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Meteorologists agree: Rain aside, game should be ‘playable’
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It’s not going to be a beautiful day for baseball, but meteorologists concur with Major League Baseball’s conclusion that conditions will be “playable” for Game 5 of the Phillies-Padres series.
Rain is likely during the game, but “it looks very light,” said Ray Martin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.
Bill Deger, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc., and a lifelong Phillies fan who remembers the ugly conditions that marred 1993 and 2008 World Series games in Philly, agreed. He said that like a light-hitting utility player, the rains on Sunday might be “pesky” but shouldn’t be a show-stopper.
A coastal storm was spreading rain south to north, but at noon Deger noted that “there’s not really a solid area of rain” to the south of the region.
Skies will be slate gray, and temperatures will be on the chilly side, in the low to mid-60s in South Philly.
“It’s not going to be a nice afternoon,” said Martin.
Deger added that might be especially true for the hitters, with a decent wind from the northeast blowing almost straight in from centerfield. Not to mention the fact that the Phillies (Zach Wheeler) and Astros (Yu Darvish) will have their aces on the mound, and the hitters might be arm-weary after Saturday night.
He said that in terms of weather issues, Sunday night’s Game 4 of the playoff series between the Houston Astros and Yankees in New York, might in serious trouble.
Down 3-0, the Yanks might not mind a break.
— Anthony R. Wood
4 hours ago
A Phillies Game 5 clincher impacted by rain? Where have we seen that before?
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Everyone in Philly is hoping to see the Phillies clinch a World Series berth on Sunday, but Mother Nature may have something to say about that. And Philadelphians are especially sensitive to weather impacting their team’s game. We have the Fog Bowl, the Snow Bowl, and, of course, a three day-long World Series clincher.
Back in 2018, to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Phillies’ 2008 World Series victory, Scott Lauber and Bob Brookover decided to take a look back at one of the strangest — if not the strangest — World Series finishes of all time. Here’s how some key figures from that series remember the game that started on Monday, took a day off on Tuesday, and eventually ended on Wednesday, with the Phillies and city celebrating their first title since 1980.
COLE HAMELS, PHILLIES STARTING PITCHER: “We could win it, and you want to win it at home. I felt like I was really dialed in. It’s just very unusual to have the type of weather that we were having just for the fact that it kept getting worse and you know baseball is not played in this type of weather. You can’t train; you can’t prepare for any of this. I felt like it was just don’t let the weather affect what I’m trying to do and trying to accomplish. But it got worse and worse.”
SHANE VICTORINO, PHILLIES CENTER FIELDER: “It was one of the coldest times in my career. I think it was the bottom of the fifth. It was the coldest. I remember being in the outfield and I didn’t have sleeves on that night, and I was like, ‘Man, it’s miserable.’ I looked at my arms and it was starting to, like, freeze on my arms. I remember looking at the field and thinking if any ball is hit here, it’s not going to go nowhere. It’s going to basically stop in the infield.”
CHASE UTLEY, PHILLIES SECOND BASEMAN: “As a player, you obviously recognize how bad the field is as far as the playing conditions. You would hate that the field could determine the outcome of a game, so one part of me is thinking, ‘What are we doing, why are we still playing, and we should be complaining to the umpire.’ The reason I didn’t really complain to the umpires was because Cole was pitching so well. I knew if we stopped playing, he would stop pitching, and we still had half the game to go. I was torn between what to really do, but he was pitching so well I just didn’t want to say a word.”
HAMELS: “It got a little bit more difficult to be able to throw certain pitches, and I think that was the frustrating part. I couldn’t grip a curveball, and the change-up was starting to slip. And I just didn’t want to put myself into counts where I was 2-1, 2-0, 3-1. So you’re just trying to sneak by. You’re trying to throw certain pitches just to let them know you have it. But I knew I was starting to eliminate pitches that I could throw because I could not grip them. I was just hoping that the hitters weren’t going to clue in on that because, if they did, then they knew exactly what was coming — fastballs. Seeing that pop-up that Jimmy [Rollins] couldn’t even catch because it was raining so hard [in the fifth inning], you’re waiting for a disaster to happen. I think the whole time we were all looking at each other and going, ‘What is going on?’ "
RYAN HOWARD, PHILLIES FIRST BASEMAN: “It had to be one of the coldest games I ever played in. The wind went right through you. In that sixth inning, Cole tried to pick off B.J. Upton, and when I went to throw the ball back to him, I couldn’t feel my hands. I didn’t know how Cole was doing it.”
The weather isn’t expected to be that bad today, but it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on. And be sure to click over here to read our full oral history of that wild Game 5.
