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zambonir
Oct '22
Philsmania

That is what's known as anecdote. Or a low-probability event. Could happen, doesn't mean it will. (Just like the Phillies blowing a 96% chance of the playoffs on September 14).

Also, how did the Phillies do against the Dodgers in the 1977 and 1978 regular season?

The Mets match-up is less about the season series as the pitching (and no less applicable with the Braves). On paper Mets cancel out any advantage Phillies might have with Wheeler and Nola. Cardinals don't do so at nearly the same level.

Philsmania
Oct '22

DeGrom and Scherzer didn't exactly set the world on fire against the Braves but, yes, we are talking about the Braves.

zambonir
Oct '22

I'm glad the number is not so big that he might actually get a meaningful save against us. But I would laugh.

Philsmania
Oct '22

If you bundle the Phillies' September (11-14) and October (3-1), we are 14-15 in the final month of the season. Not good but not ghastly like some recent seasons. If the last week of the season is really the last seven games, we are 4-1 so far and, at worst, will go 4-3, our first winning final week of the season since 2017 when we went 5-2. And, last week's struggles now probably qualify as a stumble more so than a collapse. So, I think we can say that the September demon has probably been exorcised.

Sabin
Oct '22

That was a good read. The Alvarez moment seems to represent the phutility felt through many a long year.

zambonir
Oct '22

So, it's done. Phillies-Cardinals. Much as I've preferred this path all along, this is not the same Cardinals team from July (and even then the Phillies dropped the last two of the four games in St. Louis).

Cards have 93 wins to the Phillies' 87, a +137 run differential to the Phillies' +63, a .654 home winning percentage and a .634 second-half winning percentage (.532 in the first half). They also went 22-7 in August to dispatch the Brewers, then cooled off some in September (15-11). And built their record on a lot of bad teams much like the Phillies. So hey, anything could happen.

zambonir
Oct '22

You'd like to think today since the seeds are set but maybe they have to wait until all the games are played. I bet we're pretty early on Friday.

andyb
Oct '22

No West Coast home teams. The NL series look like the better TV draws so I imagine the Phillies will be at night if they go with Noon, 3, 6, and 9 PM starts. Could easily be the 9 PM since they are central time zone. If they double up on one of the afternoon slots then they'll put the Mets in prime time for a 7:30 or 8:00 start.

BTW we get the K-Rod announcing team from ESPN I think.

VoteForKalas
Oct '22

Thankfully these games will be on a TV channel most people can find and watch

andyb
Oct '22
Lucky_Beagle

That makes sense if they can't do a West Coast late night game. Guessing we'll be 2 or 4 then. They probably don't want to put the Seattle series on too early so that might push us to 2:00.

zambonir
Oct '22

I would think the Padres won't be asked to play the first two games of the day either though as you note they probably want the Mets on prime time anyway.

Philsmania
Oct '22

I got to imagine that for weeks, Mets fans have been of the mindset that their team would be division champs and get to skip the wildcard round. Suddenly, their ticket office has a lot of work to do.

andyb
Oct '22

That makes sense to me though guessing ESPN might have preferred a West Coast site to push some of the games later so they are not doubling up on prime time. No day games after night games for the players is good.