Philadelphia Phillies

{{Main|History of the Philadelphia Phillies}}

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In 1883, sporting goods manufacturer Al Reach, a pioneering professional baseball player, and attorney John Rogers won an expansion National League franchise for Philadelphia, one of what is now known as the "Classic Eight" of the National League. They were awarded a spot in the league to replace the Worcester baseball team, a franchise that had folded in 1882. The new team was nicknamed the "Phillies" from the start, and immediately compiled a .173 winning percentage, which stands as the worst in franchise history. Although many sources (including the Phillies themselves) claim that Reach and Rogers bought the Brown Stockings and moved them to Philadelphia, all available evidence suggests this is not the case. Significantly, no players from Worcester{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/WOR/1882.shtml|title=1882 Worcester Ruby Legs|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=March 7, 2009}} ended up with the 1883 Quakers.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/1883.shtml|title=1883 Philadelphia Quakers|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=March 7, 2009}}

In 1884, Harry Wright, the former manager of baseball's first openly professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was recruited as a manager in hopes of reversing the team's fortunes.{{cite book |title=The Team-by-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball |last=Purdy |first=Dennis |year=2006 |publisher=Workman |location=New York City |isbn=0-7611-3943-5 }}

In 1887, the team began to play at the newly constructed Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds, later renamed National League Park. The stadium would become known as the Baker Bowl in 1923. Despite a general improvement from their dismal beginnings, they never seriously contended for the title.

{{See also|1915 World Series|City Series (Philadelphia)}}

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The nickname "Phillies" first appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on April 3, 1883, in the paper's coverage of an exhibition game by the new National League club and was the team's accepted nickname from the start. This name is one of the longest continually used nicknames in professional sports by a team in the same city.{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline01.jsp |title=Timeline 1800s |website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com |access-date=September 13, 2019 |archive-date=October 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014020847/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline01.jsp |url-status=dead }}

The franchise's standout players in the era were Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson, and Ed Delahanty, who in 1896 set the major-league record (since tied by several others) with four home runs in a single game. Due to growing disagreements about the direction of the team, Reach sold his interest to Rogers in 1899.

With the birth of the more lucrative American League (AL) in 1901, the Phillies saw many of their better players defect to the upstart, including a number of players who ended up playing for their crosstown rivals, the Athletics, owned by former Phillies minority owner Benjamin Shibe. While their former teammates would thrive (the AL's first five batting champions were former Phillies), the remaining squad fared dismally, finishing 46 games out of first place in 1902—the first of three straight years finishing either seventh or eighth.

To add tragedy to folly, a balcony collapsed during a game at the Baker Bowl in 1903, killing 12 and injuring hundreds. Rogers was forced to sell the Phillies to avoid being ruined by an avalanche of lawsuits. In 1904, the team finished with a record of 52–100, making them the first team in franchise history to have lost 100 games.

The Phillies won their first pennant in 1915 thanks to the pitching of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the batting prowess of Gavvy Cravath, who set the 20th century single-season record for home runs with 24. They finished the season with a record of 90–62, seven games ahead of the Boston Braves. The Phillies went up against the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, opening the series at home with a victory. The Phillies struggled against a strong Red Sox pitching lineup and surrendered the next four games, losing the series four games to one.

The team continued to dominate the National League in 1916 but fell short of capturing a second consecutive pennant. The team finished two and a half games out of first place with a record of 91–62. Alexander won his second consecutive triple crown and posted 16 shutouts, tying the single-season major league record.

In 1917, Alexander had been traded to the Chicago Cubs for pitcher Mike Prendegrast and catcher Pickles Dillhoefer, when owner William Baker refused to increase his salary. Baker was known for running the Phillies very cheaply; for instance, during much of his tenure, there was only one scout in the entire organization. The Phillies finished the 1917 season in second place with a record of 87–65, ten games behind the New York Giants.

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The effect of the Alexander trade was immediate. In 1918, only three years after winning the pennant, the Phillies finished sixth, 13 games under .500. It was the start of one of the longest streaks of futility in baseball history. From 1918 to 1948, the Phillies had only one winning record, which came in 1932. The team finished higher than sixth only twice, and were never a serious factor past June. During this stretch, they finished eighth (last place) a total of 17 times and seventh seven times, with 12 seasons in which they lost at least 100 games. This saddled the franchise with a reputation for failure that dogged it for many years. The team's primary stars during the 1920s and 1930s were outfielders Cy Williams, Lefty O'Doul, and Chuck Klein, who won the Triple Crown in 1933.

Baker died in 1930. He left half his estate to his wife and the other half to longtime team secretary Mae Mallen. Five years earlier, Mallen had married a leather goods and shoe dealer, Gerald Nugent. With the support of Baker's widow, Nugent became team president. Baker's widow died in 1932, leaving Nugent in complete control. Unlike Baker, Nugent badly wanted to build a winning team, however, he did not have the financial means to do so. He was forced to trade what little talent the team had to make ends meet, and often had to use some creative financial methods to field a team at all.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sabr.org/cmsFiles/Files/Bill_Veeck_and_the_1943_sale_of_the_Phillies.pdf |title=A Baseball Myth Exploded |website=sabr.org |access-date=September 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050329183858/http://www.sabr.org/cmsFiles/Files/Bill_Veeck_and_the_1943_sale_of_the_Phillies.pdf |archive-date=March 29, 2005 |url-status=dead }}

Philadelphia's Baker Bowl proved to be a fertile hitting ground for Phillies opponents as well, and in 1930, the team surrendered 1199 runs, a major-league record still standing today. Once considered one of the finest parks in baseball, it was not well maintained from the 1910s onward. For instance, until 1925, the Phillies used a flock of sheep to trim the grass. Fans were often showered with rust whenever one of Klein's home runs hit girders. The entire right field grandstand collapsed in 1926, forcing the Phillies to move to the A's Shibe Park (five blocks west on Lehigh Avenue from Baker Bowl) for 1927.

The Phillies tried to move to Shibe Park on a permanent basis as tenants of the A's. However, Baker Bowl's owner, Charles W. Murphy, at first refused to let the Phillies out of their lease. He finally relented in 1938, and only then because the city threatened to condemn the dilapidated park. Despite the move, attendance rarely topped 3,000 a game.

The lowest point came in 1941, when the Phillies finished with a 43–111 record, setting a franchise record for losses in a season. A year later, they needed an advance from the league just to go to spring training. Nugent realized he did not have enough money to operate the team in 1943, and put it up for sale.

After lumber baron William D. Cox purchased the team with a group of investors for $190,000 and a $50,000 note on March 15, 1943,{{Cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/philadelphia-phillies-team-ownership-history/ |title=Philadelphia Phillies team ownership history |website=sabr.org |access-date=September 15, 2020 |date=October 1, 2008|first=Rich| last=Westcott }} the Phillies rose out of last place for the first time in five years. As a result, the fan base and attendance at home games increased. Eventually, Cox revealed that he had been betting on the Phillies, and he was banned from baseball by baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis on November 23, 1943. The new owner, Bob Carpenter Sr., scion of the Delaware-based duPont family, bought the team with his son for an estimated $400,000 that same day – November 23, 1943. The Carpenters tried to polish the team's image and way of doing business. Carpenter Sr. named his son, Bob Carpenter, Jr., team president. They wanted to shed the image of failure by changing the team's nickname.

