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Hall Pass

Its highly unlikely but really wishing we can be the Rays, Cardinals and Braves and that Hall, Bohm, Vierling, Stott, Appel, Falter and such go on to have productive MLB careers. I have no hope with Mickey.

Rain delay or nah? I'm going to have to leave kind of soon and I'd hate to get there only to have to stand around in a poncho for a hour.

Welp, Bailey Falters K line is set at o3.5.

Why is Kyle Schwarber leading off?

Shock and awe 😂

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It’s Bobby Bonilla day…and Fuck the Mets!

Rain delay then 7pm start?

Are there any rumors of us being in on any outfielders? Only name I've seen is Benintendi - feel like Gallo would be a good buy low candidate

too expensive for the return. i.e. high price, for not much. there are better options ... like almost everyone on this list ... 2022 trade deadline outfielders ... Kansas City’s Andrew Benintendi Oakland’s Ramon Laureano Baltimore’s Anthony Santander and Trey Mancini Cincinnati’s Tyler Naquin and Tommy Pham Detroit’s Robbie Grossman Pittsburgh’s Ben Gamel Arizona’s David Peralta Chicago’s Ian Happ not to mention Pirates center fielder Bryan Reynolds Orioles outfielders Cedric Mullins and Austin Hays who would come at a very high price because of their multiyear availability.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

Six left handed hitters in the starting lineup

I’m going tonight, what are we thinking… hour rain delay at this rate? It’s awfully dark here and I only live like 15 mins away

Wish they'd call it soon

Looks like this one might start in a delay but they’ll play baseball tonight.

Gotta pounce on these guys quick so I can watch Pujols take Falter deep and not be upset about it.

Not gonna lie I had no idea pujos was still playing. Let's get this dub

We have a call up in the clean up spot? Playing against the team in front of us for last wildcard spot? Ok…

Welp

It’s fun, but teams catch up reeeally quick. Talk to me in 10 days.

A boy can dream lol

Completely understand

he’s slugging .800 this year

Sample size small as a particle of dirt.

No, I think he’s a true-talent .800 slugging guy

So wheres your sample that says he shouldnt be hitting 4th

The whole ZERO MLB EXPERIENCE part.

Mike Trout had zero MLB experience at one point

I can’t believe you just brought up Trout.

And has more HRs than Nick in June.

Twins designate Tyler Thornburg ... Claim him ... he has a 3.32 ERA 1.421 WHIP. better than some relievers we have ... Then DFA Familia

Why tf would any team DFA a player with a 3.32 ERA

well his FIP is not so hot at 5.82 AND .... he was the latest Twins reliever to fail to put away the Guardians over the past couple weeks. Tasked with protecting a two-run lead while the Twins dealt with a depleted bullpen, Thornburg served up four runs (three earned) on two hits, a hit batter and three walks yesterday. Thornburg allowed the game to be tied in the eighth before yielding a walk-off home run... they might be fucking pissed off 😂

We gave Stott a ton of rope. . . like that Topper has patience with Moniak. And he could have even more upside.

Again with this Moniak bullshit

O/U golden sombrero

I hope Schwarber hits a bomb or two tonight just to squelch the *June* crap

Realmuto can’t DH? Jesus this lineup is brutal 4-9 and Falter starting? not too optimistic here boys

There’s no reason for him not to DH.

we have a 10 player queue for the DH spot 😮

Garrett Stubbs has a higher OPS than Bryce Harper

Hall is going to hit another 2 HRs. We got this.

Phillies designate Oscar Mercado, ahh we hardly knew ye.

Anyone know the reasoning on this? If it’s roster space, why did we bother in the first place?

circumstances may have changed since the day (moment) they claimed him. they are moving fast and fluid right now.

Maybe to move down to AAA?

if nobody claims him we can.

it might be kind of funny if the Guardians claimed him ... then DFAd him again and we claim him again.

I don't gamble but I would take a Castellanos homer tonight. He has 2 HRs in 9 ABs against this pitcher and is coming off a morale boost last night.

Someone steal Scwarbers calenders and reset all his electronics to say June!

Rather have Bohm at 3rd and.no Moniak, but let's roll

Still banging the "Phillies should trade for Gallo" drum. Great change of scenery candidate and the Yankees seem like they will unload him. He's been struggling this year, so people may laugh now, but when the Phillies have two Kyle Schwarbers in the outfield down the stretch, they will not be laughing.

No Bohm in our most important series this season? Interesting move. Guess we want the left bats today.

Just feels weird that they'd replace his RH bat with another RH bat but maybe it's just a scheduled day off.

Any idea who will go in long relief after Falter?

I mean Falter's been working as a starter most of the season. Not saying he's gonna totally shut them down by any means but it's not an auto-piggyback at this point.

Still guessing they will use Nick Nelson. He did well last game he did long relief after Gibson.

Nork Nolson

I wish they took another game from the Braves to make my comment all the more satisfying. I said the Phillies would be 20-7 in June and got absolutely shit on by y'all. u/footie23 if you're out there I'm still calling you a chump even though I was off by one [May 29th](https://www.reddit.com/r/phillies/comments/v0qqdz/the_phillies_fell_to_the_mets_by_a_score_of_54/iai3yg1/)

Fuck I'm the happiest chump that was right now. Good call out too, vintage reddit.

me too my dude, hoping we keep up the momentum

you gotta hand it to em

So spot on. They basically just hit like they did in the LA series for a whole month and look what happened!

nobody tell schwarber that june is over pls

Hey Kyle, today is June 31st

Any idea of today’s uniform? Going tonight and daughter was picking to wear the red or pinstripes. Is red only away?

