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High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast

The High Hopes Phillies Podcast: Biggest Series in 6 Years

High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast

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Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jack Fritz and James Seltzer are here to give their takeaways from the Yanks series and preview the Nats series. What do they make of Zach Eflin, the stopper, Jake Arrieta's June Swoon and Hector Neris possibly being back? They also preview the biggest series in 6 years and talk about Jayson Werth's retirement.  See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Yo, it is another episode of the High Host Podcast, the only Phillies podcast, some say,

0:09.3

as this Phillies team man, James Selter, they lose, they lose two or three to the Yanks, they salvage

0:15.5

last night against the Yankees B squad. Mostly it was a, it was a, wow, that team was much better than our team.

0:23.8

And but still, there was 40 plus thousand in the house for every single game.

0:28.5

The Juice was back.

0:29.7

It felt like Phillies fans by game three were like, all right, we're not gonna just let the Yankees take over our ballpark.

0:35.2

We're gonna fight back a little bit. James, an exciting first couple of days of

0:39.6

baseball. I know it wasn't great from the win-loss column, but how did it feel seeing CBP Folligan?

0:44.7

Fillings are back, Jack.

0:47.1

Well, feelings are back.

0:48.3

And also, any time you got Cy Eflin on the hill, you got a chance to go out and win the game.

0:54.0

Let's talk about Zach Ephlin because I think he's good and I just think that if you

1:00.6

were going to he's a guy where I think he's consistently hard to square up for however many innings he's out there, especially when he's spotting his fastball to both sides of the plate.

1:11.0

And he's legitimately touching 96 now which I never thought

1:14.2

would be possible from Zach Eflin. When he is spotting those, spotting both sides

1:19.7

of the play with his fastball his slider was was really sharp last night most of the

1:24.0

pitching staff has adopted the spiked curveball or spike slider probably from

1:28.6

from Jake Arietta that he's probably taught them that. It creates much more spin.

1:33.5

And it feels like, or it seems like Eflin

1:35.3

may be starting to spike his pitches.

1:36.7

That's why his sliders seem to have way more run to it.

1:39.0

And his change up last night was even really good.

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