Before the 1944 season, the team held a fan contest soliciting a new team nickname. Management chose "Blue Jays", the fan submission of Elizabeth Crooks, who received a $100 war bond as compensation.{{cite web| title=Blue Jays Already Creating Squawks| date=March 16, 1944| newspaper=The Sporting News|url=https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5984890903596eaddbfc4532/1505425320834-LZU1EOGOW687A5F2TT5C/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kPdPq385LKpVQrYko4m1O-xZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWEtT5uBSRWt4vQZAgTJucoTqqXjS3CfNDSuuf31e0tVFdoHyhl2IHxpaPTyKwQ8uWw1vJOfSr29QOxuA6qSa1Q8pXv12KvMI5bnNhWi6YtKg/PHILLIES_JAYS.jpg?format=500w| access-date=August 22, 2020}} The Phillies would later claim in the 2000s that the Blue Jays moniker was never official,{{cite web |title=Phillies Timeline: 1940s |work=History Highlights |publisher=Philadelphia Phillies |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline06.jsp |access-date=June 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613153930/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline06.jsp |archive-date=June 13, 2008 |url-status=dead }} however news reports in 1944 note that Phillies management said that the Blue Jays name was as an official "additional nickname", meaning that the team had two official nicknames simultaneously, the Phillies and the Blue Jays.{{cite news| title=Students Hint Phillies Stole Their Name| date=March 9, 1944| newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30362363/john-hopkins-says-phillies-stole-blue/| access-date=August 22, 2020}}{{cite web| title=Blue Jay Nickname Junked by Phillies| date=January 10, 1950| newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle|url=https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5984890903596eaddbfc4532/1505425317530-OCVUH8BLUV3OVZTMADIU/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kBsUZzeLQXwt0ybi9J957h5Zw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWEtT5uBSRWt4vQZAgTJucoTqqXjS3CfNDSuuf31e0tVGeoGe8Vp5GswKDoGU00LFNlsr5Jv4RkfdkobfiWVG2ihur-lC0WofN0YB1wFg-ZW0/BLUE-JAY-NICKNAME-JUNKED.png?format=300w| access-date=August 22, 2020}}

The Phillies' official adoption of Blue Jays as a second official nickname led to a dispute with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, whose nickname is and was Blue Jays. Wilson Shaffer, the school's athletic director, criticized the Philadelphia team for adopting his university's moniker, and said that Philadelphia should use the blue jay's scientific name instead and be known as the Philadelphia Cyanocitta Cristata. Similarly, the university's student council, citing the Philadelphia team's long track record of failure, passed a resolution demanding "suitable satisfaction" for what they perceived as theft and sullying of the Blue Jays name. Carpenter, Jr., responded by criticizing Johns Hopkins' baseball record and promised to make the students proud of the Blue Jays name by having his Philadelphia baseball team win many games.

The Philadelphia team added three minor league clubs before the start of the 1946 season and named them all Blue Jays: the Class C Salina Blue Jays, Class C Schenectady Blue Jays and Class D Green Bay Blue Jays.

However, the new Blue Jays moniker was ultimately unpopular, and although the team in the 2000s claimed that it was quietly dropped by 1949, news reports at the time indicate that the nickname, which "never caught on anyway", was not officially dropped by the team until January 1950.

The Blue Jays moniker would be used by Toronto's MLB club when it started play in 1977. Coincidentally, those Blue Jays would go on to defeat the Phillies in six games in the 1993 World Series nearly 50 years later.

{{See also|1950 World Series|Jim Bunning's perfect game|Whiz Kids (baseball)}}

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Like Cox, Bob Carpenter Jr. was not afraid to spend the money it took to build a contender. He immediately started signing young players and invested even more money in the farm system, and the Phillies quickly developed a solid core of young players that included future Hall of Famers Richie Ashburn and Robin Roberts. This coincided with the final collapse of the A's. Philadelphia had been an "A's town" for most of the first half of the 20th century. Even though the A's had fielded teams as bad or worse than the Phillies for most years since the 1930s, the A's continued to trounce the Phillies at the gate. However, a series of poor baseball and business decisions on the A's part allowed the Phillies to win the hearts of Philadelphia's long-suffering fans.

Things started coming together for the Phillies in 1949, when they rocketed up the standings to third place with an 81–73 record. Although the season had essentially been a two-team race between Brooklyn and St. Louis, it was still the Phillies' first appearance in the first division in 31 years. It was also a fitting tribute to Bob Carpenter Sr., who had died in June and left Bob Jr. in full control of the team.

The 1950 Phillies led the National League standings for most of the season and were dubbed the "Whiz Kids". In the final months of the season, a tailspin (triggered by the loss of starting pitcher Curt Simmons to National Guard service) caused the team to lose the next eight of ten games. On the last day of the season, the Phillies hung on to a one-game lead when Dick Sisler's dramatic tenth inning home run against the Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the Phillies' first pennant in 35 years. In the World Series, exhausted from their late-season plunge and victims of poor luck, the Phillies were swept by the New York Yankees in four straight games. Nonetheless, this appearance cemented the Phillies' status as the city's favorite team.

In contrast, the Philadelphia Athletics finished last in 1950, and longtime manager Connie Mack retired. The team struggled for four more years with only one winning season before abandoning Philadelphia under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack. They began to play in Kansas City in 1955.{{cite web |last=Fleming |first=Frank |title=Philadelphia Athletics |date=April 9, 2006 |url=http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/philadelphia/phillya_s.html |website=sportsecyclopedia.com|access-date=June 4, 2008}} As part of the deal selling that team to the Johnson brothers, the Phillies bought Shibe Park, where both teams had played since 1938.{{cite web |title=Phillies Timeline: 1950s |work=History Highlights |publisher=Philadelphia Phillies |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline07.jsp |access-date=June 4, 2008 |archive-date=September 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910142851/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline07.jsp |url-status=dead }} Many thought that the "Whiz Kids", with a young core of talented players, would be a force in the league for years to come.{{cite journal| last=Hochman| first=Stan| date=July 1972| title=Robin Roberts Remembers the 'Whiz Kids'| journal=Baseball Digest| publisher=Lakeside Publishing Company| volume=31| issue=7| pages=35–38| issn=0005-609X| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zIDAAAAMBAJ&q=whiz+kids+baseball&pg=PA35}}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book |last=Zimniuch| first=Fran| title=Richie Ashburn Remembered| publisher=Sports Publishing LLC| year=2005| page=23| chapter=Big Leagues, Here I Come| isbn=1-58261-897-6| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3d7TouZUHIwC&q=whiz+kids+baseball&pg=PA23| access-date=October 29, 2009}} However, the team finished with a 73–81 record in 1951 and finished nine and a half games out of first place in 1952, with an 87–67 record. The Phillies managed to end up in third place in 1953 with an 83–71 record, however, they would fail to break .500 from 1954 to 1957.

It became apparent that the flash and determination of the Whiz Kids would not return when the team finished last place in the National League from 1958 to 1961. Manager Eddie Sawyer abruptly quit the team after the season opener in 1960, and was replaced by Gene Mauch.

