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May 1, 2024 16 mins
#Phillies/#MLB Insider Luke Arcaini reacts to the Phils winning 7 of 10 on their road trip immediately following the finale of the Angels series on the Luke & I Postgame Show! 

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Damn there's a fight breaking ball poppedup shadow right, Chicar going up,

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Castiano's coming on the Championship. Thisis Luke and I on the Phillies,
brought to you by Fox Sports.The Gambler, Yah Yo fails when Phils,
When Phils? When Phils win?How's a gold one? A little

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scary? A little scary? Wasthat ball out? And I believe twelve
ten ballparks? Maybe did Gregory Sotoalso bear down there and get out of
it? Absolutely? This is theLuke and I postgame Show, brought to
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a really damn good road trip fora really damn good baseball team. I
mean, this is everything, Thisis everything we asked for. Hot start,

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if the best start in the historyof the franchise, the history of
the franchise. They've won. They'venow either split or won their last eight
series. Since the Cincinnati Series,their second home series of the year,
They've either split or won every singleseries since then. They are hitting the

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piss out of the ball right now. Their pitching is still just unbelievable.
Man like it isnerrational. What theyare doing right now just just unreal.
Just another good day, another greatday from the offense. If you're in
the chat or not necessarily from theoffense, we'll get into that a little

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bit. If you are in here, drop a comment. I want to
hear all your thoughts. Let meknow what you're thinking, let me know
what's what's what's going on, howyou're feeling. I'm amped up, I
like I I feel great about themright now. This is this is probably

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probably the best I felt in awhile. They're hitting the ball, they're
pitching the ball, they're doing everythingto almost the best of their ability.
Today was rough. The offense wasrough today. I think eighteen strikeouts.
It's the first time in the Stackcastera that they've struck out eighteen or more
times and won the game. Thatis, that's legit. That that's you.

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That shows you pitching, that showsyou depth, that shows you even
when they're down and even when thebats aren't at their best, they're gonna
find ways to win. Kyle Schwerberanother two hit day, two RBIs averages
up to two eleven on the year. Alec Boum extends is hitting straight to
fifteen games, Trey Turners hitting threethirty six with Merrifield two hits. His

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average is now at the two forty. After a really rough start to the
season. They look really, really, really solid right now, the Phillies.
They've just played all around baseball.The bullpen's coming around after some some
bit of some blow up innings earlyon. It's early. Listen. If
there's one thing that you can alwayssay is early, it's the it's the

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it's the bullpen. Bullpens in baseballtake time. Starters, starters take take
a little bit. Bullpens take time. The these these guys have to have
to really get used to to notthrowing really in these games situations all off
season too, to jumping into thesehigh leverage situations one out, ninth inning,

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bases loaded, where you need twoouts like they have no choice.
It's hard to be a relief pitcher. I think one of the hardest things
to do in sports is to bea closer, let alone just a normal
relief pitcher. Is not easy.But this phil scene looks great. They
look like a baseball team that cancompete with anybody. They they they have

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the best, They have the most, they have the most wins in all
of baseball. Right now, theylook great. Listen, it's it's been
it's been a weak or so sincewe've done a postgame show. We have
to start without Boom. Believe onlyone hit today. But I mean this,
dude, man, like anyone inhere, I want to hear your

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thoughts on Boom right now because thisis like, this is unblelievable. Like
like he is. He's third inoh PS, he's second in average in
off baseball like last what twelve fourteengames two two, three, six,
eight, eleven, twelve sixteen,twenty twenty four to twenty six, twenty
eight hits in fourteen days. He'saveraging two hits a game. He's averaging

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fifteen fourteen straight games of multi hitgames right now. That is bizarre.
He's hitting every ball hard, he'sfinding gaps, he's hitting it down the
line, and when he's not,he's still roping the ball. Even when

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he flies out, even when helines out, even when he grounds out,
he's still roping the baseball. Hehas six strikeouts in the last fifteen
days. He's not striking out.Which is the biggest thing for both is
if Boem's gonna be in that cleanupspot, how much can you lower the

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strikeouts? And that's what Boom's done. The strikeouts are down, the average
is up, the power is up. He may not be hitting his many
out of the park, but man, he's hitting every single ball hard.
And we'll talk about Zach Wheeler aswell, because Zach Wheeler. Zach Wheeler

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didn't pitch that good today. Hedidn't have it. He his stuff wasn't
there. He I think he hadtwenty six U pitch first inning, it
was, it was. It wasan ugly first game for Wheeler. Uh
start today? It was? Itwas, It was all. It was
all over the place. There wasa lot of some some contact in the

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first inning. He threw you onlythrew one hundred and six. He threw
one hundred and six pitches in fiveinnings, forty two fastballs. Other than
that bunch of cutters, curveball,sweepers, five splitters from seventy nine to
ninety five. Right, he justdidn't have He didn't have it. He

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got knocked around and and really heonly allowed he only allowed what, five
hits, just one walk, buthe just didn't have it. And and
then the fact that a five inning, five hit, one earned run outing
for a pitcher is him not havingit. That's pretty good, man,

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Like, that's that's legit. Soeven even when he doesn't have it.
He only threw sixty seven strikes today, but those strikes were they were powerful.
He he he he. He struckguys out when it mattered. He
rolled a ground ball, He workedout a gems like he he he.