— Matt Mullin
5 hours ago
Padres Game 5 lineup against Zack Wheeler
Jurickson Profar (S) LF
Juan Soto (L) RF
Manny Machado (R) 3B
Jake Cronenworth (L) 2B
Josh Bell (S) DH
Brandon Drury (R) 1B
Ha-Seong Kim (R) SS
Trent Grisham (L) CF
Austin Nola (R) C
— Rob Tornoe
5 hours ago
Report: Phillies-Padres ‘planning to start on time’
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Tarp on the field at Citizens Bank Park
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Phillies try to break Oct. 23 losing streak
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For Phillies’ fans, Oct. 23 is not a date for fond postseason memories. Here is a recap of what has happened on this date:
1993 – The Phillies’ erase a 5-1 deficit to take a 6-5 lead into the ninth inning of Game 6 of the World Series against the host Toronto Blue Jays. Joe Carter took care of the rest with a walk-off homer that gave the Jays their first and only World Series title.
2008 – After the Rays jumped out to a 4-0 lead in Game 2 of the World Series in Tampa Bay, Eric Bruntlett hit an eighth inning homer and Phils scored a run on an error in the ninth. But the Rays held on even the series at 1-1.
2010 – Juan Uribe hit a tie-breaking homer in the eighth, and a potential rally ended with a painful whimper in the ninth as Ryan Howard took a called third strike with two runners on base. The visiting San Francisco Giants would go on to claim the first of three World Series titles in a five-year period, one more than the Phillies have won in their 140-year history.
— Anthony R. Wood
6 hours ago
Phillies-Padres are meeting to discuss the weather
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Phillies lineup remains unchanged for Game 5
Kyle Schwarber (L) LF
Rhys Hoskins (R) 1B
J.T. Realmuto (R) C
Bryce Harper (L) DH
Nick Castellanos (R) RF
Alec Bohm (R) 3B
Bryson Stott (L) SS
Jean Segura (R) 2B
Brandon Marsh (L) CF
— Rob Tornoe
6 hours ago
Ahead of Game 5, thinking back to a Phillies spring training photo
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Early one morning, back in late March, the five sluggers pulled on red pinstriped uniforms, picked up bats, and walked on the field at the Phillies’ spring-training ballpark in Clearwater, Fla.
It was impossible not to think of that photo shoot Saturday night.
This was how the Phillies were supposed to win. This was how they were built. No deficit would be insurmountable for an offense led by holdovers Rhys Hoskins and J.T. Realmuto, newcomers Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos, and 2021 National League MVP Bryce Harper. They would outslug everything — porous defense, a lack of pitching depth, whatever deficiency you could think of.
Pick your nickname: Broad Street Bashers. Sluggers of the Schuylkill. Macho Row 2.0.
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It didn’t play out that way. Not exactly. Harper missed the summer with a broken left thumb. Castellanos had the worst season of his career. Realmuto struggled for two months before carrying the Phillies through the middle of the season. Hoskins ran typically hot and cold.
But in Game 4 of the NL Championship Series, they came together to bring the Phillies back from a four-run first-inning deficit by combining to go 9-for-18 with three doubles, four homers, and nine RBIs in a 10-6 victory that pushed them to the threshold of the franchise’s eight pennant and first World Series appearance since 2009.
“If you think about the year, we haven’t had those five guys together all that much,” manager Rob Thomson said. “Coming down the stretch, we finally got them all together. [Saturday] is like one of those nights where you think, that’s what you have when you put it together in spring training.”
They have the picture to prove it.
— Scott Lauber
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‘My son played for the Padres. I booed him, too.’
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Rain still in the forecast for Phillies-Padres Game 5
A coastal storm already is throwing back rain at the Jersey Shore and it looks like that rain will make its way to South Philly by midafternoon, if not sooner.
But even if it does, postseason history suggests that the Phillies and Padres will play Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, scheduled to start at 2:37 p.m. Sunday.
Rain could start as early as noon, said Cameron Wunderlin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, but the odds jump to 50-50 at game time and to 75-25 in rain’s favor by 5 p.m.
However, if you’re betting on rain amounts, Wunderlin suggests taking the under.
“This is generally a light rainfall,” he said, with no more than a tenth of an inch expected by 6 p.m.
If that holds, the Phillies have played in worse in the post-season in Philly.
They played in a steady rain in the 1977 playoff game in which they were eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers. (That was the day after the infamous “Black Friday” loss, and we’ll spare the long-suffering from recounting the details.)
They slogged through a virtual monsoon in 1993 in a World Series game they lost to the Toronto Blue Jays, 15-14.
And the clincher of the 2008 World Series victory over the Tampa Bay Rays was started unwisely during a nor’easter on a Monday, was suspended, and not completed until the following Wednesday night.
In any event, it will be a dreary afternoon, but with a Zack Wheeler-Yu Darvish friendly wind blowing in from the northeast.
If Game 5 on Sunday ends up being rained out, it would be rescheduled for Monday. But then MLB would have to add a day to the NLCS, pushing it to Wednesday if a Game 7 becomes necessary. The World Series is scheduled to begin on Friday.
— Anthony R. Wood
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Astros look to sweep the Yankees in ALCS
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The Phillies defeated the Houston Astros back on Oct. 3 to punch a ticket into the MLB playoffs. Now it’s looking like they could face each other again in the World Series.