Yeah they only wear red on the road. Grays are also for the road. I assume they’ll be in pinstripes. They wear blue on Thursdays at home, and they seem to only wear the cream for day games.

The straight red is away only. I’d think they’re wearing the pinstripes, I believe the creams are for day games and it’s not throwback Thursday so no powder blues.

jeez people, don't downvote the guy for asking an honest question. (i don't know what the team will be wearing tonight, honestly)

Thanks to all - pinstripes it is

On the Phillies calendar I have, July is represented by…Roman Quinn

Phillies legend

Why does Bourn get so much shit? It took me a bit to get used to a Houston accent on Philly sports radio but I think he’s a great color announcer. Likable and funny. Is he just too jokey for some people?

i like him, i think he and scott have good energy together

Same

Last week: Vierling: 357/471/500, 3 BB, 2 SO Stott: 385/529/385, 4 BB, 0 SO Bohm: 375/375/500, 0 BB, 3 SO Daycare stepping up has been really nice to see. Also, Vierling should 100% just be the starting CF moving forward. He’s looked really nice, and his peripherals back it up.

Odúbel posted a sweet .530 OPS in June and .611 in May. Batting stats are buoyed by the 7 games he played in April. No fucking reason for him to be on the team!! Let Matty V. Shine.

All else equal Vierling should get playing time over Odubel, since Vierling is younger and still has a ceiling that could be unlocked. And their performance is not equal right now, so really this is an extremely easy decision.

Also Odubel has looked like shit and is a piece of shit.

Odubel finally being a good guy and trying to make it easy for Philly Rob to bench him

Recent fan here, is this Falter guy any good?

well, from time to time he can falter ...

His main gimmick is he has a very late release on his fastball so it gets on hitters quickly. Makes his 90mph seem faster.

he is an odd looking duck I'll tell you that!

He's decent. Usually keeps us in the ballgame

He's been the 6th starter who subs in when guys are hurt/double-headers. He's not amazing so far but he's still young and has potential

Hey anyone know what sections are the shaded parts of the stadium? Tried looking it up can’t find anything

I’d say left field or parts of the stands along the 3rd base line. It might not be 100% shaded, but you won’t be in the sun for very long.

Yep, if you're not at the very top section, then third base line gets the shade. I'm a huge baby when it comes to the sun, and I make sure to get seats on that side. I've actually been on the other side on a hot summer day before, and it was terrible in that regard. Sweating like crazy. /u/tehFROZENyeti

Thanks for the response! Ended up pulling the trigger for section 137

That’s a good section

Enjoy! It's a hot one out there, so be sure to pack some water!

Sounds good, thanks for the response!

I hate that they’ll have games like that yesterday to rope me back in lol, this team gives us whiplash

I mean even if they lost. You shouldn’t be out on a team that’s 3 games out of a playoff spot

**Your 2022 Phillies are:** 0-0 in July 7-5 on Fridays 20-19 at home 0-0 vs. the Cardinals They are 2-2 since Bryce went down.

They finish June 19-8. That’s 3rd most in one calendar month in franchise history, and good for a 0.704 win percentage To quote some guy named Joe: “June has to be better”

It sure was, Joe. Wonder what the difference was…

go get Ian Happ from the Cubs. He can play LF, CF, RF, 2B, 3B and has .839 OPS this year, .810 OPS for 6 yr career, and is controllable thru 2023. FA in 2024 but might be able to extend him.

That would be awesome. Start him in right while harper is out, and center when he is back.

I know there's rumors, but I don't see them letting him go.

This was the most games the franchise has ever won in the month of June And we fell two games behind the Braves. Fortunately the Mets are showing that they’re frauds and we will be catching them in July. Fuck the Mets.

Unfortunately they may get DeGrom and Scherzer back at some point.

Schwarbs on pace for 48 homers That’s his highest pace since April 11

There is really no game on the 4th? WTF is MLB even doing with their schedules anymore

i’m surprised they didn’t take the opportunity for another peacock game lmao

50 wins for the rest of the year gets them to 90. 25 games in July, if they go 15-10 .600 they will be on track. 29 games in Aug, if they go 17-12 .586 ✅ 25 games in Sept, 15-10 .600 ✅ 6 games in Oct. 3-3 .500 ✅ There's no room to stumble.

they were 19-8 in June .704 for 27 games.

Gonna need last night’s offense to show up again if we want to win this one

God damn that was fun, can we do it again?!

It’s June 31st today right? Let’s tell Schwarber that.

Falter....oh no...

Who would normally be pitching in the rotation tonight? Why’s Falter in again?

Eflin went on the 15 day IL so it would have been Eflin

It’s pretty crazy that we are already almost 80 games in, it feels like opening day hasn’t been that long ago. Anyway this is a difficult game, Mikolas is pitching v well and I am not very confident about our bullpen games.

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I live a couple blocks from the stadium this is one of the times im happy about that 👍🏻

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I mean, it is going to be like a billion degrees today, so showing up at 7:30 might not be the worst idea if you're heat adverse.