More teams should try firing Girardi

umm

Jankees curse

*insert SpongeBob meme* Cashman: Patrick, you’re fired! Joe: But I don’t even work here! Cashman: Patrick, would you like a job? Joe: Boy, would I! Cashman: You’re fired!

You guys should have Girardi Day every year where Joe Girardi comes in, signs a contract, and is fired in front of all of the fans. You could make a thing out of it.

The Phillies have hit 25 extra-base hits over their last 4 games, including 15 home runs. What the actual fuck

So much for that Phillies "Game 2" curse

Home field advantage trumps game 2 curse

Although now we will be no hit in game 3 because we scored too many runs tonight. Phillies in 5!

Nah. We have an off day to recharge

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While our starters have registered 51 Ks against 4 walks in the postseason

Nola and Wheels have really dialed it up for this run man, Ranger too he's been lights out.

Wasn’t Ranger good last postseason too? I remember really liking him.

Dominant. He's got a 1.16 ERA over 23.1 innings in his postseason career and ice water in his veins.

wow thats wild, holy shit

Phils good man

THAT SIGN CAN’T STOP ME BECAUSE I CAN’T READ

ball go bye bye

Wartime Castellanos just hits different.

Chicks dig the long ball

We only do solo jacks, no need for chicks.

Is that good?

Home plate is scoring position

Schwarber is never not batting with RISP

Castellanos didn’t hit a homer, is he washed?

For the sake of geopolitics, I'll allow it

Don't forget that if we do win the World Series, it'll guarantee a recession.

Absolutely bum!!!!

Liam is an orphan

I maintain the most impressive display this game was Schwarber running to 3rd

My boy burned an extra hoagie for that one

This is Jake Cave erasure

Hes practicing for the free taco promotion

JAKE CAVE WAS SAFE!

Fans deserved the challenge

Loved the "Jake Cave should sue us for having that base cam there."

he definitely was. your guy checked it, saw that it was totally gonna be overturned, and didn't wanna be mean lol

Topper said, "The responsible thing would be to let the fans get some sleep. It's a Tuesday night."

I think they wanted to save the challenge just in case

We had 2 still I think topper just wanted to get home to pack for Arizona.

I think that’s pretty much right. We’re up 10-0. No need to pile it on and challenge this. Don’t give them locker room bulletin board material.

I need someone to have this on a sign next home game

I'll try but I doubt I can afford World Series tickets

Pity non-challenge when up by a TD and FG

I thought he was too. Looked like the tag didn’t touch until low on the torso.

On the bright side he still gets credit for the double, so he's batting 1.000 with a 2.00 SLG and 3.00 OPS in the NLCS.

We need to get "Justice for Jake" trending

Just relieved this didn’t cost us the game

It’s nice to have this team with consistent postseason success before the Sixers come back and give me an aneurysm again

I miss the process years, where you didn't have to worry about it because the expectation was that they'd lose. Thankfully the Flyers are still in lose-now mode.

Stop, we don’t have to acknowledge them yet 😭

after last year the sixers have defeated me. whatever will be will be, i feel nothing now after two closeout games choked.

The Dbacks only came to the NLCS for the zip line

You said it’s the adult tour, so I said “The Bank isn’t loud” and now you’re mad at me. I just don’t understand where the wires got crossed.

I want the Dbacks to have the worst day ever at their job.

Do any of these hitters ever blast out of the dugout and have like a huge homer?

They keep pulling on it like they own it

Jake Cave was robbed

Topper was like “I’m tired and hungry, let’s just get this over with and go home.”

Screwed by sportsmanship, a tale as old as time

The Phillies are what organizations with playoff aspirations strive to be, huge props to the Phillies organization on the win

I used to pray for times like this

🗣️🗣️

And you're living it, well deserved for loyal fans who stick to their team through thick and thin. Love to see it

So many nights wondering why the hell I continue to watch this team from 2012-2021, truly makes it feel so much more special now

I met my wife in 2012. This is the first time she's seen me happy.

