It has been almost a month since the last Phillies game and it will still be about five months before any real action again, so it is the perfect time to reminisce about the past. No better time, in fact, then today, the nine-year anniversary of when they won the World Series over the Tampa Bay Rays in 2008.
Game Five was one of the more eventful World Series games in recent history. Before it even started Oct. 27 , former commissioner Bud Selig ruled that a team cannot clinch a championship in a shortened game with torrential rain in the forecast.