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The 1915 Phillies were the first in franchise history to win the National League pennant. This is a list of seasons completed by the Philadelphia Phillies, originally known as the Philadelphia Quakers, a professional baseball franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The 1930 Phillies, who went 52–102, set two more National League records, allowing 1,993 hits and 1,193 runs in the regular season. ... Win–loss percentage ...
From May 26 to June 13, the Phillies posted a 14–4 record, starting their run with a 15–6 win over the Houston Astros and ending with a 20–2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. However, the offense took a downturn as the Phillies pitchers began to sacrifice more runs in the latter part of the month.
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 ...
The Phillies' win–loss record never went below .500 during this time; and the team won the NL East five years in a row from 2007 to 2011. [63] End of an era (2013 ...
With their victory, the Phillies became the final team out of the original 16 MLB teams to win a World Series. However, a Philadelphia team had won a World Series before, the last being the Athletics in 1930, exactly a half-century earlier; in a twist of fate, the Athletics played 13 years in Kansas City (1955–1967) before relocating to Oakland.
The Phillies went on to defeat the Houston Astros in the NLCS to gain their first NL title since 1950, and then defeated the Kansas City Royals to win their first World Series Championship. The 1980 Phillies became the first team in the divisional era (since 1969) to win the World Series despite having the worst record of all teams in the ...
The 1980 National League pennant race was one of the most exciting races in baseball history, [1] as both divisions came down to the final weekend. The NL East race featured the Pirates, the defending World Series Champions; the Phillies, who were hovering just over a .500 winning percentage and in third place until the middle of August; and the Expos, who were leading the division or within ...