phillies and the Red Sox up in Boston at Fenway Park. I'm going to let Justin and Liz take you through the rubber game that's going to be played on Thursday afternoon against

Rangers Suarez, and they'll be able to give you all the details about that. But as I'm recording

this here, very late in the evening on Wednesday night, the Phillies split the first two games

of their series against the Red Sox, losing 3 to 1 on Wednesday and winning 2 to 1 on Tuesday.

So the bats have gone quiet this week.

But we'll talk about the series.

We'll talk about some interesting decisions by Don Mattingly.

We'll talk about Kyle Schwerber's Hot Street, Justin Crawford playing pretty well.

Good outings from Zach Wheeler and Andrew Painter.

And coming up in just a few minutes, I'm also going to

talk with Tim Brown, fantastic baseball writer, and he's the author of a brand new book,

biography about Nolan Ryan called Nolan, the singular life of an American original. For those of

us who watched baseball, grew up on baseball in the late 1980s and 1990s. We caught the tail end of Nolan Ryan's career, but he had some memorable moments against the Phillies. So we're going to talk to Tim about all that stuff. Coming up on this edition of hit and season. All right, let's talk about this series against the Red Sox. First two games, Phillies drop the second game of the series, three to one on Wednesday night.

Let's start off with the good news, okay?

Let's start off with some happy thoughts.

Let's start off with Andrew Painter, who had a nice bounceback outing following some recent,

some recent struggles on the mound.

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