Small victories, large defeats.
After an unideal opening series against the Rangers, the Phillies will get their first look at a National League East opponent this season. And in what is hopefully good news, it’s the NL East opponent that most pundits expect will finish last in the division. Washington Nationals Record: 2-1 (Second place in National League East) […]
The beginning of a baseball season is one that is full of unknown. How are all of the changes made over the offseason going to take? How will those new players take to their new surroundings in Philadelphia? Then the games are played and all of that goes out the window. Who made good impressions, […]
Ok, the first three games are out of the way. There are impressions that have been made, things we liked, things we didn’t like. There isn’t much here to say in terms of analysis since all of the instant takes will be varied, but what is your gut reaction to the team after this first […]
Yeah, I wasn’t feeling that weekend series against the Rangers. “Flat” would be a decent enough adjective to describe them, which is surprising considering they were opening at home. Time to move on. On to the links. Phillies news: MLB news:
Baseball seems to have the longest offseason around. If you have a team that you follow that isn’t in the playoffs (or gets bounced from the playoffs quickly), it feels like forever until Opening Day. That wait brings hope, promise and hype that this will be the season a championship parade is the endgame. Opening […]
Now that the Phillies’ dreams of an undefeated season have been dashed, they’ll have to settle for going for a series victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday. Jesus Luzardo gets the start for the Phillies. The lefthander was 15-7 with a 3.92 ERA in 2025. MacKenzie Gore will be making his Rangers debut after […]
This season brings no shortage of delicious new food and drink items to our fair ballpark. Sánchez Sliders are flying off the shelves, Luzardo’s Sweeper cheesesteak is as delicious as its namesake is hard to hit, and Schwarbomb sundaes are delighting everyone except for dietitians. But not every dish makes it from the drawing board […]
One of the running storylines through spring training was that J.T. Realmuto was going to be good at challenges with the ABS system coming into place for the 2026 MLB season. Saturday, he was two for two in the final frames. Yesterday’s game wasn’t the only one that made some news with the ABS system. […]
Somewhere, at some point, Bob Uecker would have been proud of that game yesterday. Except for that whole getting a second hit thing in the ninth inning. Thanks, Alec, for ruining my joke for today. And, you know, the rest of the team for making it a ballgame. On to the links. Phillies news: MLB […]
After eight innings of struggling to muster consistent at-bats against a variety of Texas Rangers pitchers, they woke up in the ninth because the final three outs are always the hardest ones to get. With a three-nothing Rangers lead heading into the ninth, the Phillies had Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, and Alec Bohm due up […]
Here are the lineups. For the Phillies: For the Rangers: Let’s talk about it.
The Phillies opened the season with three pitchers on the injured list – Zack Wheeler, Orion Kerkering and Max Lazar. We kind of have an idea that at least Wheeler and Kerkering are going to be back sooner rather than later since they have already begun rehab assignments in Lehigh Valley. Lazar’s status is a […]
Now that we have baseball back today, we have to talk about this whole “day off after a game” Opening Day thing. I get it. MLB is scared of opening rainouts and wants a buffer day just in case. However, I am impatient and I want games all the time. Doubleheaders even! Maybe this will […]
Cristopher Sanchez was phenomenal during Thursday’s season opener against Texas. Seeing him put up six innings of shutout baseball is more and more becoming the normal expectation for a start of his, a mark of not only an exceptional player development success, but also the work put in by Sanchez to get to that point. […]
A dynamic start from their ace. Two stars clubbing huge home runs. A rookie making a splashy debut. Some drama late, exterminated by their closer. Yep, 2026 Opening Day had pretty much everything you wanted to see from the Philadelphia Phillies. On a gorgeous spring day at Citizens Bank Park, a lot of things went […]
You can’t step into the same batter’s box twice. Well, you can— the rulebook is rather stringent about what qualities a batter’s box has to have. But we’re talking in a Heraclitean sense here. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the batter’s box remains the same, but the batter himself does not. […]
The first full day of the 2026 MLB season is in the books, and it couldn’t have gone much better for the Phillies. They won 5-3, got big home runs from Kyle Schwarber and Alec Bohm, got an ace like performance from Cristopher Sánchez, saw Justin Crawford collect two hits, and saw Jhoan Duran come […]
Opening Day is over. It was a joyous occasion, with only a brief bullpen blip to mar the otherwise unblemished affair. Now, an off day. We’ll have to do with watching non-Phillies clubs. But Phillies baseball, proper baseball, will return tomorrow. Onto the links. Phillies news: Alec Bohm is suing his parents over alleged mismanagement […]
Thursday’s Opening Day game against the Texas Rangers had everything a Phillies fan could want: A Schwarbomb, an impressive debut from a rookie, filthy pitching from Cristopher Sanchez, and a way-too-interesting ninth inning. Put it all together, and the Phillies improved to 1-0 on the season with a 5-3 win. After Sanchez worked around two […]
It’s opening day. It’s awesome. I hate Netflix. Lineup for the Phillies: For the Rangers: Prediction: Justin Crawford lays down a bunt hit in the 5th inning.
Opening Day! The 2026 season begins today for the two-time defending National League East champion Philadelphia Phillies. We’ve got 162 games to determine if they can make that a three-peat, and then hopefully advance to the ultimate goal of a World Series title. They’ll start things off with a relatively unfamiliar opponent from the American […]
Another season, another year of taking in Phillies games from one of the best ballparks in baseball…Citizens Bank Park. I don’t say that with hyperbole or sarcasm, I really do believe that. Each year before the season starts, the Phillies like to host media to show off its new offerings. These include both new ballpark […]
We are not afraid of your conventional wisdom. It is easy for people to make simple predictions that adhere to the safe, to the secure, to say “_____ will make the playoffs” and feel good and pat ourselves on the back. Yet we here at The Good Phight are the bold ones, the ones unafraid […]
As is tradition, we are pretty bad at this. That don’t mean we won’t keep trying until one of us gets it all correct! As we creep closer to opening day we get to display our optimism (some of us anyway) and predict how this upcoming season will unfold. As is customary, we split this […]
Usually, this question of the day part is where we ask a niche question about the team. Maybe it’s about someone’s approach at the plate, their recent work at that craft, or what you think about a player’s recent play. Today is simple. It being the Phillies’ home opener (and season opener), we’re looking for […]