The team's competitive futility was highlighted by a record that still stands: in 1961, the Phillies lost 23 games in a row, the worst losing streak in the majors since 1900. Things started to turn around for the team in 1962, when the team finished above .500 for the first time in five years. Gene Mauch was named National League Manager of the Year that season and won it again in 1964. The team improved in 1963, when the team finished the season with an 87–75 record. There was confidence that the team would soon become contenders for a return to the World Series. Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, the 1964 Phillies still had younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Dick Allen. The team was 90–60 on September 20, good enough for a lead of 6.5 games in the pennant race with 12 games to play. However, the Phillies lost 10 games in a row and finished one game out of first, losing the pennant to the St. Louis Cardinals. The "Phold of '64" is frequently mentioned as the worst collapse in sports history.{{cite web |title=Phillies Timeline: 1960s |work=History Highlights |publisher=Philadelphia Phillies |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline08.jsp |access-date=June 5, 2008 |archive-date=May 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514064401/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline08.jsp |url-status=dead }}

One highlight of the 1964 season occurred on Father's Day, when Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets, the first in Phillies' history.{{cite web| last1=McCoy| first1=Hal| title=Father's Day to remember: Bunning's perfect game of '64| url= http://www.foxsports.com/ohio/story/50th-anniversary-jim-bunning-father-s-day-perfect-game-philadelphia-phillies-new-york-mets-061314| website=Fox Sports| publisher=Fox News| access-date=September 4, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818123707/http://www.foxsports.com/ohio/story/50th-anniversary-jim-bunning-father-s-day-perfect-game-philadelphia-phillies-new-york-mets-061314| archive-date=August 18, 2015| date=June 13, 2014}}

For the rest of the decade, the team finished no higher than fourth place in the NL standings which came during the 1966 season. In the 1969 season, the Phillies finished fifth in the newly created NL East Division, with a record of 63–99.

By the late 1950s, Carpenter decided the Phillies needed a new home. He never wanted to buy Connie Mack Stadium in the first place, and was now convinced there was no way he could make money playing there. He sold the park to Philadelphia Eagles' owner Jerry Wolman in 1964, taking a $1 million loss on his purchase of just 10 years earlier. The stadium was deteriorating and there was inadequate parking. Attendance began to drop by 1967 and the team started to plan for a new stadium.

The Phillies remained at Connie Mack Stadium until 1970. In the last game played there, the Phillies avoided last place by beating the Expos 2–1. When the game was finished several fans in attendance began to remove items from the ballpark, such as chairs, outfield panels and baseball equipment from the dugouts.

{{See also|1980 World Series|1983 World Series|Hot Pants Patrol}}

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The Phillies opened the new Veterans Stadium in 1971. The team wore new maroon uniforms to accentuate the change. The stadium was built in South Philadelphia, making it the first time the team was not located in North Philadelphia. The new stadium, along with nearby John F. Kennedy Stadium and the Spectrum, established the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.

Pitcher Rick Wise hurled a no-hitter and in the same game hit two home runs against the Cincinnati Reds in 1971. That same season, Harry Kalas joined the Phillies broadcasting team.

In 1972, the Phillies were the worst team in baseball, but newly acquired Steve Carlton won nearly half their games (27 of 59 team wins) and was awarded his first NL Cy Young Award and won it again in 1977. Bob Carpenter Jr. retired in 1972 and passed the team ownership to his son Ruly.

The Phillies achieved some success in the mid-1970s. With players such as Carlton, third baseman Mike Schmidt, shortstop Larry Bowa, catcher Bob Boone, and outfielder Greg Luzinski, the Phillies won three straight division titles (1976–78). However, they fell short in the NLCS, against the Reds in 1976 and the Dodgers in 1977 and 1978. In 1979, the Phillies acquired Pete Rose, the spark that would put them over the top.

{{main|1980 World Series}}

The Phillies won the National League East in 1980, but to win the league championship, they had to defeat the Houston Astros. In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games needing extra innings, they fell behind 2–1 but battled back to squeeze past the Astros on a 10th-inning game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first NL pennant in 30 years.{{cite web|title = Phillies Timeline: 1980s|work = History Highlights|publisher = Philadelphia Phillies|url = http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline10.jsp|access-date = June 5, 2008|archive-date = September 10, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150910125059/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline10.jsp|url-status = dead}} The entire series saw only one home run hit, a game-winning two-run home run by Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski in the Phillies' opening 3–1 win in Game 1 at Philadelphia.

Facing the Kansas City Royals in the 1980 World Series, the Phillies won their first World Series championship ever in six games thanks to the timely hitting of Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose. Schmidt, who won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1980, also won the World Series Most Valuable Player award on the strength of his 8-for-21 hitting (.381 average), including game-winning hits in Game 2 and the clinching Game 6. This final game was also significant because it remains "the most-watched game in World Series history" with a television audience of 54.9 million viewers.{{cite journal| last1=Sandomir| first1=Richard| title=Baseball World Series: Postseason Vanishing From Broadcast Networks| journal=The New York Times| date=October 18, 2014| volume=CLXIV| issue=56,657| pages=D4| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/sports/cables-ascent-tests-baseball-fans-and-their-fingers.html| access-date=October 25, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027112826/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/sports/cables-ascent-tests-baseball-fans-and-their-fingers.html| archive-date=October 27, 2014| url-status=live}} Thus, the Phillies became the last of the 16 teams that made up the Major Leagues from 1903 to 1960 to win a World Series.{{cite web | title = Postseason Index | website = Baseball-Reference.com | url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/ | access-date = June 5, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100109123742/http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/ | archive-date = January 9, 2010 | url-status = live }} Carlton captured his third NL Cy Young Award with a record of 24–9.

After their series win, Ruly Carpenter, who had been given control of the team in 1972 when his father stepped down as team president, sold the team for $32.5 million in 1981 to a group that was headed by longtime Phillies executive William Yale Giles.

The Phillies returned to the playoffs in 1981. In five games, they were defeated in the first-ever National League Division Series by the Montreal Expos. Mike Schmidt won his second consecutive NL Most Valuable Player award that year. In 1982, the team finished three games behind the St. Louis Cardinals in the East Division, narrowly missing the playoffs. Carlton captured his fourth career NL Cy Young Award that year with 23 wins.

For the 1983 season, the Phillies returned to the playoffs and beat the Los Angeles Dodgers. They won this series in four games to capture their fourth NL pennant; however, they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series in five games. John Denny was named the 1983 NL Cy Young Award winner. Because of the numerous veterans on the 1983 team, Philadelphia Daily News sportswriter Stan Hochman gave them the nickname, the "Wheeze Kids".{{cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20101221_Stan_Hochman__One_nickname_for_Phillies__aces_rises_to_top.html|title=One nickname for Phillies' aces rises to top|author=Stan Hochman|date=December 21, 2010|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News|access-date=December 21, 2010}}

In 1984, the team finished fourth in the NL East with a record of 81–81. Mike Schmidt still remained a dominant force on the team by leading the National League in both home runs and runs batted in.

The 1985 season was the first time the team finished below .500 since 1974. The team had some success in 1986 despite having released star pitcher Steve Carlton due to injuries. They went on to finish second in the division with a record of 86–75. Mike Schmidt led the National League in home runs and runs batted in that year and also won his third National League Most Valuable Player award, sixth Silver Slugger award and tenth Gold Glove.

In 1987, closer Steve Bedrosian was named the NL Cy Young Award winner.

