Padres and Phillies will play each other in the NLCS, a breakdown

the Padres and the Phillies have ever

faced each other in the NLCS we've never

had this matchup before we've never had

a matchup of two teams that won less

than 90 games in the regular season in

the NLCS we've never had a match up with

two brothers whose last name Nola in the

NLCS had a bunch of other brothers never

know the brothers first times first time

we've had two teams who's uh nickname I

was gonna say mascot but nickname starts

with the same letter the Padres and the

Phillies their mascots are different

though their mascots are way different

the Philadelphia Phillies have been

around forever they're the oldest team

that's been in the same city with the

same name in all major U.S Sports

they've been around since like

1883 or some like that a baseball player

who invented a baseball had a lawyer

patting the baseball said hey let's get

a team together they got a team name

themselves the Quakers

then said oh that's kind of stinks let's

name ourselves the philadelphians and

the headline writers says that kind of

stinks it's really long so the Phillies

they became and the owner said and lets

them know who we are where we're from

which is true it does it'd be like the

New York New York New Yorkers or the San

Diego San diegans but they're not the

San Diego San diegans or the San Diego

Padres they've been

MLB since 1969 when the league expanded

there were a minor league team for like

30 years before then they are named

after the guys who came over from Spain

and converted all the natives and

quite frankly bad guys all right let's

get into the baseball here's what you

need to know the Padres they got a lot

of goose stuff going on if you haven't

been tuning into the postseason you're

gonna tune in now and you're like why

are there all these Goose things all

over the stadium well when they were

playing game one against the Dodgers

this ugly Goose flew on the field and

just kind of sat there got a front roast

ticket didn't pay for it if you want a

really good ticket see key code John Boy

playoffs get you 10 off doesn't matter

if you've used it already or not used it

you can use it again you can use it for

concerts for other sports John Boy

playoffs code 10. the goose used it he

got front row seats in the Outfield and

then the Dodgers they picked them up

threw them in a trash can

Padre said whoa

why'd you throw that goose out we liked

it so now they're goosing all the time

they got Goose stuff non-stop the Padres

also kind of do this thing where they

point

and then head tilt I don't know what

that's about we'll have to let the

comment section keep you up to date if

that means anything or stems from

anything the Phillies they do a tip of

the Hat

classic so there you go those are the

first things you need to be on the

lookout for as well as like I said in

the beginning there's two brothers

playing against each other that's a cool

storyline they're dab he's gonna be

nervous I wonder if he's gonna be

wearing this two jerseys again that's

really the last time they played

tough time to be a dad both your sons in

the NLCS

brutal

we also got Manny Machado and Bryce

Harper two kids that came into League at

19 years old phenoms free agents at 26

years old went to these two teams for

the Long Haul got paid big money

that's a fun storyline also that's Soto

he's been struggling a little bit but I

love Soto I love the soda Shuffle I'm

all about it

Bryce Harper's hot

super hot nice beard good hair and

hitting the ball like crazy absolutely

crazy this post season the Phillies what

they need to do is they need to get the

runners on base for Harper at bat so the

Padres can't pitch around him they have

to come after him and then when he does

get hits run score that wasn't happening

for the first couple games but the last

two games Rhys Hoskins schwarber they

started to get things going start to get

on base so if they're getting on base

and Harper's hitting them in that's kind

of the recipe for the Phillies the

Phillies had seven Innings where they

scored multiple runs the Padres only had

three the Phillies had like five innings

where they scored three or more runs now

they didn't face the same pitching that

the Padres face the Padres had to go

through the Mets and then the Dodgers

two really good pitching staffs they

played close games that timely hits they

scored in a lot of innings a lot of solo

run Innings but all that adds up to

getting the ball to the bullpen winning

the game Padres in close games Phillies

have been winning big games Phillies

with the bats Padres with the pitching

and the defense and the timely hits

Phillies not so much with the defense be

on the lookout for that it's a team

where balls in play can hurt them a

little bit I like the Padres defense a

lot throughout the season I've been

talking about how I like their defense I

thought they were sharp and crisp and

fun and fast and all of that so I'm

pretty into that other thing these two

teams have in common right now is the

eight hole hitters have been going

absolutely crazy Gene Segura for the

Phillies

Trent Grisham for the Padres both down

in the eight Hall but hitting the crap

out of the ball Trent Grisham has a 381

batting average Jean Segura has a 389

batting average Grisham has a 519 on

base percentage that's crazy and Segura

476 so far in the postseason so I'm

interested to see if they get shuffled

in the lineup if you get guys ahead of

them the Padres the shuffle him because

the middle of their lineup kind of dying

a little bit they haven't gotten

anything out of their DHS who they

rotate Bell and drory so we'll see we'll

see one little tidbit I found

interesting when I was looking at stuff

is that Brandon Marsh who was the hero

in one of the games for the Phillies in

the divisional series was one of the

best hitters this season against split

finger fastballs like that he had nine

hits against the splitter which tied for

the most in Major League Baseball and

he's going up against you Darvish in

game one who does throw Splitters to

Lefty bat matters he's thrown 11

splitter so far this postseason Zero

have been put in play

but Marsh likes hitting the splitter

nine hits so far so when Marsh steps to

the plate against your Darvish maybe

watch out see if he throws a split

finger fastball kind of goes in in and

drops a little bit I could change up but

still some speed to it

I don't know it could be something could

be nothing the Padres didn't hit that

well against fastballs they don't grade

out that well well the Phillies grayed

out just a little above average a little

below average

and the best fastball you're going to

see is Josh Hayter who's been closing

out games for the Padres mid-season

trade kind of died a little bit was was

going through something that's over with

he's dominant as ever September into the

postseason he leads the postseason with

three saves right now I believe he's

striking out he's struck out seven over

four and a third scoreless and he's just

kind of got an iconic motion and slide

or even dropped a change up in one of

these games earlier she doesn't throw a

lot it's kind of just badass so

there's other stuff to watch out for

obviously but I don't want to you know

inundate you too much