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• J.T. Realmuto comes up with big hit in win against Tigers

  12-07-2026 22:32 via philliesnation.com
  
  J.T. Realmuto had a bases-clearing double in a win against the Tigers. (Madeline Ressler/Phillies Nation)
  It has not been a great first half offensively for J.T. Realmuto. The veteran catcher entered Sunday batting .200 with a .618 OPS. Realmuto has had an OPS of at least .700 in every season since 2016.Realmuto is known to heat up later in the summer, as August is usually his month the same way June is Kyle Schwarber’s month. Realmuto ended the first half on a high note, with a bases-cle
  
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• After first time pitching at Citizens Bank Park, Gage Wood isn’t looking too far ahead

  12-07-2026 21:35 via philliesnation.com
  
  Gage Wood started the All-Star Futures Game on Sunday. (Logan Gehman/Phillies Nation)
  PHILADELPHIA — The first pitch Phillies top pitching prospect Gage Wood fired from the Citizens Bank Park pitcher’s mound Sunday was a 96.6 mph four-seam fastball. Athletics prospect Leo De Vries, one of baseball’s top prospects, swung through the pitch. Wood, the Phillies’ first-round pick from a season ago, fired three more pitches to De Vries before he reached base on a bloop single
  
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• All-Star Futures Game: Phillies prospect perseveres after Tommy John surgery, has tattoo to remember it

  12-07-2026 20:53 via philliesnation.com
  
  Wen-Hui Pan pitched in the Futures Game. (Logan Gehman/Phillies Nation)
  PHILADELPHIA — On the left side of Wen-Hui Pan‘s neck, the right-hander pitcher has a tattoo that reads “PERSEVERE” in vertical English letters. The native of Taiwan got it last year, after he underwent Tommy John surgery, one of three different surgeries he’d had in his young career.The ink stays there as a message for Pan to keep going, even after going through injury-related adversity.&ldquo
  
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• Cristopher Sánchez to start All-Star Game in Philly

  12-07-2026 19:33 via philliesnation.com
  
  Cristopher Sánchez will start the All-Star Game in Philly, per a report. (Photo: Brendan Baldwin/Phillies Nation)
  PHILADELPHIA — Cristopher Sánchez will start for the National League in the All-Star Game on Tuesday in Philadelphia, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post.
  The Phillies left-hander is the first pitcher to start the All-Star Game in his home ballpark since Clayton Kershaw got the nod for the National League at Dodger Stadium in 2022. The only other Phillie to start
  
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• Phillies ‘completely comfortable’ with first-round draft pick after infielder missed entire high school season with back injury

  12-07-2026 03:06 via philliesnation.com
  
  Citizens Bank Park has been home to the Phillies since 2004. (Tim Kelly/Phillies Nation)
  Despite missing his entire senior season of high school with a back issue, shortstop Tyler Spangler provided Philadelphia with enough to make him their first selection in the 2026 Major League Baseball amateur draft. The Phillies are “super excited” about the 18-year-old they took with the No. 36 pick on Saturday afternoon after being impressed with what they saw before his injury and at two rec
  
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• Cristopher Sánchez bounces back against Tigers to finish strong first half

  12-07-2026 02:49 via philliesnation.com
  
  Cristopher Sánchez is 11-4 this year. (Madeline Ressler/Phillies Nation)
  Cristopher Sánchez finished his first half on a high note against the Tigers on Saturday night in Detroit, bouncing back from a career-worst start. After giving up 10 earned runs against the Royals last Monday, Sánchez finished seven innings Saturday in a 4-2 Phillies win.Sánchez did not have his best stuff. He worked around 10 hits, nine of which were singles, and was charged with two runs. But
  
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• MLB draft: Which prospects did Phillies pick on Day 1?

  12-07-2026 01:25 via philliesnation.com
  
  Citizens Bank Park has been the home of the Phillies since 2004. (Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire),
  Day 1 of Major League Baseball’s 2026 amateur draft has wrapped up, and the Phillies walked away with an infielder, an outfielder and a trio of college right-handed pitchers.Philadelphia selected shortstop Tyler Spangler out of De La Salle High School with the 36th pick in the first round, outfielder Caden Bogenpohl out of Missouri State University with the 64th pick in the second round, righ
  
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