The Phillies Show

What a Sunday at Citizens Bank Park. Major League Baseball announced before the game that Phillies left-hander José Alvarado was suspended 80 games for using a performance-enhancing substance. He will be ineligible for the postseason. It’s a major blow to a bullpen that has leaned heavily on Alvarado, who has been its best pitcher this season. What are the short-term and long-term answers for the...

Everybody should want Phillies infield coach Bobby Dickerson on their coaching staff. He is a long-time coach and manager in the big leagues and minor leagues, including stints with the Orioles, Padres and Phillies. He first joined the Phillies in 2019, then returned before the 2022 season. Dickerson is smart, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and tough. It’s what makes him a great coach. We ask him abo...

It looked like Aaron Nola’s early-season struggles were been behind him. After starting the season 0-5 with a 6.45 ERA, he had a 3.33 ERA in his last four starts. But in Game 2 of a doubleheader against St. Louis on Wednesday night, Nola suffered the worst start of his career. He allowed a career-high 12 hits, a career-high nine runs and tied a career-high three home runs allowed in a 14-7 loss. H...

The Phillies have won five consecutive series following Sunday night’s 3-0 victory over Cleveland. They are 11-3 since they lost their series opener in Chicago late last month. It’s the best record in baseball in that span. Kyle Schwarber is a big reason why. He hit two homers Sunday against the Guardians. He has hit 14 homers this season, which is tied with Aaron Judge for the most in baseball. H...

The Phillies have won four consecutive series following Wednesday night’s 7-0 victory over the Rays. Trea Turner homered, Johan Rojas dropped a nice bunt on a safety squeeze, Cristopher Sánchez tossed six scoreless innings and Taijuan Walker recorded a three-inning save. It’s the first save of his career. We talk about the game, but then get into your Phillies questions. Everything from Walker’s p...

The Phillies beat the Rays in Tuesday night’s series opener in Tampa, 8-4. We talk about Zack Wheeler’s fastball in another dominant performance, but we dig into three hot Phillies hitters, too. Everybody knows Kyle Schwarber is swinging a hot bat. He hit his fifth homer in seven games on Tuesday. Everybody knows Trea Turner is swinging a hot bat. He’s batting .391 in his last 15 games. But how ab...

The Phillies won two of three from Arizona this weekend at Citizens Bank Park. They have three consecutive series since getting swept in New York late last month. The offense is heating up. It is batting .276 with 13 home runs and an .806 OPS in the last eight games. But physical and mental errors keep popping up, and you wonder what might have happened in Sunday’s series finale if the Phillies pl...

The Phillies are 17-14 following Thursday night’s loss to the Nationals. If the season ended today, they’d be tied with Arizona for the third and final NL Wild Card. We talk about where the Phils are, and where they might be going in the coming months. Where is Taijuan Walker going? He’s probably going to the bullpen, even though he has pitched well in his first six starts. That’s because Ranger S...

Where do we even start? The Phillies won an absolutely crazy game on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park. They won on their first walk-off wild pitch since April 1993. A Phillies pitcher struck out the side after loading the bases with no outs in the eighth inning or later for the first time since 1968.  There were big hits and big mistakes in the field. We get into everything. We talk a little Sl...

The Phillies bounced back in a major way this weekend against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Now, can they build off it? The Phils lost on Friday, giving them a five-game losing streak and dropping them to .500. But they won the final two games of the series to head home at 15-13. The offense came up big on Saturday, scoring 10 runs. Aaron Nola came up big on Sunday, allowing only one run in seven inn...

MLB Network’s Mark DeRosa is one of baseball’s best analysts. His insights weekdays on “ MLB Central ” are must-see TV. DeRosa played college football and baseball at Penn, then spent 16 years in the big leagues. Those experiences brought him to MLB Network, then to twice manage Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, including next year. DeRosa spent time on Thursday with Ruben, Jim and Todd, dis...

It’s still early, but the Phillies can’t play like this forever. They need to get going. The Mets swept the Phillies this week at Citi Field. The Phils have lost 10 of their last 16 games. There are plenty of reasons why. The bullpen continues to struggle. There are cracks in the rotation with Aaron Nola 0-5 and Cristopher Sánchez’s left forearm hurting. The offense had just three extra-base hits...

The Phillies won this weekend’s series against the Marlins, but they let a sweep slip through their fingers in Sunday’s series finale. There are some good things going on: Bryson Stott, Bryce Harper, Jesús Luzardo and José Alvarado come to mind. There are some troubling things going on, too. Like, Jordan Romano and an underperforming bullpen. The guys dig into everything as well as preview this we...

