The Phillies Are Streaking
By: Tye Richmond
After firing Joe Girardi last weekend, the Phillies have won 5 straight games altogether pushing their win streak to 6 games.
In an article from Jim Salisbury he said, “You can’t help but look at the Phillies these last few days and wonder if it’s the same club that looked so lifeless, so beaten, so hopeless just a week or so ago.
Fueled by four home runs and the brilliance of Aaron Nola, the reborn Phils continued their June revival with a 10-0 road win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.
It was the Phils’ season-best sixth win in a row. Five of them have come under the leadership of new manager Rob Thomson, who is unbeaten since taking over for Joe Girardi on Friday.
The Phils were seven games under .500 when Girardi was fired. They are now two games under .500, scoring lots of runs, hitting for power, and playing a cleaner brand of baseball. Not spotless. But cleaner.”
Just watching the team in the past week or so you can see a completely different Phillies team than the one we saw at the start of the year.
If this team somehow turns it around and makes it to the playoffs the tristate would go crazy. There is already hype built around the Eagles this year with the team they have put together. But with the Phillies not making the playoff in 10 years that will be a different type of hype and craziness. So, fingers crossed the red-hot Phillies are still streaking all the way through playoff baseball.
