This team that was supposed to take us into the future keeps making us look back at the past. First, we had to go to the 1981 record book to find the last time the Phillies won eight of their first nine games at home. Sunday, after a grind-it-out, 3-2, 11-inning win that completed a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates, we had to flip back to that infamous season of 1964 to find the last Phillies team to begin 9-1 at home.
Win Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks and these Phillies will make history. No team in franchise history has ever started a season 10-1 at home.