All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. 2008 NLCS - Philadelphia Phillies over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-1) series statistics and schedule. They were on paper the best team in the division last year and they were supposed to win, and they didn't. The Phillies, by winning, wrote something different from the same old story. For the first time since 1993, they are headed to the World Series. During the season, they were managed by Charlie Manuel. 2008 NL Division Series - Philadelphia Phillies over Milwaukee Brewers (3-1) series statistics and schedule.
Ryan Howard ended his home run drought, hitting his first round-tripper since the end of September.
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2008 World Series - Philadelphia Phillies over Tampa Bay Rays (4-1) series statistics and schedule. We present them here for purely educational purposes.
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The Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 season was the 126th in the history of the franchise. The Phillies opened the season by posting their first winning April since 2003. One, there are four other teams in our division who are going to make sure that doesn't happen, and two, has anyone ever heard of plagiarism? Philadelphia Phillies vs. Milwaukee Brewers: Phillies win series, … Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. "Moyer, throwing 81-83 mph two-seamers and 74-76 mph changeups with the occasional breaking ball, needs a compliant, overeager opponent to buy into his deception."
Many thanks to him. - unknown, for minors * - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? The 2008 National League Division Series, the opening round of the 2008 National League playoffs, began on Wednesday, October 1 and ended on Sunday, October 5, with the champions of the three NL divisions and one wild card team participating in two best-of-five series. Philadelphia starter Jamie Moyer turned in his first strong performance of the post-season, allowing three runs over 6⅓ innings. Your Account; Logout; Login; Create Account ; via Sports Logos.net. He's a quiet guy, so it was probably shocking when he said it.
The teams split their season series, with the home team sweeping their two four-game series in August. Rollins, Hamels lead Phillies back to World Series; Stark: New group of Phillies … It will be the sixth trip to the Series for the Phillies, who won it in 1980. More like, 'Wow, he finally said something because he's a leader on that team and you definitely need to be a vocal leader. • The Phillies advanced to World Series for first time since 1993 and improved to 4-0 in LCS closeout games. The 2008 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the 2008 National League playoffs, was a best-of-seven baseball game series.
Chase Utley and Carlos Ruiz also hit home runs for the Phillies, while Carl Crawford and Dioner Navarro contributed a double each for the Rays. Beginning this Monday, June 1, NBC Sports Philadelphia will re-air the Phillies' entire 2008 playoff run — all 14 games — along with two specials and a replay of the '08 parade.
The series matched the NL West Champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the NL East Champion Philadelphia Phillies, who had home field advantage for this series due to their better regular-season record. 2007 Season 2009 Season. 2008 NL Division Series - Philadelphia Phillies over Milwaukee Brewers (3-1) series statistics and schedule. The team finished with a regular season record of 92–70, first in the National League East. That was pretty good, especially coming from him. Tampa Bay cut the lead in half in the fourth inning; Carlos Peña doubled and was batted in on Under normal conditions, games are considered to be official games after five innings, or four and a half if the home team is leading at that point.The curse ended on October 29, 2008 when the Phillies won the World Series, a year and four months after a statuette of the William Penn figure atop City Hall was affixed to the final beam put in place during the June 2007 topping-off of the The Philadelphia chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) presented its The Phillies are the only team that has faced every team in a current division (AL East) in World Series play: Baltimore (1983), Boston (1915), New York (1950, 2009), Tampa Bay (2008), and Toronto (1993). We present them here for purely educational purposes. In the post-season, the Phillies won the World Series; this was the first major sports championship for Philadelphia since the 76ers swept the 1983 NBA Finals.
* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? The Phillies played in their first Fall Classic in Philadelphia scored the first runs of the series when Chase Utley hit a Tampa starter James Shields shut down the Phillies lineup, scattering seven hits and allowing no runs in 5⅔ innings of work. Many thanks to him.
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Finally, a new chapter is being written in Philadelphia. After the Rays tied the game in the top of the eighth, the Phillies loaded the bases on two intentional walks with The Phillies' offensive woes seemed in the distant past as the lineup broke out in a big way during Game 4.