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• 4 innings complete, and we hold a 5-3 lead over the Pirates. Franco's HR: atmlb.com/2nUfwBo Knapp's:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  26-03-2017 20:58 via twitter.com
  4 innings complete, and we hold a 5-3 lead over the Pirates.Franco's HR: atmlb.com/2nUfwBo Knapp's:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Managers, former teammate react to Mike Trout injury news: ‘It stinks’

  01-05-2024 03:47 via philliesnation.com
  
  Mike Trout will miss extended time after tearing his meniscus. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire)
  ANAHEIM — No one raised an eyebrow at Mike Trout during the Angels’ 6-5 win over the Phillies on Monday night. There was no reason to. Trout went to the plate all four times the leadoff spot came up for Los Angeles. Manned center field all nine innings. Stole a bag. Scored from second on a wild pitch. The biggest abnormality for the future Hall of Famer was the zero in the hit column. 
  
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• After a trade everybody won, Brandon Marsh and Logan O’Hoppe are pulling for each other

  30-04-2024 16:57 via philliesnation.com
  
  Brandon Marsh is off to a strong start in 2024. (Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire)
  ANAHEIM — There aren’t many trades in sports history that qualified as win-wins once hindsight offered its two cents. On Aug. 2, 2022, the Phillies and Angels completed one of them.Now, with Brandon Marsh returning to Anaheim for the first time since that trade, and with Marsh and Logan O’Hoppe each established as productive regulars for their respective club, everyone involved would be hard-pressed
  
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• What options do the Phillies have with struggling Seranthony Domínguez?

  30-04-2024 16:56 via philliesnation.com
  
  Seranthony Dominguez has struggled in 2024. (Rick Ulreich/Icon Sportswire)
  The Philadelphia Phillies have a problem with reliever Seranthony Domínguez, but a solution isn’t so simple.While Domínguez was initially a victim of some bad luck on soft contact by Los Angeles Angels hitters in Monday night’s Phillies loss, he eventually unraveled in the bottom of the seventh inning. The play that ultimately allowed the winning run to score came on a wild pitch by Domín
  
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• Phillies’ early lead slips in ugly fashion, late rally squandered in opener loss to Angels

  30-04-2024 06:29 via philliesnation.com
  
  Alec Bohm had a big hit early but couldn’t come through late against the Angels. (Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire)
  Final score: Angels 6, Phillies 5ANAHEIM — It was too good a script. The Phillies had two men in scoring position with one out in the ninth, a single away from tying it. First chance: Alec Bohm, the NL Player of the Week who’s built the best start to a season of his career largely on the strength of hitting with runners in scoring position. Second chance: Bran
  
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• The Phillies rotation is not normal

  30-04-2024 01:04 via philliesnation.com
  
  Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler are off to strong starts. (Grace Del Pizzo/Phillies Nation)
  The Phillies rotation is off to a truly special start.
  Through 29 games, the staff ranks second in the league in ERA (2.36), third in strikeouts-per-nine innings (9.44) and first in FanGraphs WAR (4.4). The rotation is also first among all MLB teams in innings pitched at 175 1/3, 12 1/3 more innings than the second-place Kansas City Royals.As the rest of baseball yearns for the days when starters consistentl
  
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• Phillies pitching prospect off to breakout start in Clearwater

  29-04-2024 17:08 via philliesnation.com
  
  George Klassen is in Single-A Clearwater. (Cheryl Pursell)
  Phillies fans may want to remember the name George Klassen.Because if he pitches anywhere near the way he has through four professional starts, the young right-hander will certainly make an impact on the organization in one way or another.Klassen, a sixth-round pick in the 2023 draft, has excelled as a starter for Single-A Clearwater so far this season. The hard-throwing 22-year-old has yet to allow an earned run through four outings wh
  
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• MLB, Nike will make corrections to uniforms after months of complaints

  29-04-2024 16:05 via philliesnation.com
  
  Brandon Marsh is in his third season with the Phillies. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)
  Sometimes the best thing you can do to make sure an issue is addressed is complain. And keep complaining. And then complain some more.That strategy appears to have worked in regards to the much-maligned Nike Vapor Premier jersey template that MLB switched to this season, which has been widely panned by players, fans and pretty much everyone not collecting a paycheck from one of those two corporations.
  
