00:0021 and 7 in the month of august that was the best in major league baseball we saw their pitching
00:05staff look a lot better number two in era in the month of august number three in opponent batting
00:11average number one in strikeouts tied for top four in whip and then you look at the offense
00:16the month of august ricky bow although they were 24th in home runs top three in run score top four
00:23in hits top two in doubles tied for the lead in walks number one in obp number two in batting
00:29average number three in ops i mean this team has really done a phenomenal job in august both with
00:36their pitching and their hitting has your expectations changed now you said you always
00:42thought they were playoff yes but do you now believe that this team and you kind of been saying this
00:47all
00:47along can go all the way to a world i've thought they could the whole time now i have not
00:52i'm a
00:53firm believer that you get in the playoffs that's where it happens and i know what i know what people
00:58think i'm i'm not ignorant to the fact that this team has not hit in the playoffs the last three
01:03years but this is a different year it's a different time it's a different approach by this team so i
01:11i
01:11truly believe that when you could manufacture runs in the playoffs that becomes a rather large thing
01:17think about this if they were hitting baseballs like they did like they're doing right now in the
01:23dodgers series last year that series ends up differently definitely you do not have to hit
01:28the ball out of the ballpark every time you put traffic on the base pass what's the the one thing
01:33that pitchers hate is when there's runners in scoring position why because you know one bad pitch and all
01:40of a sudden a gapper there's two runs in now another guy's in scoring position it is one of the
01:45worst
01:45feelings as a pitcher that that you could come up with and the phillies are doing the little things
01:50right not not running the bases they will never run the bases right because they're terrible base
01:55runners but what we have seen is plenty of traffic on the bases which means what a lot of chances
02:00with
02:01runners in scoring position and we've seen alec bohm step up we've seen bryson stott step up it
02:06the one thing that i've noticed is there is no reliance on one two three in the lineup anymore
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