One of the most telling stats in baseball is run differential. It doesn’t say everything you need to know about a baseball team, but it’s one of the best and easiest-to-understand of all the advanced metrics as to who your baseball team is.
This Phillies currently are minus-96 in run differential, second-to-last in all of baseball. The only team worse than that is the team coming into Citizens Bank Park this weekend, the San Diego Padres, at minus-124.
In other words, this is series is (gulp!) winnable. And the Phils couldn’t have picked a better time to have a winnable series with two of the year’s biggest promotions – fireworks tonight and the Mike Schmidt bobblehead tomorrow – on the docket.