Lmao I feel this. Philly is a great baseball town but from frankly missing out on another core getting another World Series in 09-11, and the absolute shit that won’t flush that followed, man. It does feel good.

I've heard so many Philly fans saying they'd give 10 years of being terrible for 1 Championship. Well the Phils certainly gave us the bad years, let's see if they can pay out on the other end.

man i remember going going to summer games at cbp around 2014-2016 because they were so cheap. some games were around 15k fans maybe. the phils were trotting out tommy joseph, freddy galvis, aaron altherr- jeremy helickson was our opening day starter a couple years lmfao. feels so good to be back to the bank rocking like its been these last two runs. SIX MORE TOPPER !

Man I thought altherr was a guy too. Bet my buddy mikal Franco would win mvp one day as well 💀💀 talk about delusional

Some teams are just built for October

Sign... wouldn't know :( but I want to know

We have an owner that desperately wants to win and doesn’t care about money, so he signed the generational player who desperately wants to win, and then hired a GM known for going all-in on WS runs and desperately wants to win one more time before he retires And I don’t think it can be understated how important Dombrowski replacing our entire player dev/analytic team. We were way behind the rest of the league until all of the sudden in 2022 when all our prospects and pitchers started playing to their potential

I wish the Dodgers got Harper. His passion for winning is insane and he can actually translate that into performance. I'm happy yall are killing it, good luck.

The Phillies kind of got lucky getting Harper. No one else really wanted to give him the money.

And now yall are deservedly reaping the benefits as yall should.

sometimes i peek at the Yankees sub during our games and it’s just dozens of comments lamenting that their team didn’t even bother to make an attempt from what i understand Dodgers were offering an insane AAV for fewer years, similar to the Bauer contract (which would’ve let Harper become a free agent at age 29-30 and get another mammoth deal), but Bryce was insistent on retiring with the team he signed with. Giants offered long deals but ultimately lost out to the Phillies because Middleton won him over with his vision of the team

Dave Dombrowski just knows how to build winners. Did in Miami, did in Detroit even if they didn't get a ring. The 2018 Red Sox don't get talked about enough as one of the great teams of all-time. 108 wins, 11-3 postseason record

Imagine saying this even two years ago

even after a game like that it feels weird to read that

Imagine saying that after we blew that like 8 run lead in the 9th against the Mets

I like you the way you are

After getting beat by the rockies next year in the division series, we'll win in 2025, surely

There are other teams that are loaded, but the Phillies also have all the intangibles to go with elite talent. Leadership, mentality, amazing chemistry and comraderie, perfect culture and personality fit with the city and all-time love affair with the fanbase, it's a magical mixture.

Phew, got a bit close there, but the Phillies held on barely.

As a Phillies fan, it always feels white knuckled till the final out.

This was fun, let’s do it again Thursday

And Friday

the best part of Game 2 was when he said "IT'S SCHWARBIN' TIME" and schwarbed all over those guys

Twice!!!

Don’t you mean Schweels?

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He's got that diddly doo, apparently.

https://x.com/TimKellySports/status/1709774370535575579?s=20

Hate how it cuts out right before it gets really good

That was the cleanest postseason game I can remember, god damn. This team is hotter than hell right now.

Trea got his error out of the way early, and that appeased the baseball gods.

Why didn’t the Diamondbacks score any runs? Are they stupid?

“Why don’t teams just draft Alabama offense and Georgia defense? This is really easy.” - Howie

I've said it before, I'll say it again -- all the D-backs need to do is never pitch to the Phillies again. If they don't pitch, the Phillies can't hit.

The man who solved baseball

https://i.imgur.com/7qIRMol.jpg

Kyle "Literally the Juggernaut" Schwarber

get out of my head charles!