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• Taijuan Walker makes season debut, Bryson Stott homers twice as Phillies sweep Padres

  29-04-2024 00:52 via philliesnation.com
  
  Bryson Stott hit two home runs Sunday. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)
  Final Score: Phillies 8, Padres 6Taijuan Walker was an important piece to the puzzle for the Phillies last season. He started 31 games, covered 172 2/3 innings and kept the team in games when he pitched. The Phillies went 21-10 in his 31 starts a season ago. The right-hander didn’t pitch in the postseason, though. Then, the start to his 2024 season was delayed after being diagnosed with an impingement in his throwing sh
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/28: Prison baseball story time with John Kruk

  28-04-2024 18:37 via philliesnation.com
  
  John Kruk is a Phillies Wall of Famer. (Icon Sports Media)
  Sometimes on West Coast games, you count on the broadcasters to make things interesting enough to keep fans on the East Coast awake for the entire game.
  With dominant performances from Ranger Suárez and Alec Bohm in a Philadelphia Phillies win over the San Diego Padres Saturday, the game was plenty entertaining enough. But John Kruk still did his part in the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast booth to make sure fans were hanging o
  
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• Bohm, Suárez continue elite runs as Phillies win series over Padres

  28-04-2024 04:49 via philliesnation.com
  
  Ranger Suárez’s scoreless streak ended Saturday, but he was dominant nonetheless. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)
  Final score: Phillies 5, Padres 1Minus the degree to which they wear their emotions on their sleeves, Alec Bohm and Ranger Suárez are oddly comparable as baseball players. Neither is particularly flashy. Neither will wow you with jaw-dropping tools. Neither is at the forefront of the national baseball discourse.And both are playing like superstars.
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/27: Is Alec Bohm finally developing into a star?

  27-04-2024 16:00 via philliesnation.com
  
  Alec Bohm has had a strong start for the Phillies in 2024. (John Adams/Icon Sportswire)
  Alec Bohm showed flashes of his elite offensive potential over his first four seasons, but entering 2024, had yet to entirely realize being an All-Star caliber hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies.Perhaps that’s changing before our eyes.
  Bohm was responsible for three of the 13 hits that the Phillies posted in Friday night’s 9-3 win over the San Diego Padres. He’s in the midst of 10-game hi
  
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• Phillies crush 5 home runs in win against Padres

  27-04-2024 06:27 via philliesnation.com
  
  Kyle Schwarber hit his 100th career home run as a Phillie in Friday’s win against San Diego. (Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire)
  Final Score: Phillies 9, Padres 3
  “If you don’t think we’re gonna slug, you ain’t watching the games,” Rob Thomson said to wise guy radio host Howard Eskin as the Phillies offense was in the midst of a cold stretch in mid-April.
  "If you don't think we're gonna slug,you ain't watching the games."-Rob Thomson to Howard Eskin pic.twitter.c
  
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• So far so good for Zack Wheeler and his splitter

  26-04-2024 23:19 via philliesnation.com
  
  Zack Wheeler is in his fifth season with the Phillies. (Photo by Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire)
  Like every other Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher, Zack Wheeler is off to a great start this year. After tossing six scoreless innings on Thursday, the veteran right-hander lowered his ERA on the year to 1.93. Across his six starts, Wheeler has struck out 46 batters in 37 1/3 innings. His 1.3 fWAR entering Friday leads Major League Baseball among pitchers.It’s no surprise Wheeler is off t
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/26: Bryce Harper continues post-paternity-leave success

  26-04-2024 07:39 via philliesnation.com
  
  Bryce Harper homered on Thursday. (Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire)
  Phillies star first baseman Bryce Harper officially made an amusing one-off story a trend on Thursday afternoon as he homered in his first game back off the paternity list for the second time in his career.After missing the first three games of the series for the birth of his third child and second daughter, Harper crushed a hanging changeup for a two-run home run as part of a third-inning rally that helped carry Philadelphia to
  
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• Zack Wheeler, third-inning rally lead Phillies to split in Cincinnati

