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The Mets–Phillies rivalry or Battle of the Broads is a Major League Baseball (MLB) rivalry between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. Both clubs are members of MLB's National League (NL) East division. The rivalry between the two clubs is said to be among the most fiercely contested in the NL.
The Mets were the Majors' worst team when the Phillies won the NL pennant in 1993, [84] and the Phillies did not post a winning record in either of the Mets' wild-card-winning seasons of 1999 or 2000, when the Mets faced the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series.
The rivalry between the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies from 2006 to 2008 was said to be among the "hottest" rivalries in the National League. [252] [253] Aside from several brawls in the 1980s, the rivalry remained low-key before the 2006 season, [254] as the teams had seldom been equally good at the same time. Since 2006, the teams have ...
The Phillies won the season series over the Mets, 7–6. [11] This was the first postseason meeting of the Phillies and Mets, who have been rivals since the creation of the Mets franchise in 1962 but have had mutual winning seasons only ten times in 63 years of co-existence. [12]
The New York Mets finished the regular season with a franchise-best record of 108–54, winning the National League East division by 21 + 1 ⁄ 2 games over the division rival Philadelphia Phillies. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] They then won a tightly contested 1986 National League Championship Series against the Houston Astros , 4 games to 2, clinching ...
In Game 1, the Phillies took a 1–0 lead off a home run from Kyle Schwarber and held that lead until the eighth inning, when the Mets put up five runs to take the lead for good and win. Game 2 was an offensive duel between both teams - the Mets led for most of the game as Mark Vientos , Pete Alonso , and Brandon Nimmo all hit home runs to put ...
The first game of the Phillies season was an unforgettable opening day game at Shea Stadium against their division rival New York Mets.Both of them were involved in the longest scoreless opening day game in the National League and the longest one in the MLB since 1926 when the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 1–0 in 15 innings.
The Mets began the month of May with a memorable 2–1, 14-inning win over the division rival Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on May 1. The Mets' Daniel Murphy was batting as a pinch-hitter against Phillies' reliever Ryan Madson when the fans started chanting " U-S-A !"