Did Kyle Schwarber Just Save The Phillies Season?

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Things looked bleak for the Philadelphia Phillies last night before Kyle Schwarber's grand slam erased a three-run deficit. Was that one swing enough to turn things around for the scuffling Phils?

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00:00Alright, so the Philz, uh, woo, boy they had struggled since you were up at last night,

00:04no.

00:05I mean, initially, sure, but matter of fact, we can't go any further, I gotta hear it,

00:09Seltzer, over-unders today, eight.

00:13Do we play the Grand Slam more or less than eight times today?

00:16What's your prediction, James?

00:18Whatever the prediction is, it can't be enough.

00:20It can't be enough.

00:21Let's put one on the board.

00:22Swarmer ahead of the count, it's two balls and a strike, as Edward Cabrera kicks and

00:27Deals in the pit, swung on, a hit in the air, left field, going back on it, is Stowers

00:32at the wall, and it's gone, and he has turned it around with one swing of the bat, Kyle

00:39Swarmer, a Grand Slam, and the Phillies now lead it six to five.

00:47You know when you're in a slump, John, and you just know you need something, you've probably

00:53been in those kind of slumps, John.

00:54The seventh career Grand Slam, and Kyle Swarmer knows how to end an offer, my goodness.

01:05This is great.

01:06If that doesn't jump-start it, I don't know what will.

01:10Wow.

01:11Listen to the crowd, that's good stuff.

01:13That's the leader right there.

01:14My arms literally went in the air at the moment it happened, like straight in the air.

01:19Yep, that's the leader.

01:21That's a man who knows what this team needs and has the just uncanny ability to get it

01:26done.

01:27Man, just beautiful, beautiful hands in a pressure-packed situation, and that's, yeah,

01:33that's what we needed.

01:34That's the turning point, isn't it?

01:37It feels good.

01:38Well, and the guy we wanted up, like if you could have picked anyone on the roster to

01:41be up in that spot, it's Kyle Swarmer right now.

01:43Look at you, Dawg and Harper.

01:44Would you have picked Harper right now, today?

01:47It is what it is, Harper.

01:48Swarmer's been better.

01:49And it's exciting, and it's awesome.

01:51So we want to hear from you, obviously, you know, if you were at that game and playing

01:54better, too, last night, I mean, Swarmer was just incredible, no doubt about it.

02:01But hey, Brandon Marsh had a couple of hits last night, guys, JT Real Muto, we were worried

02:08about him.

02:09Yeah, Bryson Stott.

02:10Johan Rojas, some huge bats.

02:11Yes, no question.

02:13And so it does feel like the offensive approach, not just for Kyle Swarmer, but for the team,

02:22we were battling and it felt familiar, not recently familiar, but familiar back before

02:29the All-Star break when we knew that no matter how distant it got, no matter how far that

02:35thing got away, it usually didn't get away too far because our starting pitching was

02:38so good, but we knew we always had a chance.

02:41We knew we were in every game.

02:44That gaze that our players had last night while they were behind, while they were trailing,

02:49they knew they were still in it if they worked those at-bats, which is exactly the way it

02:54transpired.

02:55And notable, obviously, that it's a few hours after the Phillies held a team meeting.

02:58Now, we can't tell you a thousand percent they held a team meeting because no one's

03:01saying it on the record, but based on the tea leaves and the reporting, everyone's like,

03:06yeah, we think they had a team meeting.

03:08We think they had a team meeting.

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