Phils Overcome Baseball Gods

When stuff like this happens, you start to think that the baseball gods have conspired against your team. I mean, Steven Matz literally pulled a doubleplay ball out of his butt.

But that was in the 5th inning, with the Phillies trailing the Mets 2-0. The Phils scored 5 in the 6th and beat the Mets, 5-2. And the Braves lost. So the Phils enter Wednesday 5.5 games behind the Braves with 12 games left. As manager Gabe Kapler has said in the last few days, the Phils still have a seat at the table and 1 chip left.

And I want to thank everyone who takes a couple of minutes to read and interact with the blog on a regular basis. We just topped 25,000 hits. I'm still amazed that anyone wants to read this drivel. But I'm really glad you do.