  25-04-2024 21:46 via philliesnation.com
  
  Zack Wheeler threw six shutout innings on Thursday. (Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire)
  Final score: Phillies 5, Reds 0The Phillies needed a mini-stopper of sorts after two uncharacteristically sloppy losses in Cincinnati followed their seven-game winning streak. These days, it’s not hard to choose a stopper in the club’s starting rotation — everyone has been a stopper — but it’s hard to argue against Zack Wheeler as a leading candidate.Wheeler was that mini-s
  
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• Dave Dombrowski on Taijuan Walker: ‘Now he has to go out and perform’

  25-04-2024 18:12 via philliesnation.com
  
  Taijuan Walker is in his second season with the Phillies. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)
  Taijuan Walker will return to the Philadelphia Phillies starting rotation Sunday at Petco Park against the San Diego Padres. But it can be argued that the 31-year-old is in a no-win situation.Of course, regardless of how Walker pitches, he’ll make $18 million in 2024. And then again in 2025. And 2026. We should all be so unlucky.
  But the belief is that with Walker returning from a shoulder injury,
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/25: Prior offseason target to have Tommy John surgery

  25-04-2024 15:07 via philliesnation.com
  
  Robert Stephenson pitched for the Rays in 2023. (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)
  The epidemic of pitcher injuries has hit a prior Phillies offseason target. Robert Stephenson, whom the club targeted this January, is getting Tommy John surgery and will miss the remainder of this season — plus the start of the next.Stephenson, who signed a three-year, $33 million contract with the Angels, didn’t make an appearance for Los Angeles this regular season. He began feeling pain i
  
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• Bullpen wastes strong performances from Bohm, Turnbull in loss to Reds

  25-04-2024 03:52 via philliesnation.com
  
  Seranthony Domínguez took the loss Wednesday. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)
  Final score: Reds 7, Phillies 4A sixth-inning collapse from right-hander Seranthony Domínguez and the Phillies bullpen wasted a tremendous performance at the plate from first baseman Alec Bohm and another strong outing from starting pitcher Spencer Turnbull.Domínguez was charged with four earned runs in 2/3 of an inning as Philadelphia lost, 7-4, against the Reds at Great American Ball Park on
  
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• Taijuan Walker to make first start of season during San Diego series

  24-04-2024 19:47 via philliesnation.com
  
  Taijuan Walker is set to come off of the injured list this weekend. (Cheryl Pursell)
  Taijuan Walker (right shoulder soreness) is set to make his season debut later this week.
  He will make his first start with the Phillies on Sunday, April 28 against the San Diego Padres, manager Rob Thomson told reporters in Cincinnati on Tuesday, including Todd Zolecki of MLB.com.
  While it’s not 100% official, Walker is expected to replace Spencer Turnbull in the rotation. Turnbull will then move to the
  
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• The Phillies nearly acquired Josh Naylor in 2016. It might have drastically changed their future.

  24-04-2024 19:18 via philliesnation.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesFew hitters in baseball are off to better starts this season than Cleveland Guardians first baseman/DH Josh Naylor. Once upon a time, the Philadelphia Phillies nearly acquired him as a prospect. Had then done so, it might have drastically altered the future of the team.
  The 26-year-old is slashing .321/.387/.605 with six home runs, 20 RBIs and a .992 OPS. Back at the 2016 MLB trade deadline, the Phillies had a deal in place that would have allowed them to acquire Naylor, b
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/24: Johan Rojas continues to look like generational defender

  24-04-2024 16:26 via philliesnation.com
  
  Brandon Marsh and Nick Castellanos embrace Phillies center fielder Johan Rojas. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)
  The term “generational” is overused in sports talk. But it increasingly feels applicable when talking about Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Johan Rojas‘ defensive prowess.Rojas robbed Cincinnati Reds left fielder Spencer Steer of extra bases in the fourth inning of Tuesday evening’s Phillies loss at Great American Ballpark. Though he initially appear
  
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• Bad third inning from Sánchez, Phillies defense ends winning streak

