What to do when your favorite story of the year is reduced to a work of fiction. mitchgoldich with a look back at the Phillies’ run to the World Series and what could have been
. This is a polite way of saying the overall plan didn’t really work at all. But they’ll get the banner and the rings anyway.
It is impossible to separate this newly crowned champion from those years of wandering. It lurked in the background from spring training through every up and down until that sigh of relief when the playoff drought was broken in Game 160. The Phillies’ own recent history proved a more exhausting foe than the Cardinals, Braves, Padres or Astros.
But at various times this season—the nine-game winning streak in June, the 32–20 mark while Bryce Harper was out with a broken thumb, thein the wild-card round in St. Louis—the Phillies proved this team was different from the ones that had folded before it. Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh were two of the players brought in this year from outside the organization. They fit right into this ragtag group of lovable lads.The 2008 championship was led by a core of home-grown players. This one was captured on the backs of imports, plucked from elsewhere around the baseball universe. That’s not meant in a negative way to cheapen the accomplishment.
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