Injuries caused Mike Schmidt to miss most of the 1988 season and he retired from baseball after playing in only 42 games in 1989, thus, the last member of the 1980 championship team was gone.

In 1990, Terry Mulholland lost a perfect game in the seventh inning when a San Francisco Giants' batter reached base on a throwing error. The next batter grounded into a double play. Thus, Mulholland faced the perfect-game maximum of 27 batters, but did not qualify for a perfect game. He was credited, however, with a no-hitter.See: Perfect game.

During this time, the Phillies often struggled to attract more than 25,000 people to Veterans Stadium, the biggest in the National League at the time (at over 62,000 seats). Even crowds of 40,000 were swallowed up by the cavernous environment.

{{See also|1993 World Series}}

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Before the 1992 season, the organization decided to shed the maroon uniform and logo and use colors similar to those used during the days of the "Whiz Kids". The season ended with the Phillies at the bottom of the standings—last place in the National League East. However, their fortunes were about to change.

The 1993 Phillies were led by stars such as Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Curt Schilling. The team was dubbed "Macho Row" for their shaggy, unkempt, and dirty look. Their character endeared them to fans, and attendance reached a record high the following season.

The team powered their way to a 97–65 record and an NL East division title, all thanks to a big April in which the Phillies went 17–5. The Phillies' major contributors on offense were Dykstra, Kruk, Kevin Stocker (a rookie who led the team in batting average, hitting .324), and Jim Eisenreich, all of whom hit over .300 for the season. Their pitching staff was led by 16-game winners Curt Schilling and Tommy Greene. Each member of the rotation posted at least 10 wins, while the bullpen was led by elder statesman Larry Andersen and closer Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, who notched 43 saves and a 3.34 ERA.

They beat the Atlanta Braves in the 1993 National League Championship Series, four games to two, to earn the fifth NL pennant in franchise history, only to be defeated by the defending World Series champion Toronto Blue Jays in the 1993 World Series.{{cite web |title=Phillies Timeline: 1990s |publisher=Philadelphia Phillies |work=History Highlights |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline11.jsp |access-date=June 5, 2008 |archive-date=September 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910143056/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/timeline11.jsp |url-status=dead }} Toronto's Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run in Game 6 to clinch another Phillies' loss.{{cite web | title = 1993 World Series (1990s) | publisher = Baseball Almanac | url = http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1993ws.shtml| access-date =June 5, 2008 }}

The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was a blow to attendance and on-field success, as was the arrival of the Atlanta Braves in the division due to league realignment. Several players from the 1993 team were either traded or left the team soon after.

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The team drafted third baseman Scott Rolen in the second round of the 1993 amateur draft. He had reached the majors by 1996 and was named National League Rookie of the Year in 1997. After becoming frustrated with management he demanded a trade and was dealt to the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002.

Former Phillie Larry Bowa was hired as manager for the 2001 season, and led the Phillies to an 86–76 record, their first winning season since the 1993 World Series year. They spent most of the first half of the season in first place, and traded first place with the Braves for most of the second half. In the end, they finished two games out of first. Bowa was named National League Manager of the Year.

The Phillies continued to contend for the next few years under Bowa, with the only blemish being an 80–81 season in 2002. On December 6, 2002, Jim Thome, a free agent, signed a six-year, $85 million contract with the team.{{cite web|url=http://static.espn.go.com/mlb/s/top50.html|title=Top 50 free agents|work=ESPN.com|access-date=September 4, 2008}}

Between 1996 and 2002, the team drafted players who would soon become the core of the team including Jimmy Rollins, Pat Burrell, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Cole Hamels. In 2004, the Phillies moved to their new home, Citizens Bank Park,{{cite web|title=Citizens Bank Park|url=http://www.citizensbank.com/ballpark/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516135237/http://www.citizensbank.com/ballpark|archive-date=May 16, 2008|access-date=June 5, 2008|publisher=Citizens Bank}} across the street from Veterans Stadium.

Charlie Manuel took over the club's reins from Bowa after the 2004 season, and general manager Ed Wade was replaced by Pat Gillick in November 2005. Gillick reshaped the club as his own, bringing in players such as Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth, and Jamie Moyer.

{{See also|2008 World Series|2009 World Series|Roy Halladay's perfect game}}

File:Jimmy Rollins (7177971315).jpg, Phillies' shortstop from 2000 to 2014]]

Ryan Howard won the NL Most Valuable Player Award for the 2006 season and Jimmy Rollins won the award the following year. After the franchise lost its 10,000th game in 2007,{{cite news|last=Fastenau|first=Stephen|title=Phils handed 10,000th loss|url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/2089066/|publisher=Major League Baseball Advanced Media|date=July 15, 2007|access-date=August 20, 2024|quote=Philadelphia became the first American professional sports franchise to 10,000 'L's|archive-date=September 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909214808/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/2089066/|url-status=dead}} its core of young players responded by winning the National League East division title, but they were swept by the Colorado Rockies in the Division Series.{{cite news | last = Shpigel | first = Ben | title = Rockies Sweep Phillies to Keep Up Memorable Run | work = The New York Times | date = October 7, 2007 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/sports/baseball/07phillies.html | access-date =June 5, 2008}} After the 2007 season, they acquired closer Brad Lidge through a trade with the Houston Astros.

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{{See also|Curse of Billy Penn}}

File:Cole Hamels pitching 2010.jpg, Phillies' pitcher from 2006 to 2015, was named MVP of the 2008 World Series]]

File:Chase Utley (18851643656).jpg, Phillies' second baseman from 2003 to 2015]]

File:Ryan Howard (18691494119).jpg, Phillies' first baseman from 2004 to 2016]]

File:D7K 4966 Roy Halladay.jpg, Phillies' pitcher from 2010 to 2013 and a 2019 Hall of Fame inductee]]

The Phillies were named by some media as favorites to repeat as division champions in 2008, but they did not get off to the blazing April start that many had hoped for. Still, they managed their first winning opening month since 2003, and only their fourth since their last World Series appearance.

Chase Utley and Brad Lidge represented the team at the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game,{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2008/roster_league.jsp|title=2008 All-Star Game: Rosters by League|publisher=Major League Baseball|access-date=July 15, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715045701/http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2008/roster_league.jsp|archive-date=July 15, 2008|url-status=live}} with Utley garnering the most votes of all National League players.{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/allstar/voting|title=MLB Baseball – CBSSports.com (All-Star Game)|publisher=CBS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080716201813/http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/allstar/voting|archive-date=July 16, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=July 15, 2008}} In a move to bolster their starting rotation in preparation for the pennant race, the Phillies traded three minor league players to the Athletics for starting pitcher Joe Blanton on July 17.{{cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080717&content_id=3145193&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |title=Phillies land workhorse Blanton|publisher=Philadelphia Phillies|access-date=July 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721021235/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080717&content_id=3145193&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi|archive-date=July 21, 2008|url-status=dead}}

On September 27, the Phillies clinched the National League East for the second year in a row. They won the NLDS three games to one against the Milwaukee Brewers, and they defeated the Dodgers in Los Angeles as well, 4–1. As the National League champions, the Phillies advanced to the 2008 World Series to play the Tampa Bay Rays, winning the series 4 games to 1. Game 5 began on Monday, October 27, and was suspended after the top of the 6th inning, with the score tied 2–2. The game resumed Wednesday, October 29, with the Phillies winning the game 4–3 and capturing their second world series in franchise history. Prior to this, there had never been a rain-shortened game in World Series history, and this was the first suspension. Cole Hamels won the Most Valuable Player Award for both the NLCS and the World Series.