The Astros hold a 3-0 lead over the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series, and look to complete the sweep tonight in Yankees Stadium at 7:07 p.m. The game will air on TBS.
The Bronx not-so-Bombers have batted just .161 during the playoffs, and have scored just four runs through the first three games of the ALCS. Yankees batters have struck out 94 times in 248 postseason at-bats.
— Rob Tornoe
10 hours ago
If rain postpones Game 5, it would favor the Phillies
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With rain in the forecast for Game 5 on Sunday afternoon, the game might be postponed until Monday.
That would mean Phillies ace Zack Wheeler would get an extra day of rest for the clincher; the Phils lead, 3-1. Wheeler was shut down twice in the past 10 months as a precaution because he felt discomfort in his shoulder, then his forearm. Wheeler also fatigued in Game 1 and left after just 83 pitches.
It also would mean No. 2 starter Aaron Nola would get an extra day of rest, if there is a Game 6 back in San Diego. Nola has already thrown 222 1/3 innings this season, 10 more than his previous career high, set four years ago. Also, Nola has never pitched past the regular season. He looked tired when he got shelled in Game 2 in San Diego on Wednesday.
The Phillies’ most potent postseason weapon, other than Bryce Harper’s bat, also would benefit: The bullpen.
The bullpen has been a revelation.
It won Game 4 as much as anything; Bailey Falter, er, faltered, so the Phillies got only two outs from him. The bullpen delivered 8 1/3 innings of two-run ball, and somehow came away in a good position.
Both Seranthony Dominguez and Jose Alvarado, the righty-lefty closer duo who did not pitch (and would not have pitched) Saturday, would be pitching on two days’ rest if the series resumes Monday. Alvarado’s 62 innings, counting his minor-league stint, are the most he’s thrown in four seasons. Dominguez has a long injury history, and he missed nearly a month, beginning Aug. 10, with tendinitis.
Finally, other key bullpen components who were used Saturday would get a day to recover. That includes 37-year-old David Robertson, who missed most of the first two series with a calf injury but looked electric Saturday night, as well as Zach Eflin, who pitched two days in a row. Eflin, the former No. 5 starter, missed nearly three months this season due to a chronic knee condition. Every minute of rest he gets is important.
— Marcus Hayes
10 hours ago
Zack Wheeler gets the chance to pitch the Phillies into the World Series
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Zack Wheeler couldn’t lie. He chewed on this scenario, rolled it around his brain, and imagined what it may look, sound, and feel like to take the ball and scale the mound with a chance to pitch the Phillies into the World Series.
“Yeah, I have thought about it a little bit,” he said. “That would be pretty cool.”
Wheeler didn’t wait until after Saturday night’s instant classic, 10-6 victory over the San Diego Padres in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series to make that admission. It dawned on him a few days ago.
The Phillies got home Thursday after splitting the series’ first two games in San Diego. He wasn’t scheduled to pitch again until Game 5 on Sunday. If they could somehow win Friday and Saturday nights, if they could harness the energy from the ear-splitting crowd noise at raucous Citizens Bank Park, they could get to Wheeler with a chance to wrap up the series.
Wouldn’t that be something?
» READ MORE: Zack Wheeler gets a ‘pretty cool’ chance to pitch the Phillies into the World Series at home
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Phillies-Padres Game 5: How to watch and stream
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What channel is Phillies-Padres on?
Phillies-Padres Game 5 is scheduled to begin at 2:37 p.m. Eastern on FS1.
Calling the series for Fox is play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and analyst John Smoltz, who have become familiar voices to Phillies fans after calling both their wild-card and divisional round games, and all three games during the NLCS. Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci will be reporting from the field at Citizens Bank Park.
On 94.1 WIP, Phillies announcers Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen will once again handle play-calling duties. Rejoining them on Sunday is Tom McCarthy, the team’s TV voice on NBC Sports Philadelphia, who will help call the fifth and sixth innings. McCarthy wasn’t in the booth on Saturday because he was attending his son’s wedding.
Bill Kulik and Oscar Budejen will broadcast Phillies-Padres in Spanish on La Unika 1680 AM. The game will also air on TV in Spanish on Fox Deportes, with Adrian Garcia Marquez and Edgar Gonzalez on the call.
Where can I stream Phillies-Padres?
Phillies-Padres will stream on the Fox Sports app, though it will only be available to those with a cable subscription.
The game will also stream on any so-called skinny bundle that carries Fox, including fuboTV, YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, and DirecTV Stream. Most offer a free trial.
» READ MORE: Phillies-Padres Game 5: Start time, channel, how to watch and stream MLB playoffs
— Rob Tornoe
10 hours ago
Full Phillies-Padres NLCS playoff schedule
Game 5: Padres at Phillies, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2:37 p.m., (FS1)
Game 6: Phillies at Padres, Monday, Oct. 24, 8:03 p.m., (FS1)*
Game 7: Phillies at Padres, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 8:03 p.m., (Fox, FS1)*
» READ MORE: Full 2022 MLB playoff schedule
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