PHILADELPHIA -- Minutes after their 2023 season ended on Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park, the Marlins looked on from the dugout railing as the Phillies celebrated their National League Wild Card Series sweep. It took 20 years for the Marlins to return to the postseason during a 162-game season.

PHILADELPHIA -- There’s a new standard for Marlins baseball, so how does the organization go about exceeding it? Not long after the Marlins’ 7-1 loss to the Phillies in Game 2 of the National League Wild Card Series on Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park, manager Skip Schumaker and his

Some very bright minds have been rendered ridiculous when trying to surmise anything of substance from small numbers of baseball games. The stakes might be immense within the pulse of the postseason, but, when you get right down to it, these are still short series, which is to say anything

PHILADELPHIA -- Bryson Stott leaned back and watched. He said he never pimps home runs because he never hits them far enough, but he could not help but admire the one he hit Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park. Stott's sixth-inning grand slam locked up a 7-1 victory over Miami

PHILADELPHIA -- With the Marlins’ 2023 season on the line, it won’t be reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara, rookie phenom Eury Pérez or high-octane lefty Jesús Luzardo on the mound.

PHILADELPHIA -- Let’s start with this: Nick Castellanos unconditionally loves his Phillies teammates. So, no, Castellanos was not giving his friends the one-bird salute after he dropped a double down the right-field line in the fourth inning of Tuesday night’s 4-1 victory over Miami in Game 1 of the NL

The best part of the MLB playoffs is how much one day can change everything. Yesterday, we were talking about how the Rays had been rolling the final week of the season, how well the Brewers were set up for October, and how the Twins seemingly were never going to

PHILADELPHIA -- The 2023 Marlins have defied the odds all season long. They will need to do so again in their National League Wild Card Series against the reigning NL champion Phillies. Miami left-hander Jesús Luzardo gave up three runs on eight hits over four innings, while the bats fell

PHILADELPHIA -- Zack Wheeler popped out of the Phillies' clubhouse late Tuesday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park to watch batting practice and chat. He perched on the top step of the dugout and leaned against the railing for at least a half hour before Game 1 of the NL Wild

PHILADELPHIA -- With the way his season started, it would have been hard to envision Brandon Marsh being left out of the Phillies' starting lineup for a postseason game.

Nothing -- and no one, for that matter -- was stopping Bryce Harper from scoring a pivotal insurance run on Tuesday night. Not even Phillies third-base coach Dusty Wathan.

PHILADELPHIA -- The Marlins finalized their roster for the National League Wild Card Series against the Phillies on Tuesday morning ahead of Game 1 at Citizens Bank Park, selecting 12 pitchers (seven left-handers and five right-handers) and 14 position players for the best-of-three matchup.

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies will carry 12 pitchers and an extra right-handed bat to counter Miami's left-heavy pitching staff in the National League Wild Card Series. The team announced its 26-man roster on Tuesday morning ahead of Game 1 at Citizens Bank Park. Right-hander Michael Lorenzen did not make the

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PHILADELPHIA -- Eleven months later, the memory lingers. A group of Phillies had huddled together in a corner of the visitors’ clubhouse at Minute Maid Park following their loss to Houston in Game 6 of the 2022 World Series. Their season finished, players sipped beers as they rehashed their wildly

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The playoffs … are here. Nearly every night for the next month, there will be baseball with the highest possible stakes, games played of titanic magnitude. And these will be played all day. This is the fun part. This is what you were waiting for. • 2023 Wild Card Series

PHILADELPHIA -- Last winter, a coach from another team called Phillies manager Rob Thomson to relive his postseason experience at Citizens Bank Park. He called baseball in Philadelphia “four hours of hell.” Thomson expects to return to that inhospitable place, beginning Tuesday with Game 1 of the NL Wild Card

The Phillies lost the season series against the Marlins by a slim 7-6 margin, though Philadelphia outscored Miami 64-55 in those 13 games. When they take the field Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park to open the best-of-three National League Wild Card Series, the Phillies will be looking to start

PHILADELPHIA -- Bryce Harper needed to make a call. He homered into the home bullpen at Citizens Bank Park on July 15, but he forgot to show love to Phillies relievers as he rounded first base. So after Harper touched home plate, he picked up the phone in the dugout

NEW YORK -- It was the final game of the regular season on Sunday at Citi Field and the Phillies were able to pick up their 90th victory by beating the Mets, 9-1. It’s the first time since 2011 that Philadelphia reached that 90-win plateau. The score was tied at

PHILADELPHIA -- The greatest game of Skip Schumaker’s life changed everything. For the Cardinals, who won the World Series. For the Phillies, who would not play another postseason game for 11 years. For Roy Halladay and Chris Carpenter, who were never the same pitchers. Schumaker’s Marlins will play the Phillies

PHILADELPHIA -- Kim Ng knew what was at stake when the Marlins hired her as general manager in November 2020, becoming the first woman to serve in that capacity for any major professional men's team in North American sports. Being a pioneer comes with immense pressure. Should Miami flounder in