Pat Gillick retired as general manager after the 2008 season and was succeeded by one of his assistants, Rubén Amaro Jr. After adding outfielder Raúl Ibañez to replace the departed Pat Burrell, the Phillies retained the majority of their core players for the 2009 season. In July, they signed three-time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martínez and acquired 2008 American League Cy Young winner Cliff Lee before the trade deadline. On September 30, 2009, they clinched a third consecutive National League East Division title for the first time since the 1976–78 seasons.

The team beat the Colorado Rockies in the NLDS and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS to become the first Phillies team to win back-to-back pennants and the first National League team since the 1996 Atlanta Braves to have an opportunity to defend their World Series title. However, the Phillies were unable to repeat the 2008 World Series victory; they were defeated in the 2009 series by the New York Yankees, four games to two. In recognition of the team's recent accomplishments, Baseball America named the Phillies its Organization of the Year.{{cite web| first=Jim| last=Salisbury| title=Organization of the Year: Philadelphia Phillies / Philadelphia completes an amazing turnaround| date=December 7, 2009 |publisher=Baseball America, Inc.| url=http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/awards/organization-of-the-year/2009/269250.html| access-date=September 21, 2010}}

On December 16, 2009, the Phillies acquired starting pitcher Roy Halladay from the Toronto Blue Jays for three minor-league prospects,{{cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20091216&content_id=7818010&vkey=pr_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |title=Phillies acquire Halladay |date=December 16, 2009 |work=MLB.com |access-date=December 17, 2009 |archive-date=November 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108034856/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20091216&content_id=7818010&vkey=pr_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |url-status=dead }} and traded Cliff Lee to the Seattle Mariners for three prospects.{{cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091215&content_id=7814772&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |title=Seven prospects involved in blockbuster |date=December 16, 2009 |author1=Mayo, Jonathan |author2=Winston, Lisa |name-list-style=amp |work=MLB.com |access-date=December 17, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220115157/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091215&content_id=7814772&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |archive-date=December 20, 2009 }}

On May 29, 2010, Halladay pitched a perfect game against the Florida Marlins.{{Ref label|NL2perfect|d|b}} In June 2010, the team's scheduled series against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre was moved to Philadelphia, because of security concerns for the G-20 Summit. The Blue Jays wore their home white uniforms and batted last as the home team, and the designated hitter was used.{{cite web| url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100511&content_id=9963194&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb| title=Jays' set vs. Phillies moved to Philadelphia| last=Bastian| first=Jordan| date=May 11, 2010| publisher=Major League Baseball| access-date=May 12, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514160644/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100511&content_id=9963194&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb| archive-date=May 14, 2010| url-status=live}} The game was the first occasion of the use of a designated hitter in a National League ballpark in a regular-season game; Ryan Howard was the first player to fill the role.{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100625&content_id=11570842¬ebook_id=11570848&vkey=notebook_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| title=Howard is first DH at Citizens Bank Park| last1=Zolecki| first1=Todd| last2=Schonbrun| first2=Zach| date=June 25, 2010| website=Philadelphia Phillies| publisher=Major League Baseball| access-date=June 26, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628084001/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100625&content_id=11570842¬ebook_id=11570848&vkey=notebook_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| archive-date=June 28, 2010| url-status=dead}}

The 2010 Phillies won their fourth consecutive NL East Division championship{{cite web| first=Frank| last=Fitzpatrick| title=Golden era for Phila. baseball?: Yes, it is. But the city also had three others| date=June 26, 2011| publisher=Philadelphia Media Network| work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/124552568.html| access-date=June 27, 2011}}{{cite web| first=Rich| last=Westcott| title=The best Phillies of all time| date=October 1, 2010| website=Philadelphia Phillies| publisher=MLB| url=http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20101001_The_best_Phillies_of_all_time.html|access-date=October 1, 2010}} despite a rash of significant injuries to key players.{{cite web|author=Apr 18 |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/28447/carlos-ruiz |title=Carlos Ruiz Stats, News, Pictures, Bio, Videos – Philadelphia Phillies |publisher=ESPN |access-date=April 19, 2012}} After dropping seven games behind the Atlanta Braves on July 21, Philadelphia finished with an MLB-best record of 97–65.{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/ |title=Regular Season Standings |publisher=MLB |access-date=April 19, 2012}} The streak included a 20–5 record in September, the Phillies' best September since winning 22 games that month in 1983,{{cite web |url=http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/09/27/phillies-clinch-fourth-consecutive-division-title/ |title=Phillies Clinch Fourth Consecutive Division Title |publisher=Mlb.fanhouse.com |date=September 27, 2010 |access-date=April 19, 2012 |archive-date=December 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203102936/http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/09/27/phillies-clinch-fourth-consecutive-division-title |url-status=dead }} and an 11–0 run in the middle of the month.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/schedule/_/name/phi/philadelphia-phillies |title=Philadelphia Phillies 2011 Schedule – Phillies Home and Away |publisher=ESPN |date=January 2, 2011 |access-date=April 19, 2012}} The acquisition of pitcher Roy Oswalt in early August was a key step, as Oswalt won seven consecutive games in just over five weeks from August 11 through September 17. The Phillies clinched the division on September 27, behind a two-hit shutout by Halladay.{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100927&content_id=15141884&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| title=Phour! Phils' NL East dominance continues| last=Zolecki| first=Todd| date=September 27, 2010| website=Philadelphia Phillies| publisher=MLB| access-date=September 28, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930000043/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100927&content_id=15141884&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| archive-date=September 30, 2010| url-status=dead}}

In Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in Major League Baseball postseason history, leading the Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds, 4–0. (The first was New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.{{cite web |url= http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=301006122 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120715154544/http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=301006122 |url-status= dead |archive-date= July 15, 2012 | title=Cincinnati Reds vs. Philadelphia Phillies – Recap|date= October 6, 2010| work= ESPN | access-date=October 7, 2010 }}) Halladay's no-hitter was the fifth time a pitcher has thrown two no-hitters in the same season, and was also the first time that one of the two occurred in the postseason. The Phillies went on to sweep the Reds in three straight games.

In the 2010 National League Championship Series, the Phillies fell to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants in six games. Halladay was named the 2010 NL Cy Young Award winner.

