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

Swam on, bit cross, and the Phillies are going to lead it.

Hardborough, the swing of his life.

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

From W.HY, why welcome to your Friday edition of Hittin Season, a Philadelphia Phillies podcast.

I'm Justin Clue. I write for baseball prospectus. I'm also the author of Summer of the Cheap Wieners, what the 1941 Phillies were doing while Joe DiMaggio was making history available through major booksellers now.

With me is Liz Rocher, the editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal.

Hello, Liz.

Hello, Justin.

Feels like a...

Start our new series?

Yeah, it feels like a quiet start to the Friday that the Phillies having the off day on Thursday.

And the Phillies were doing so well coming into the Cincinnati series 15 and 4 in the

Dominantly era before these three games were played. Liz, word is that the Phillies lost this

series dropping the last two games to the Reds due to a pair of issues that have always been

issues and probably always will be. Your thoughts.

Nothing can be fixed.

Everything is forever.

I mean, it's certainly how these problems feel when you're circling back to talk about things like teams not hitting lefties and people named Aaron Nola not making the best start in the world.

They also faced some issues that popped out of nowhere.

Sure would be a real good time to abruptly lose your best hitter, wouldn't it, Liz?

Kyle Schwabber.

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