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With Phillies' No. 5 starter issue (almost) over, how will playoff rotation shake out?

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September 20, 2024
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As someone who typically gets far too upset about 1 of 162 during the summer months, Thursday’s 10-6 Phillies loss in Queens did not even register on the normal overreaction scale.
Part of that unusually Zen mindset was due to the Phillies’ bats waking up for the first time in a few days. In a game that felt hopeless, the lineup fought back. They battled. But the main argument for staying even-keeled: How can anyone really get that worked up about a game you already wrote off?
Statistically, Taijuan Walker finds more barrels than pretty much any other pitcher in baseball. And he did just that in the fourth inning on Thursday, when Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez launched a 421-foot moonshot i...

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