It has been a nine-game stretch of baseball that the Phillies seemed incapable of stringing together when the season stopped for the all-star break.
Eight wins, 35 extra-base hits, an average of 5.3 runs per game and a team ERA of 2.82 have pumped at least a modicum of interest back into the baseball season as the countdown to Eagles training camp reaches its final days.
Does it mean anything?
In the narrowest of pictures, it does not. Given the state of the pitching staff, this run of great baseball is going to end sooner rather than later.