Before the start of the 2011 season, the Phillies signed pitcher Cliff Lee to a five-year deal, bringing him back to the team and forming a formidable rotation of Halladay, Lee, Hamels, Oswalt, and Blanton. Including Vance Worley, who replaced Joe Blanton due to injury. The rotation combined for a win–loss record of 71–38, and an earned run average of 2.86, the best in the majors that year. Commentators called it one of the best rotations ever assembled.{{cite web|url=http://blog.thenewstribune.com/mariners/2011/03/28/2011-season-predictions-from-the-tnt-staff-who-ya-got/cole-hamels-roy-oswalt-roy-halladay-joe-blanton-cliff-lee/|title=Cole Hamels, Roy Oswalt, Roy Halladay, Joe Blanton, Cliff Lee|author=Divish, Ryan|date=March 28, 2011|publisher=The News Tribune|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221235702/http://blog.thenewstribune.com/mariners/2011/03/28/2011-season-predictions-from-the-tnt-staff-who-ya-got/cole-hamels-roy-oswalt-roy-halladay-joe-blanton-cliff-lee/|archive-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=February 9, 2014}}{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/cliff_corcoran/09/21/phillies.rotation/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925011030/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/cliff_corcoran/09/21/phillies.rotation/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 25, 2011|title=Phillies' much-hyped rotation even better than expected|author=Corcoran, Cliff|date=September 21, 2011|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=February 9, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://clearwater.wtsp.com/news/news/phillies-phantastic-phour-rotation-arrives/47584|title=Phillies' "Phantastic Phour" rotation arrives|date=February 14, 2011|publisher=WTSP|access-date=February 9, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140209210437/http://clearwater.wtsp.com/news/news/phillies-phantastic-phour-rotation-arrives/47584|archive-date=February 9, 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/hotstove10/columns/story?id=5920160|title=Measuring Phillies' rotation historically|author=Stark, Jayson|date=December 14, 2010|publisher=ESPN|access-date=February 9, 2014}} Halladay, Oswalt, Lee, and Hamels were dubbed two nicknames by fans and media: the "Phantastic Phour" and "The Four Aces". On September 17, 2011, the Phillies won their fifth consecutive East Division championship,{{cite web|title=Phillies clinch 5th straight NL East title after Roy Oswalt handles Cards |url= http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=310917122 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120715063551/http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=310917122 |url-status= dead |archive-date= July 15, 2012 | publisher=ESPN| access-date=September 18, 2011}} and on September 28, during the final game of the season, the team set a franchise record for victories in a season with 102 by beating the Atlanta Braves in 13 innings, denying their division rivals a potential wild card berth.{{cite news| url=http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20110929_Inside_the_Phillies__Manuel__Phillies_start_second_leg_of_a_magical_season.html?viewAll=y| title=Marathon Milestones: Manuel, Phillies Break Team Records| date=September 29, 2011| first=Bob| last=Brookover| newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer| page=A1| access-date=October 2, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002024340/http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20110929_Inside_the_Phillies__Manuel__Phillies_start_second_leg_of_a_magical_season.html?viewAll=y| archive-date=October 2, 2011| url-status=live}} Yet the Phillies lost in the NLDS to the St. Louis Cardinals—the team that won the National League Wild Card as a result of the Phillies beating the Braves. The Cardinals subsequently beat the Brewers in the NLCS and won the 2011 World Series in seven games over the Texas Rangers.

The 2012 Phillies experienced an up and down season. They played .500 ball through the first two months, but then slumped through a 9–19 stretch in June where they ended up at the bottom of the NL East by mid-season. With any hope dimming, the Phillies traded key players Shane Victorino and Joe Blanton to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Hunter Pence to the San Francisco Giants before the trade deadline. A hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, but any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, costing the Phillies the postseason for the first time since 2006.

The Phillies' win–loss record never went below .500 during this time; and the team won the NL East five years in a row from 2007 to 2011.{{cite web|date=June 23, 2019|title=Philadelphia Phillies Team History & Encyclopedia|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/index.shtml|access-date=June 23, 2008|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}

During the 2013 season, the team struggled again and was unable to consistently play well for the majority of the season. On August 16, 2013, with the team's record at 53–68, the Phillies fired manager Charlie Manuel, who had managed the team since 2005,{{cite web |title=2013 Philadelphia Phillies |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/2013.shtml |access-date=July 26, 2014 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}} and promoted third-base coach Ryne Sandberg to interim manager. Manuel had spent over nine years as manager, leading Philadelphia to its first World Series victory in nearly 30 years and amassing an overall record of 780–636 to become the manager with the most wins in the franchise's history. The 2013 Phillies ended up with a record of 73–89, their first losing season since 2002. In the off-season, pitcher Roy Halladay retired from baseball.

In the 2014 season, one of the few bright spots was the September 1 game against a division rival, the Atlanta Braves, when starter Cole Hamels and relievers Jake Diekman, Ken Giles, and Jonathan Papelbon combined for a no-hitter at Turner Field and a 7–0 victory over Atlanta. In the first round of the 2014 MLB Draft the Phillies selected pitcher Aaron Nola with the 7th overall pick. The team could not gain momentum during the season and finished last in the NL East, the first time they had done so since 2000. During the off-season, Jimmy Rollins waived his no-trade clause and was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, while Cliff Lee pitched his last game and was sidelined for the entire 2015 season due to injury.

In 2015, attendance began to drop as the team showed little improvement and it was clear that the remnants of the 2008 World Series team would soon be departing. Sandberg resigned as manager and bench coach Pete Mackanin was brought in as interim manager. Cole Hamels no-hit the Chicago Cubs 5–0 at Wrigley Field, on July 25, striking out 13 and giving up only two walks.{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=350725116 | title= Philadelphia Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs – Box Score – July 25, 2015 – ESPN|website=ESPN| access-date=July 25, 2015}} It was the first no-hitter against the Cubs since Sandy Koufax's perfect game in 1965, and first at Wrigley Field since the Cubs' Milt Pappas in 1972.{{cite web |url= https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/7/25/9040067/cole-hamels-no-hitter-phillies-cubs| title=Cole Hamels pitches no-hitter at Wrigley Field amid trade rumors| author=Eric Stephen| publisher=Vox Media| work=SBNation.com | date=July 25, 2015| access-date=July 25, 2015}} Hamels was dealt to the Texas Rangers, six days later.{{cite web| first=Jean-Jacques| last=Taylor| title=Cole Hamels quickly going to work for Texas after 8-player trade finalized|url= https://www.espn.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/13353524/texas-rangers-complete-cole-hamels-trade-8-player-deal-philadelphia-phillies| publisher=ESPN| date=August 1, 2015| access-date=October 2, 2015}}{{cite magazine| first=Cliff| last=Corcoran| title=Rangers land Cole Hamels from Phillies in move for 2016 and beyond| url= https://www.si.com/mlb/2015/07/30/cole-hamels-trade-rangers-rotation-prospects-phillies| magazine=Sports Illustrated| date=August 1, 2015| access-date=October 2, 2015}} The following month saw the departure of Chase Utley who was traded to the Dodgers. In September, general manager Rubén Amaro Jr. was fired and Andy MacPhail was brought in as the interim general manager.{{cite web|title=MacPhail to be Phillies president after season|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/andy-macphail-to-be-phillies-president-c133563016|website=MLB.com|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303122625/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/133563016/andy-macphail-to-be-phillies-president/|url-status=live}} The team once again finished last in the NL East with a record of 63–99. McPhail was officially named the organization's President of Baseball Operations during the off season.{{Cite web|url =http://philadelphialocalbuzz.com/sports/phillies/who-is-andy-macphail/|title =Who is Andy MacPhail?|website =philadelphialocalbuzz.com|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151222100149/http://philadelphialocalbuzz.com/sports/phillies/who-is-andy-macphail/|archive-date =December 22, 2015|access-date =December 16, 2015}} The team then hired Matt Klentak as the new general manager.

