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Compared to the team's early days, the Phillies have recently been more successful than not, with two periods of extended success: the first from 1975 to 1983, when they won five East Division championships as well as the first-half championship in the strike-shortened 1981 season, [5] and the second starting in 2001, with a winning percentage ...
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, stealing a page out of the New York Mets’ cardiac kids manual, pulled out a dramatic 7-6 victory to tie this electric best-of-five National League Division Series at 1-1.
The Philadelphia Phillies moved just one game from another World Series with a 6-1 win in Game 5 against the Arizona Diamondbacks on a night that Kyle Schwarber made postseason history.
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 ]
He eventually got his first win of 2009 after Jimmy Rollins hit a game-winning double to give the Phillies a 5–4 victory. Entering the 2009 World Series, Lidge and the New York Yankees' Mariano Rivera were the only closers who had not blown a save during the 2009 postseason. In Game 4 which would be Lidge's only appearance in that World ...
The Arizona Diamondbacks are in the National League Championship Series for the third time in franchise history, playing the Philadelphia Phillies. Zac Gallen, Dbacks' offense struggles, fall to ...
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.