Phillies were at risk of blowing comfortable wildcard lead.
The Phillies will play Game 1 in a best-of-three wildcard series on Tuesday in Atlanta against their NL East rivals, the Braves.
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Phillies were at risk of blowing comfortable wildcard lead. Their 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday clinched the final National League wildcard berth.
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Phillies were at risk of blowing comfortable wildcard lead.
Bryce Harper and Edmundo Sosa homered, and Zack Wheeler delivered like a Game 7 ace to bring the Philadelphia Phillies back from the brink of collapse and send them into the playoffs. Their 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday clinched the final National League wildcard berth.
The Phillies could have clinched a playoff berth as early as Wednesday before they lost four straight games and nearly coughed up their wildcard lead to Arizona.
The Phillies will play Game 1 in a best-of-three wildcard series on Tuesday in Atlanta against their NL East rivals, the Braves.
“It was kind of a living hell in slow motion,” Phillies managing partner and CEO John Middleton said of Philadelphia’s nervy last week.
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