In 2016, the team finished fourth in the NL East, only winning eight more games than they had the previous year, with a 71–91 record. The 2016 season was the last for both Ryan Howard and Carlos Ruiz in a Phillies' uniform. Ruiz was traded to the Dodgers in late August, reuniting him with Chase Utley. The team decided to not exercise their club option on Howard, thus making him a free agent.

On September 29, 2017, Pete Mackanin was fired as manager. The Phillies announced Gabe Kapler as their new manager on October 30, 2017.{{cite web |title=Phillies Hire Gabe Kapler as Manager |url=https://www.mlb.com/press-release/phillies-hire-gabe-kapler-as-manager-260171488 |website=mlb.com |access-date=August 11, 2019}} Kapler had been the Director of Player Development for the Los Angeles Dodgers since November 2014. He led the Phillies in the right direction in the first half of the 2018 season, as they had a 59–48 record at the July 31 trade deadline and were leading the NL East division by 1.5 games over the Atlanta Braves.{{Cite web |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/sports/phillies/phillies-red-sox-recap-score-jake-arrieta-trade-deadline-nl-east-race-20180731.html |title=Jake Arrieta dazzles for seven innings to lift Phillies past Red Sox |last=Lauber |first=Scott |date=July 31, 2018 |website=inquirer.com |access-date=September 13, 2019}} However, a late-season collapse where they went 21–34 from August to the end of the season led to the Phillies finishing with an 80–82 record and third in the division. Aaron Nola amassed a record of 17–6 with a 2.37 earned run average and 0.975 WHIP.{{cite web |title=Baseball Reference: Aaron Nola |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nolaaa01.shtml |website=baseball-reference.com |access-date=August 11, 2019}} He finished third in the National League Cy Young race, behind the Nationals' Max Scherzer and the winner, the Mets' Jacob DeGrom.{{cite web |title=Nola finishes third in NL Cy Young Award voting |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-nola-third-in-nl-cy-young-award-voting-c300728400 |website=mlb.com |publisher=Todd Zolecki |access-date=August 11, 2019}}

{{See also|2022 World Series}}

File:Bryce Harper Stare Down Pregame from Nationals vs. Phillies at Nationals Park, May 13th, 2021 (All-Pro Reels Photography) (51188354283) (cropped).jpg to a 13-year, $330 million contract.]]

The Phillies intended to start targeting valuable free agents as soon as the 2018 season was over. Owner John Middleton said they were willing to "spend stupid money".{{cite web |title=John Middleton: Phillies May Be 'Little Bit Stupid' with Free-Agency Money |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2806444-john-middleton-phillies-may-be-little-bit-stupid-with-free-agency-money |website=Bleacherreport.com |publisher=Tim Daniels |access-date=August 11, 2019}} During the off-season, the Phillies signed Andrew McCutchen, David Robertson, and made the splash of the offseason by signing Bryce Harper to a 13-year, $330 million deal, taking him away from the division rival Washington Nationals. The team also made many trades, including trading for the Mariners' shortstop Jean Segura and the Marlins' catcher J.T. Realmuto.{{cite web |title=The Phillies' offseason haul: 5 former All-Stars, led by Bryce Harper |url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/02/phillies-offseason-additions-bryce-harper |website=usatoday.com |date=February 28, 2019 |publisher=Nick Schwartz |access-date=August 11, 2019}} The Phillies got off to a hot start the first two months, going 33–22 but collapsed from there. They were eliminated from the playoffs on September 24 in the first game of a day-night double-header against Harper's former team and the eventual World Series champions, the Nationals, on their way to finishing with a record of 81–81. Owner John Middleton fired Manager Gabe Kapler on October 10, 2019, after ten days of intense deliberations with insiders and outsiders alike.{{cite web |title=Phillies relieve Kapler of managerial duties |url=https://www.mlb.com/phillies/press-release/press-release-phillies-relieve-kapler-of-managerial-duties |website=phillies.mlb.com |publisher=MLB Advanced Media |access-date=April 15, 2020 |date=October 10, 2019}}

On October 24, 2019, the Philadelphia Phillies announced Joe Girardi as their 55th manager of the team, signing a three-year deal with the Phillies with an option for the 2023 season.{{cite web |title=Girardi named Phils manager on 3-year deal |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-girardi-hired-to-be-phillies-manager |website=MLB.com |publisher=MLB Advanced Media |first1=Todd |last1=Zolecki |access-date=October 24, 2019}}

In the COVID-shortened 2020 season, the Phillies had a record of 27-25 through their first 52 games and only needed to win 2 of their final 8 games to secure a spot in the expanded playoffs. The team collapsed, however, finishing 1-7 to end the season with a losing record of 28–32. On October 3, 2020, Matt Klentak was relieved as General Manager.{{Cite web|title=Klentak steps down as general manager|url=https://www.mlb.com/phillies/press-release/press-release-klentak-steps-down-as-general-manager|access-date=December 22, 2020|website=MLB.com|language=en}} On December 11, 2020, the Phillies hired Dave Dombrowski as the President Of Baseball Operations.{{Cite web|title=Phillies hire Dombrowski as President of Baseball Operations|url=https://www.mlb.com/phillies/press-release/press-release-phillies-hire-dombrowski-as-president-of-baseball-operations|access-date=December 22, 2020|website=MLB.com|language=en}} On December 22, 2020, Dombrowski hired Sam Fuld as the General Manager.{{Cite web|title=Sam Fuld to be named Phils GM (source)|url=https://www.mlb.com/phillies/news/sam-fuld-phillies-general-manager|access-date=December 22, 2020|website=MLB.com|language=en}}

In 2021, the Phillies finished the season with an 82–80 record, their first winning season since 2011, but failed to make the playoffs. On the heels of a strong second half, Bryce Harper won the NL Most Valuable Player Award and a Silver Slugger Award. Other season highlights included Aaron Nola tying an MLB record for consecutive strikeouts by striking out 10 Mets in a row on June 25 and Zack Wheeler finishing second in NL Cy Young voting to Corbin Burnes of the Milwaukee Brewers. The team targeted high-profile free agents during the offseason and improved their lineup by signing outfielders Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos.

The Phillies got off to a sluggish 22–29 start to the 2022 season. On June 3, the Phillies fired manager Joe Girardi and replaced him with bench coach Rob Thomson, who was named the team's interim manager.{{Cite web|title=Thomson's Path to Phillies Interim Manager|date=June 3, 2022 |url=https://www.si.com/mlb/phillies/opinions/rob-thomson-coaching-history-philadelphia-phillies-manager-joe-girardi-fired}} The Phillies ended the 2022 season 87–75, reaching the playoffs for the first time since 2011.

In the postseason, the Phillies traveled to St. Louis to face the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Wild Card Series for a best of three series, winning in two games.{{cite web | url=https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/phillies-clinch-first-postseason-berth-since-2011-as-national-league-playoff-field-is-set/ | title=Phillies clinch first playoff berth since 2011 as National League postseason field is set| date=October 4, 2022}} They went on to eliminate the defending World Champion Atlanta Braves three games to one in the National League Division Series, advancing to the National League Championship Series where they would face the San Diego Padres. The Phillies won the series four games to one and would advance to the 2022 World Series.{{cite news |title=Phillies, Flashing Style and Power, Clinch N.L.C.S. Berth and End Atlanta's Season |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/15/sports/baseball/phillies-braves-score.html |website=New York Times|date=October 15, 2022 |last1=Blinder |first1=Alan }} Bryce Harper was named MVP of the NLCS. On October 10, the Phillies also removed the interim role of Thomson and named him the team's manager.