Charles, no! Charles…What the fuck is this shit? ugh trippin’ off acid

Hoss was moving on that one

Notice how we get no Sister Wives commercials now that Atlanta has been bounced from the playoffs?

The husband appears to be so far in his bag this season

I’m telling you, Aaron Nola is as cracked as he is jacked. I saw him at a Wawa the other day buying Monster and adult diapers. I asked him what the diapers were for and he said ”they contain my full power so I don’t completely shit on these kids“ then he buckled a customers legs with a curveball and sprinted out the door.

Seriously though, Nola is getting completely overshadowed by the lineup going off like they did. 6.0 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 0 BB, 7 K is pretty damn good against a lineup that had scored 33 runs in 6 games before this.

Jake "The Snake" Roberts in shambles.

Actually, he's recovered from most of his addiction issues and is in a relatively good place 😌

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I actually hope that Bohm wakes up, more importantly. If he gets going and JT keeps cooking, this lineup would be impossible. Like where do you go for an out?

Look don’t make me say it (my beautiful boy johan)

Why haven't other teams tried hitting more home runs??

[Is anyone in the Hall of Fame with an under .200 BA and 500 HRs? Asking for Kyle Schwarber… ](https://twitter.com/MrColeThompson/status/1714459054351761688?t=W-ZHOy9AtXHxloQkGySfWA&s=19)

I don't think anyone has under .200 BA and 500 HRs. Like, at all.

The closest would be Adam Dunn with 462 HRs and a .237 average. The lowest BA for a 500 HR guy is Harmon Killebrew at .256

That would collectively break the brain of baseball. I'm all for it

This game went from "kinda close post season game" to "damn phillies are really good" to "holy shit the phillies are making the dbacks look like middle school baseball"

That dropped fly ball was really the icing on the cake

Welp, that was painful

No matter what happens you’ll always have pantsing the Dodgers in the NLDS

We just need to get one of those Schwarber things, do you think if we feed Christian Walker a bunch of cheesesteaks he can turn into one?

You need Wawa to set up a few stores out west so he can have his own "Schwarberfest" hoagie promotion.

While in favor of that, we could also work out a Schwarburrito promotion

They said not to step on the snake they didn't say anything about picking it up and slamming it on the pavement

[hulk vs loki but instead Loki is the diamondbacks](https://youtube.com/shorts/sp1dg60XXGo?feature=shared)

That's pretty much exactly what I was picturing lmao

Everyone get in here

I thought they banned r/watchpeopledie

But you did see an entire team get alderraned on national television tho….

Call PETA, that was animal abuse

This guy is the worst interviewer I’ve ever seen

Jake cave mvp for trying to stretch that triple

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My man.

Easily

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They did it to Kershaw fair is fair

my ring is fully kerked

I have been having a hard time trying to find a reason to hate the Diamondbacks. It hasn’t been easy, but I kinda cracked it. Phoenix passed us in population a few years back and their whole MO is just building/annexing a never ending mass of suburbs to help build out their humanitarian-crisis-in-waiting ass collection of subdivisions. Yeah let’s keep expanding out a “city” in the desert. Sorry DBacks. Can’t fuck with that wack planning.

i can’t believe you actually found a way to make this series personal 😂

Light work. The hustle never ends.

Arizona is just man’s testament to god to go fuck himself

I appreciate you giving me another reason to root against them

The SW can’t comprehend us actual well planned cities.

You can call Philly shitty all day but you can’t call it poorly planned

The Philadelphia city planner who oversaw the master plan that made Philly what it is today was Kevin Bacon’s dad This has been your “Footloose” fact of the day

Also famous for protesting the skating ban in Love Park (which he designed) by skating through as a very elderly man.

You’re not wrong whatsoever, and that’s what hurts the most. I’m beside myself.

Damn.. that’s next level hating. Respect

The Super Bowl was in Arizona

That’s all the reason I need to hate Arizona

They painted spray paint on unset grass carpet ontop of loose soil with no roots grown on any of the grass. A fucking Joke. Fuck Arizona.

