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@Brink_Thinker The thought process

@TalkinBaseball_ The braves are 9-11 in June. What homer put them in 2nd??!

Everybody hates their team right now

@BBGreatMoments Not quite. How to break Cy Young's win record: - Get called up and pitch a full season when you are 18 -Win 20 games every year until you are 45 -Win 11 games at 46

The Most Untouchable Record in Baseball History

@SchwarbsMuse Is that so, Keith?

@JamieApody The face when you just want to go home, have a beer and go to bed.

Here’s the scene from the stands at Citi Field tonight where my husband and son, in Phillies gear, captured this delightful video of Mets fans showing their thoughts on the team’s GM 🤣 Stadium security not a fan of freedom of speech? #Mets #nyc #stearns #baseball

Jazz missed the tag by half a lollipop.

@Phils215 Im pretty sure that, if we do, the Braves will be the first team in MLB history to have a 10 game lead and lose it before the All Star break.

Do you genuinely believe the Phillies can catch the Braves by the All Star break?

Just checking scores before be….. GOOD LORD WHAT HAPPENED

@AdolisMuse All that staring for a fly out. He’s a Met all right.

HAVE A NICE SHUFFLE BACK TO THE DUGOUT JUAN SODA FATTY😭

Postgame 2-1 Phillies Win Quality pitching duel W tonight - Wheeler had a dominant 7 innings tonight. - Derek Hill continues to impress. Wild catch to save a run. - Harper and Turner had great nights at the plate. - Turner’s fielding continues to be bad. - Trea had the 5thmost errors for a shortstop in the league. Yikes. Tomorrow Rangel is slated to start. Alan had a promising first start. Hopefully he can build off of that. #Phillies #RingTheBell

The Mets season condensed in a video

Here is Juan Soto in his natural habitat. Watching what he thinks is a homerun turn into a fly out.

@jorgecastillo @espn It's a bit surprising that it took this long. The Phillies had a near identical record when they fired their manager and made Don Mattingly their interim manager. Since then, they have had a top 5 record in baseball.

Our @espn story on the Mets firing manager Carlos Mendoza after a 34-47 start to the season. espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

Pregame Phillies vs Mets 7:10 PM Probable Starters: Zach Wheeler (8-1 2.11 ERA)vs Zach Thornton (0-1 8.31 ERA) -Mets have been fairly successful against Wheeler in the past -Phillies have not matched up against Zach Thornton. His one start in the majors was awful. Hitters to watch vs Wheeler - Juan Soto .275 2HR .879 OPS - Brett Baty .286 1HR .786 OPS - Francisco Lindor .265 1HR .738 OPS Score early, score often. Or just wait until the 9th inning and score 8 runs. #Phillies #RingTheBell

You won a World Series after Bryce left. Good for you. You've been a basement dweller organization ever since. Why did he leave exactly? He walked in free agency for $330 million and real contention. Meanwhile your owners spent 20 years handing most TV revenue to the Orioles just to exist in D.C., then had to beg MLB to finally get their own deal. Bryce, Trea and the rest saw the writing: no sustained money, no sustained winning. Clown organization.

Washington D.C. radio hosts JP Finlay and Brian Mitchell react to Bryce Harper being upset for getting booed by Nationals fans: "Once he left, he has zero World Series rings despite being on a Phillies team that is loaded and spends a lot. And little Bryce is mad that people are booing him." (via @1067theFan)

The real question is what took them so long?

@FoulTerritoryTV This did not help them in the ninth inning when Bryce Harper exercised his paternal rights over the Nationals yet again.

The Nationals had a strike em out, throw em out double play that was completed by an ABS challenge and a replay review. 👀

@JonHeyman The Mets had 4 fewer errors tonight than they did last night. That's some quality defensive improvement.

The strange thing is, the Mets emphasized defensive improvement

Meanwhile, on the other side of town…

@BNightengale The fact that it was Bryce Harper who blew the game open had to sting like lemon juice in an open wound. That Nationals bullpen is going to have nightmares about this series for weeks.

This time the Phillies didn’t wait until 2 outs and 2 strikes in the 9th, and simply exploded for 5 runs in the 9th to turn a 5-5 tie into a 10-5 rout over the Washington Nationals.

@JeffPassan @DavidPurdum As much money as the league makes from gambling this is going to be a non starters for the owners. The more that comes out, the further it seems that these two side are from any kind of semi-agreement. Sadly, a lockout is borderline inevitable at this point.

The Major League Baseball Players Association wants to pursue a ban on all MLB-related prop bets, aiming to combat harassment from disgruntled gamblers, a source told ESPN. Story about its proposal Thursday to MLB, free and unlocked, with @DavidPurdum: espn.com/espn/betting/s…