How About Them Phillies?

Remem­ber when I wrote this and won­dered whether or not the Phillies would make the post­sea­son? Yeah, seems pret­ty sil­ly now. I’m head­ed to see the Phillies again tonight as they attempt to sweep the Braves, who once led the divi­sion by a healthy sev­en games. The Phillies have gone on a 12 game swing since and now lead by a whop­ping five games. The mind bog­gles at the accomplishment.

Peo­ple are talk­ing about the Padres’ col­lapse? What hap­pened to Atlanta?

What the Phillies top three pitch­ers have accom­plished is noth­ing short of remark­able. Hal­la­day has won 20 games, Cole Hamels has bounced back after a sea­son that test­ed his met­tle and Roy Oswalt has been superb since join­ing at the dead­line. Can you believe Roy Oswalt is our num­ber three? Me neither!

2 Comments

  1. They very well could. If they man­age to win the pen­nant this year they will
    even before they play a game in the World Series.

    And all the stuff I said about them when I thought they might not make the
    play­offs? Well, it still stands, mean­ing that they could actu­al­ly be better
    next year. That’s con­tin­gent on them sort­ing out the Domon­ic Brown/Jayson
    Werth sit­u­a­tion, though.

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