  24-04-2024 03:16 via philliesnation.com
  
  Cristopher Sanchez pitched only three innings in a loss to the Reds on Tuesday night. (Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire)
  Final Score: Reds 8, Phillies 1The Phillies’ early winning streak is no more.
  They scored first in the opening frame for the fifth time in the last seven games, but that was all as the scrappy Cincinnati Reds made starter Cristopher Sánchez work in an 8-1 loss that snapped the Phillies’ seven-game winning streak. The Phillies are now 15-9.
  A series of unfortunat
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/23: Through 5 starts, Ranger Suárez is pitching like an ace

  23-04-2024 15:08 via philliesnation.com
  
  Ranger Suárez signed with the Phillies in 2012. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)
  Ranger Suárez has been a key contributor to the Philadelphia Phillies’ pitching staff over the last few years.
  In 2021, he pitched out of the bullpen — both as a regular reliever and closer — for the first four months of the season and was stretched out into a starter over the season’s final two months. He finished 2021 with 39 appearances and a 1.36 ERA. Two year
  
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• Ranger Suárez continues his roll as Phillies win seventh straight

  23-04-2024 02:45 via philliesnation.com
  
  Ranger Suárez dominated yet again on Monday. (Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire)
  It is not supposed to be this easy, but Ranger Suárez has been making pitching look like a piece of cake. The easygoing southpaw dominated once again on Monday, firing seven shutout innings without breaking a sweat to lead the Phillies to their seventh straight victory, 7-0 over the Reds in Cincinnati.The Reds put a runner in scoring position once against Suárez, when Elly De La Cruz was bun
  
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• Bryce Harper placed on paternity list by Phillies

  22-04-2024 18:58 via philliesnation.com
  
  Bryce Harper has been placed on the paternity list. (Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire)
  The Philadelphia Phillies will be without first baseman Bryce Harper as they open their 10-game roadtrip in Cincinnati Monday.
  Prior to this evening’s game at Great American Ballpark against the Reds, the Phillies announced that the two-time NL MVP has been placed on the paternity list. Harper and his wife, Kayla, revealed in an Instagram post in March that they were expecting their third child together.
  
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• Phillies news and rumors 4/22: Johan Rojas looking much better at the plate

  22-04-2024 16:10 via philliesnation.com
  
  Johan Rojas has started to turn the corner offensively. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)
  The walls were not closing in on Johan Rojas, because eight games is too small a sample and there is no obvious backup plan, but the center-field situation as of April 7 was getting untenable. The 23-year-old was 1-for-22, with one hard-hit ball (above 95 mph) — and it was a groundout. The numbers weren’t good, and neither were the visuals.So Rob Thomson gave him the day off on April 7. It
  
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• Scott Kingery slugging his way to red-hot April in minors

  22-04-2024 07:23 via philliesnation.com
  
  Scott Kingery is currently at Triple-A Lehigh Valley. (Cheryl Pursell)
  Scott Kingery is still in the Phillies organization, making noise in the minor leagues.The former top prospect has put together a red-hot month of April at the plate for Triple-A Lehigh Valley as he plays what could be his final season under contract for Philadelphia.
  Kingery, who turns 30 next week, is batting .302/.375/.721 in 13 April games after a slow first series to start the season at the end of March. The utility man
  
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• Phillies rotation looks like baseball’s best in dominant homestand

  22-04-2024 01:37 via philliesnation.com
  
  Aaron Nola and the Phillies rotation have been dominant. (Cody Glenn/Icon Sportswire)
  Aaron Nola logged eight innings in Sunday afternoon’s win over the Chicago White Sox, limiting opposing hitters to just four hits and two earned runs, while striking out seven batters. Given that he only threw 91 pitches, Nola very easily could have gone back out for the ninth inning under different circumstances.
  And yet, Nola might have turned in the worst start of the weekend by Phillies pitchers, whi
  
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• Phillies cap off soft stretch of schedule with 6 straight wins

  21-04-2024 22:18 via philliesnation.com
  
  Bryce Harper recorded one hit and a run scored in Sunday’s win against the White Sox (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire)
  Final Score: Phillies 8, White Sox 2The Phillies (14-8) have enjoyed a week of baseball against two of the worst teams in MLB.
  They finished off back-to-back sweeps of the Colorado Rockies and Chicago White Sox with an 8-2 win over Chicago in Sunday’s series finale. Aaron Nola allowed two runs in the first, but kept his pitch count low and got through eight innings. Yuni
  
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