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The first night game in Major League Baseball history occurred on May 24, 1935, when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field. [1] The original plan was that the Reds would play seven night games each season, one against each visiting club. [2]
Just like that, the Phillies are alive and well, and headed to New York to play Game 3 of the NLCS at Citi Field. Phillies players celebrate their walk-off win in Game 2. The Mets, meanwhile, are ...
The team with the best record to win the NL pennant was the 1906 Cubs, who won 116 of 152 games during that season [15] and finished 20 games ahead of the New York Giants. [16] The best record by a pennant winner in the Championship Series era is 108–54, which was achieved by the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 [ 17 ] and the New York Mets in 1986 ...
All six USA TODAY Sports MLB writers and editors picked the Phillies to defeat the Mets in the NLDS, with three predicting that the Phillies will go on to win their first World Series since 2008.
The Phillies are in Cincinnati on Monday for the start of a 10-game road trip that includes three games in San Diego and three in Los Angeles against the Angels.
Aaron Nola was unable to hold on to a 5–0 lead in game 1 (the start of a season-long struggle for the right-hander); the Phillies went on to lose 11–7. They were blown out 16–3 two days later before Texas finished off the sweep with a 2–1 win on Sunday Night Baseball, dropping the Phillies to 0–3.
New York Mets' Francisco Alvarez (4) celebrates his three run home run off Philadelphia Phillies' Aaron Nola with Mets' Tyrone Taylor (15) during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Friday, Sept ...
Halladay's was only the second postseason no-hitter in Major League Baseball history, and the first since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. [11] He threw only 104 pitches. During the 2010 regular season, Halladay had thrown a perfect game on the road against the Florida Marlins on May 29.