It's not a Marathon, it's a Sprint: Phillies September Dash

by **Gimpy** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 16:00:00

I have fond memories of playing the Trolley Dodgers in the NLCS. I’d be okay with seeing it again this year.

by **MoBettle** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 16:28:13

Yes issue is they’re very close to 5 and 8 which are much tougher.

by **CFP** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 16:47:49

Bill McNeal wrote:

Is it me or is that not a terrible looking draw for the Phillies? I haven't watched much of the Cubs this year but if we can get past them in a 3 game series we'd get the winner of ATl/STL and we are 5-5 against ATL so got a shot there. Not going to bet the house on it, but it's doesn't seem hopeless.

The reason to have hope is clear. You have two of the best starting pitchers in baseball in a short series.

by **BigEd76** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 18:07:27

MoBettle wrote:Yes issue is they’re very close to 5 and 8 which are much tougher.

"outside looking in" is close too

by **BigEd76** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 18:59:24

48 cutouts were hit by Phillies home run balls at Citizens Bank Park this season. To apologize to (and thank) those fans, the players who hit the homers signed their cutouts to be returned to them! These fans will also get tickets to a 2021 game & a package of promotional items.

by **Gimpy** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 20:41:04

A Dodgers writer for the Athletic wrote an article ranking six potential first round opponents from teams she'd least want the Dodgers to face to the teams she'd most want them to face. Phillies were ranked as the team she’d most want them facing.

Yes, please

Philadelphia Phillies (27-26, seventh in NL)

Philadelphia’s bullpen has a 7.15 ERA. Only two teams in MLB history have finished the season with bullpen ERAs higher than seven: the 1930 Phillies (8.01) and the 1936 St. Louis Browns (7.01). The club’s August attempt to salvage its bullpen by trading Boston’s for theirs hasn’t worked. The Phillies’ two best hitters, Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto, are banged-up. But Philadelphia’s offense really doesn’t matter because the Dodgers would eat its bullpen alive.

If I’m a Dodgers fan, I’m rooting for this Phillies team to somehow limp into the eighth spot on sheer inertia alone. Purple and powder blue blood would be in the water.

by 1 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 20:42:20

The club’s August attempt to salvage its bullpen by trading Boston’s for theirs hasn’t worked.

What

by **ek20** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 20:42:42

Sounds about right

by **Gimpy** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 20:57:57

Trading Boston’s bullpen for our bullpen. So bringing in theirs to replace ours. It makes sense if you think about it hard enough, but it’s worded in a whacked out way.

by **ReadingPhilly** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 21:00:13

“They traded their’s for Boston’s” would be the proper way to write it.

by 1 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 21:04:55

ReadingPhilly wrote:“They traded their’s for Boston’s” would be the proper way to write it.

No it wouldn’t

by **Gimpy** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 21:22:27

“They traded’ve theres four Boston’s” is how I would do it

by **MoBettle** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 21:26:10

Rooting for the dodgers to choke again just based on that nonsense write up

by **Bucky** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 22:13:16

'we performed a feces swap with boston'

by **Wheels Tupay** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 22:24:54

I way be way off but I think we are a tough matchup for LA in a best of 3. Two good starts from Nola and Wheeler and the usually choke job from playoff kershaw.

by **rolex** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 22:28:07

Have to get into the POs first and, with all of these injuries, it doesn’t look promising.

by **Monkeyboy** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 23:34:29

Gimpy wrote:A Dodgers writer for the Athletic wrote an article ranking six potential first round opponents from teams she'd least want the Dodgers to face to the teams she'd most want them to face. Phillies were ranked as the team she’d most want them facing.

Yes, please

Philadelphia Phillies (27-26, seventh in NL)

Philadelphia’s bullpen has a 7.15 ERA. Only two teams in MLB history have finished the season with bullpen ERAs higher than seven: the 1930 Phillies (8.01) and the 1936 St. Louis Browns (7.01). The club’s August attempt to salvage its bullpen by trading Boston’s for theirs hasn’t worked. The Phillies’ two best hitters, Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto, are banged-up. But Philadelphia’s offense really doesn’t matter because the Dodgers would eat its bullpen alive.

If I’m a Dodgers fan, I’m rooting for this Phillies team to somehow limp into the eighth spot on sheer inertia alone. Purple and powder blue blood would be in the water.

well now I want to face the dodgers. It's on.

by **Titlehungry** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 00:53:15

CFP wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:

Is it me or is that not a terrible looking draw for the Phillies? I haven't watched much of the Cubs this year but if we can get past them in a 3 game series we'd get the winner of ATl/STL and we are 5-5 against ATL so got a shot there. Not going to bet the house on it, but it's doesn't seem hopeless.

The reason to have hope is clear. You have two of the best starting pitchers in baseball in a short series.

Dodgers having to face the Padres here in Round 2 would be great too

by **BigEd76** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 21:31:55

welp, looks like another year without a winning record

by **CalvinBall** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 21:39:30

Can you even get a whole new bullpen in the off-season?

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