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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

The Kids Are Alright! Phillies Rookies Save The Day!

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

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

4.4730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Phillies win their first series of the season thanks to the contributions of their two prized rookies, Justin Crawford and Andrew Painter. On this edition of Hittin' Season, host John Stolnis of The Good Phight recaps the series against the Washington Nationals and how the kids saved the Phils from a nightmarish result against one of baseball's worst teams. Also, Rob Friedman, a.k.a., the creator of Pitching Ninja, stops by to talk about his new book "Unhittable," and discuss who his favorite Phillies pitchers to watch are.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

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

0:09.4

Harper, the swing of his life.

0:12.3

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

0:16.4

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

0:20.1

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolmus from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, the Phillies win a series against the Washington Nationals. They didn't play great baseball for most of the beginning part of this week, but finish off the series against the Nationals in dramatic fashion. And the kids are all right, everybody.

0:39.2

Two rookies make a huge impact in the Phillies' first series win of the season. We'll talk about

0:44.9

all that. I've got an interview coming up with Rob Friedman. You may know him better if you're an online

0:50.0

baseball fan at all as pitching ninja on the social

0:56.5

media's he's got a new book out called unhittable how technology mavericks and innovators

1:01.8

engineered baseball's new era of pitching dominance we're going to talk to him about the state

1:06.1

of pitching in major league baseball and get his thoughts on which which Phillies pitchers have the best stuff.

1:12.2

And then we will preview the Phillies' upcoming West Coast road trip.

1:16.2

All that ahead here on this edition of Hitt and Season.

1:19.2

Just a reminder, everyone to please, as we get this season rolling, tell your family and friends

1:24.5

about the Hitt and Season podcast.

1:26.7

We're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

1:28.6

wherever it is, you can find your podcasts. That is where we are. So just send them on their

1:33.7

favorite podcasting app. Tell them to do a search for Phillies. And you'll see hit in season right there.

1:39.2

And of course, you can catch our Roundtable episode that we recorded on Sunday night with myself

1:43.9

and Justin and Liz over at

1:45.7

the W-H-Y-Y YouTube channel. Just subscribe over there and you can catch all of our roundtable

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