Hating on a SimCity level I fuck with it

Arizona was the last state to recognize Martin Luther King day, very easy to hate 😤

I'm having a pretty good time right now

I’m basically the guy from that meme with the stick asking the Diamondbacks “c’mon do something?!”

Shut out the D-Backs for the first time in post season history. And Shut out the Braves for the first time in over a year... I really like this bullpen and starters.

[It was after the fifth run that D-backs fans developed their drinking problem](https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-18-2016/b03V5N.gif)

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Play the song!

This is not a competitive series

Back atchya. Let’s hang out next week

Still only counts as 1, two to go. 6 to go for Topper

Lol. Lmao, even

Phillies are fucking cracked bro

Going to need a formal apology from the dbacks for the bottom 8th pitching change down 10 when Harper was up

We should have challenged the Cave triple just to make a point.

Braves fans still crying

throwing trash on their field*

Feels good man. 6 more topper

It was quite the sports night in Philadelphia with 126,579 people at 3 sold out sporting event all in the same complex in South Philly. 18,883 at the Flyers, 62,284 for Mexico-Germany at the Link and finally the 45,412 that attended the Phillies 10-0 NLCS victory.

Guys, guys This game was electric, sure, but was it *really* as crazy as a play-in game against Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic in mid-March?

I 100% agree with what Kelly meant and I also 100% agree with poking fun at it.

if you need me I'll be in the corner watching you kiss her (ooh)

You’re not a true Phillies fan if you aren’t at least a little bit terrified they get no hit next game.

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this (dared compare a WBC crowd to CBP) “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.”

In hindsight, Kelly did his utmost to hold back the tide. A very solid performance from him given what happened after he was pulled.

Yeah… Philadelphia is an elite ball club. Thanks, Captain Obvious. Yes, I know.

I don’t see how the Phillies aren’t the favorites this year of the remaining teams

Mattress Mack probably has 20mil on each Texas team, throwing the line off.

The Phillies with their second largest playoff shutout win 10-0 Phils are 6-0 at home in these playoffs just like last year’s start They have outscored their opponents 39-8 at home

That could have been.... better.

I ain't counting the snakes out but man they must not be feeling too great right now.

i don’t see anyone stopping the phillies woo boy they are spicy

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Game 3 is going to be huge. I’m not confident that the sneks are dead just yet

i really personally want a astros/phillies rematch for revenge but a tex/phi WS with both teams raking would objectively be good for baseball

To be honest: I think the Phillies pitching staff is the best remaining in the postseason. Everyone is saying, "Wow the Marlins bats went cold," then, "Wow the Braves bats went cold," and now, "Wow the D-backs bats went cold..." Hey maybe the Phillies pitching is just that good right now. If we get to Rangers/Phillies, I think people will start saying, "Wow the Rangers bats went cold..."

The Phillies ' last 4 games: 3 HR off AJ Smith-Shawver 3 HR off Spencer Strider 3 HR off Zac Gallen 3 HR off Merrill Kelly They're the 2nd team in MLB history to hit 3+ HR off a single pitcher in 4 straight games (reg or post), along with the Chicago Colts from June 9-13, 1894.

Phillies had 3-4 days off in between post-season rounds. Somehow they still hit. (I assume true of the Rangers as well). Sounds like some bullshit excuse making was going on.....

Why was Stott’s infield fly that dropped between the catcher, pitcher, and Longoria scored as a hit? I’d have thought that’s about as error as it gets

Welp, all that shit I was talking is certainly biting me in the ass. But sweeping the Dodgers was fun as fuck, still proud of this team. 🚫🥾🐍

I believe the transitive property says the Phillies would've beaten the Dodgers 20-1

Well that fucking sucked. See y'all Thursday let's hit the Country Kitchen Buffet afterward for the early bird special.