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He worked through misplays in the field. He grinded through those last few innings
of that game, and the bullpencame up. Huge match Strom one inning,
zero hits, two strikeout, RyanKirkering one inning, one walk,
two strikeouts, Jose Alvarado, Joseyalvaradoot three hits and he still didn't allow

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an earned drum. That's how goodhe is. He finds ways. This
bullpen finds ways. Right now,Gregory Soto two hits, has the had
the strikeout. He still looked great. Gregory Sota looked really good in that
last inn If you watched that lastinning, he let up the one hit,
and the one hit was sort ofa blue he looked really, really

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solid in that ninth inning, AndI was a big Sodo guy coming into
this year. That six' fivetwo eras miss is very is very misleading
for me right now, Sodo.If you take away Gregory Soto's outing on
April seventeenth vers the Rockies, heis seven innings pitched, six hits,

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two earned runs in the entire monthof April. His his R before that
night was a one six nine,and he's only allowed one earned run since.
His era would be around the twosright now without that singular game against
the Rockies, all I said alloff season was he needs to get rid
of the blow up innings. Thatwas really the only one this year.

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Other than that, he's looked great. Obviously, Uh Wednesday against Cincinnati was
a bit rough, but he's lookedway better already than he has last year.
Once again, if you guys arein here, I want to know
your thoughts. Phil's takes seven often on the road. The Sixers curse

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of losing on a Phillies West coasttrip is over. I mean, guys,
can we talk about that Maxie shotlike? I mean, that was
unbelievable. If you, if anyof you were tuned in last night Fox
Sports Gambler Watch Party Game five.I mean we were in all like we
were, and I he said todayreal quick, if you guys are Phillies

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people, I'm sorry. We'll getback to the Phills in one second.
I'm not even surprised the Maxi shotwent in. I cannot believe that he
had the stones to pull up fromhalf basically, I mean, he basically
pulled off from half court in thegarden with the season on the line with

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nine seconds left. He didn't evenwait. He knew he was probably he
knew he was probably gonna get found. And obviously you want to try and
get that shot off because if hemisses, even though there were no sixers
in there to rebound, that wasa do or die shot. If he
missed that shot, that game wasover. There wasn't a sixer within fifteen

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feet of the basket. So man, that kid's got stones and he's twenty
three. He's twenty three years old. Back to the Phillies once again.
Phillies win the day two to oneover. The Angels win uh seven of
ten on their road trip. They'retwenty one and eleven and there on the
year it's the best start to theseason in franchise history. Zach Wheeler went,

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wasn't his best, was still good. Phillies knocked around Sandoval a little
bit. He did pitch pretty well, though he pitched well, allowed four
hits, two earned runs on thatshot RBI, ten strikeouts from Sandabal.
He looked really good. That thePhillies struck out eighteen times today. I
said earlier in the show, firsttime ever in the stack cast era,

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that the Phillies strike out eighteen timesin a game and they still win the
game. They still find a way, they still do it, and they
still go out and they just theyjust win ball games. We have a
team right now that simply just winsball games. Like, when's the last
time he said that, when's thelast time you said about the Phillies they

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win ball games. It's been years. They always lose that game today,
that is a text book. Phillieslost today in all past seasons. But
they simply just find a way.So once again, Phillies wins seven of
their last ten. Once again,that Taylor Ward flyout to end the game,

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Nathan Ackerman shout out there, Iwould have been a home run in
twenty MLB stadium. It's the Phills, baby, Gregorisoto knows his stadiums.
It's a three and seventy one footpop out that would have been a home
run in twenty MLB stadiums. Justa Phills man. They look really,

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really solid. Once again, ifyou guys are in here, I want
to I want to know what you'rethinking. That's a really it's a really
damn good game. It's a reallydamn good series. Alec Bohm's hot,
Trey Turner is hot. This lineupis really really starting to get going.
Other than today with Merrifield over hislast seven games two games, eight of

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bats, eight seventy five os.Jt. Real Muto's hitting three hundred over
the last seven days. The offenseis coming around. They look really solid,
and they just look like a completebaseball team in the regular season for
the first time since two thousand andeleven. Like they look like a legit

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baseball team right now around in theleague a little bit. Yankees top five
to oh over the Orioles. Marlinsare beating the Rockies finals from earlier in
the day, Tigers for to oneover the Cardinals, Brewers, Dude rees
hasins in the dead middle of thatbrawl yesterday, out and the Milwaukee Brewers

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beat the race seven to one.Williatt domis mashed two homers. I believe
Minnesota Twins take down the Whites.The six and twenty five White Sox ten
to five, Royals beat the BlueJays Athletics. Athletics are only two games
under five hundred. Look at them. Not in win over the Pirates,
Atlanta Braves five to two, winover the Mariners, Padres six to win

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over the Reds once again. Anyfinal thoughts we got going on here from
you guys in the comments, letme know. I want to hear him.
But that's a damn good game.And this bullpen looks good. Uh,
this bullpen looks great. They lookedgreat today. Zach Wheeler battled.
But this offense, man, Ican't, I cannot say much more about

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this offense specifically out Bumuh. JustI mean, dude having what one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine multi
hit games? Like the dude's hittingthree sixty six. He's an ops over
one thousand for the last five games. He has a one to oh three
six OPS this season. Like,what are we doing here? Man?

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Like, this kid looks like one. He looks like an All Star.
Two. He looks like he's fightingto be an MVP. I mean,
right now, he's the he isthe third baseman representative for the All Star
Game in the National League. AndI don't don't. I don't think it's
remotely close. He's the best hittingthird baseman in baseball right now, well

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last a full season. I don'tknow, I hope, but this kid's
playing like a star. That's allI got. Phils look great. I
wanted to pop back on here justto talk to you guys. It's been
a little bit. Once again,Phillies wins seven of ten. We will
be back soon this weekend. ThePhils I Believe kickoff Tomorrow night against the

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San Francisco Giants at home Back atthe Bank, three game series Apple TV
game tomorrow night, Aaron Nola onthe Mound versus Jordan Hicks. That should
be a pretty good pitching matchup.City Connect Friday at Citizens Bank Nola Hicks,
Apple TV six forty. Once again, this is the Luke and I

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