Cristopher Sánchez became a trendy pick in the spring for a top five NL Cy Young Award finish. He pitched like one in Thursday’s 6-4 victory over the Giants. He struck out 12 batters, the most by a Phillies left-hander since Cole Hamels struck out 13 in his no-hitter against the Cubs in his final start for the organization in 2015. We discuss Sánchez’s dominance but also look at the Phillies’ jumb...

In case you missed it, Alec Bohm and Brandon Marsh have been going through a terrible start to the 2025 season. But both had important at-bats in Tuesday night’s 6-4 victory over the Giants. Marsh’s sacrifice fly in the second inning gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead. Bohm’s base hit in the sixth inning gave the Phillies the lead. Afterward, Harper had some philosophical thoughts about players struggli...

Everybody was riding high a week ago, then the Phillies went 2-4 in Atlanta and St. Louis. It ended with a 7-0 loss on Sunday in St. Louis. A lot of things didn’t go right for the Phillies on the road. Mostly, the offense lacked punch. One of the culprits was Brandon Marsh. He’s hitless in his last 26 at-bats.  We discuss the road trip, Marsh’s struggles and more. It’s “Best Week” by Manco & Manco...

Alec Bohm hit a rocket to Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies in his first at-bat on Thursday night in Atlanta. Albies caught it. Bohm flipped his bat. Bohm went 0 for 5 in the Phillies’ 4-2 loss in 11 innings at Truist Park. He is batting .160 with no home runs, three RBIs and a .356 OPS in his first 11 games. He is struggling. It shows. He has looked frustrated on the field. He twice declined to...

Edmundo Sosa made the catch of his life in the first inning on Tuesday night in Atlanta, but a huge mistake in left-center field involving both Sosa and center fielder Johan Rojas cost the Phillies the game. Ruben coached big league outfielders in Boston and New York. He breaks down everything that went wrong when they let a ball fall just feet in front of them, leading to a three-run homer from S...

Title: Beat L.A.: Phillies win series against “unbeatable” Dodgers Somebody asked J.T. Realmuto on Friday about playing the Dodgers and he joked that he heard they were “unbeatable.” Well, the Phillies handed L.A. its first two losses of the season in a series win at Citizens Bank Park. Does it mean anything in the long run? No, but it showed skeptics that the Phillies can not only hang with anybo...

The Phillies are 5-1 after Taijuan Walker pitched six scoreless innings on Thursday against the Rockies. It was a great day for Walker, whose mother cried tears of joy from the stands at Citizens Bank Park. It hasn’t been an easy year for Walker, who has been booed in Clearwater, Washington and Philadelphia in just the past couple weeks. Walker was more than just a good baseball story on Thursday....

The Phillies Show was LIVE from Citizens Bank Park before Thursday’s series finale against the Rockies. We had our Citizens Conversation with Phillies managing partner John Middleton. We ask him about World Series expectations, what he said to the team last month in Clearwater, Bryce Harper being a Phillie for life, the team’s ability to add payroll at the trade deadline to the tush push (that’s r...

The Phillies won their first series of the season, taking two of three against the Nationals in Washington. They could have swept the Nats with a victory on Sunday, but the offense struggled and Aaron Nola served up a couple home runs. Ruben, Jim and Todd break down the weekend, before Monday’s home opener against the Rockies at Citizens Bank Park. They talk Jesús Luzardo, Kyle Schwarber, Zack Whe...

The Phillies beat the Nationals in 10 innings on Opening Day, 7-3. 162-0 is still in play. We dissect Opening Day because who doesn’t love digging deep into the first game of the season and trying to figure out what it might mean moving forward? From Alec Bohm’s latest clutch hit to the nasty shadows at Nationals Park to Jordan Romano’s sluggish debut to Bryce Harper’s and Kyle Schwarber’s homers...

Opening Day is finally here. Do the Phillies have what it takes to win the World Series? We share our thoughts. We provide bold predictions, too. But Jim really gets us thinking by asking us to make our predictions on everything from Phillies wins to the exact date of Andrew Painter’s Phillies’ debut. This is the first anniversary of The Phillies Show. We share a few highlights from some of our fa...

The Phillies play their final Grapefruit League game on Monday in Clearwater. Afterward, they’re flying to Philadelphia. Opening Day is Thursday in DC. The roster is almost entirely set. Ranger Suárez is expected to open the season on the IL, moving Taijuan Walker into the rotation. The Phils claimed right-hander Carlos Hernández off waivers from Kansas City. He’ll take the last job in the bullpen...