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The Phillies defeated the Brewers in four games to return to the NLCS for the first time since 1993. Phillies' ace Cole Hamels pitched eight shutout innings of two-hit ball while striking out nine as the Phillies prevailed by a 3–1 score in Game 1. Brett Myers helped lead the Phillies to victory in Game 2 with a solid seven-inning performance ...
The Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 season was the 126th in the history of the franchise. The team finished with a regular season record of 92–70, first in the National League East. In the postseason, the Phillies won the World Series; this was the first major sports championship for Philadelphia since the 76ers swept the 1983 NBA Finals.
The 2008 Major League Baseball season began on March 25, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan with the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeating the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome 6–5 (in 10 innings) in the first game of a two-game series, [1] [2] and ended on September 30 with the host Chicago White Sox defeating the Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff to win the AL Central.
The 2008 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the National League side in Major League Baseball’s 2008 postseason, was a best-of-seven baseball game series. The series matched the NL West Champion and third-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers against the NL East Champion and second-seeded Philadelphia Phillies , who had home ...
A crowd of 46,208, the largest in the five-year history of Citizens Bank Park, came out to watch Brett Myers pitch seven innings giving up two hits and two runs while striking out four and walking three to lead the Phillies to victory, giving them their first 2–0 playoff series lead since the 1980 World Series against the Kansas City Royals ...
Here is the full schedule for the upcoming MLB playoffs. ... The quest to the 2024 World Series begins Tuesday as the final games of the MLB regular season wrapped up Monday. The playoffs in ...
Before Tuesday's 5-2 victory against the Rangers, the starting rotation had a league-best ERA of 2.63. By comparison, Philadelphia’s staff ERA was an ugly 4.87 at this point last year.
The Phillies have thrice surpassed the century mark for wins in a season: in 1976 with 101 wins, [11] when they made their first playoff appearance in twenty-six seasons; again the next season when they matched that mark; [12] and in 2011, when they set the franchise single-season record for wins with 102 victories and clinched a playoff ...