The Phillies faced the American League champion Houston Astros in a best of seven World Series that began October 28 at Minute Maid Park in Houston. The Astros entered the series as the top seeded team in the American League and with an undefeated record in the postseason of 7–0.{{Cite web |title=Astros chasing 46-year postseason record |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/2022-astros-chasing-1976-reds-undefeated-postseason-record |access-date=November 7, 2022 |website=MLB.com |language=en}} Game 1 ended with the Phillies winning the game in extra innings by a score of 6–5, with catcher J.T. Realmuto hitting the game-winning home run in the top of the 10th inning.{{Cite web |title=Realmuto real clutch! Late HR caps Phils' historic G1 feat |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/phillies-win-world-series-game-1-2022 |access-date=November 7, 2022 |website=MLB.com |language=en}} The Astros would even the series at 1–1 in Game 2, with the series going to Philadelphia for the first time since 2009. Game 3 at Citizens Bank Park was originally scheduled to take place on October 31, but was postponed until the following day due to rain, which also moved the rest of the series games back by a day. The Phillies would take Game 3 by a score of 7–0, which was a result of the team hitting five home runs in the first five innings of the game, the first time this had occurred in World Series history.{{Cite web |last=Lacques |first=Gabe |title=Bryce Harper leads record five-homer barrage as Phillies beat Astros in Game 3, take 2–1 World Series lead |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2022/11/01/phillies-bryce-harper-home-run-barrage-world-series-game-3/8243842001/ |access-date=November 7, 2022 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}} All five home runs were given up by Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr., which became a record for most home runs surrendered by a pitcher in a World Series game.{{Cite web |date=November 2, 2022 |title=Phils blast record-tying 5 HRs, take 2–1 WS lead |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34929384/phillies-tie-world-series-record-5-homers-win-game-3 |access-date=November 7, 2022 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}} In Game 4, the Astros answered back by winning the game 5–0 and throwing a combined no-hitter, the first combined no-hitter in postseason history, and just the second no-hitter of any type in a World Series after Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956.{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Scott |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Astros Combine for Second No-Hitter in World Series History |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/sports/baseball/astros-world-series-no-hitter-game-4.html |access-date=November 7, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}} The Astros won the next two games, winning the series four games to two. The Phillies' game six loss, coming shortly after the Philadelphia Union fell in the championship game of the MLS Cup, made Philadelphia the first American city to lose two major professional sports championship title games in the same day. Later, the Philadelphia Eagles would also lose Super Bowl LVII when they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs, thus making the first time three teams in the same city lost three consecutive finals in history.{{cite web |title=Philadelphia becomes the first city to lose two major sports championships on the same day |url=https://usasports.news/philadelphia-becomes-the-first-city-to-lose-two-major-sports-championships-on-the-same-day/ |website=USA Sports |date=November 6, 2022 |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106143123/https://usasports.news/philadelphia-becomes-the-first-city-to-lose-two-major-sports-championships-on-the-same-day/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |last=Report |first=Agency |date=2023-02-13 |title=Super Bowl: Philadelphia record three back-to-back championships loss |url=https://punchng.com/super-bowl-philadelphia-record-three-back-to-back-championships-loss/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=Punch Newspapers |language=en-US}}

{{See also|Major League Baseball uniforms}}

The current team colors, uniform, and logo date back to 1992. The main team colors are red and white, with blue serving as a prominent accent. The team name is written in red with a blue star serving as the dot over the "i"s, and blue piping is often found in Phillies' branded apparel and materials. The team's home uniform is white with red pinstripes, lettering and numbering. The road uniform is traditional grey with red lettering/numbering. Both bear a script-lettered "Phillies" logo, with the aforementioned star dotting the "i"s across the chest, and the player name and number on the back. The uniform's front script has undergone minor changes over the years.{{cite web | last = Kelly | first = Tim | title = The Phillies have made subtle uniform tweaks ahead of the 2019 season | date = March 26, 2019 | publisher = Phillies Nation | url = https://www.philliesnation.com/2019/03/philadelphia-phillies-news-jerseys-changes-2019-jersey-patch-new-logo | access-date =July 19, 2019}} Hats are red with a single stylized "P".{{cite web | last = Okkonen | first = Mark | title = Dressed to the Nines: Uniform Database | publisher = National Baseball Hall of Fame | url = http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=Philadelphia&lowYear=1950&highYear=1969&sort=year&increment=9&=Display+uniforms | access-date =June 10, 2008}} The uniforms and logo are very similar to those used during the "Whiz Kids" era from 1950 to 1969.

Prior to 2024, the Phillies were the one of two MLB teams to use chain stitching in their chest emblems, along with the St. Louis Cardinals. However, when Nike controversially changed the league's uniforms to the Vapor Premier uniform, the Phillies' wordmark crest was changed to a tackle twill patch style.

In 2008, the Phillies introduced an alternate, cream-colored uniform during home day games—a tribute to their 125th anniversary. The uniforms are similar to those worn from 1946 through 1949, featuring red lettering bordered with blue piping and lacking pinstripes.{{cite web | last = Okkonen | first = Mark | title = Dressed to the Nines: Uniform Database | publisher = National Baseball Hall of Fame | url = http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=Philadelphia&lowYear=1946&highYear=1950&sort=year&increment=9 | access-date =June 15, 2009}} The accompanying cap is blue with a red bill and a red stylized "P". The uniforms were announced on November 29, 2007, when shortstop Jimmy Rollins, pitcher Cole Hamels, and Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts modeled the new uniforms.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=29 November 2007 |title=Philadelphia Phillies Jimmy Rollins, left, Cole Hamels, right, and Hall of Famer Robin Roberts model new uniforms during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. The Phillies plan to wear the new alternate home uniform during the 2008 season in a tribute to the teamÕs 125th anniversary. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke Stock Photo - Alamy |url=https://www.alamy.com/philadelphia-phillies-jimmy-rollins-left-cole-hamels-right-and-hall-of-famer-robin-roberts-model-new-uniforms-during-a-news-conference-in-philadelphia-thursday-nov-29-2007-the-phillies-plan-to-wear-the-new-alternate-home-uniform-during-the-2008-season-in-a-tribute-to-the-teams-125th-anniversary-ap-photomatt-rourke-image540184107.html |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=Alamy.com |language=}}

In 2016, the Phillies added a red alternate uniform, similar to their spring training uniforms, to be used for mid-week afternoon games. It was unofficially retired following the 2017 season, after which the Phillies revived their powder blue throwbacks as an alternate uniform to be used on select Thursday home games. The red alternates were brought back for select road games in 2021, and became the team's preferred uniform during "getaway day" road games. After the 2023 season, the Phillies retired the red alternates in anticipation of a new City Connect uniform, unveiled in 2024. The primarily light blue/midnight blue gradient uniform with yellow trim was heavily inspired by the flag of Philadelphia's colors of light blue and yellow, with "Philly" emblazoned on the chest. The cap has Liberty Bell silhouette with a light blue sky and midnight blue skyline, centered alongside two yellow stars. For the 2024 season, the Phillies wore their City Connect uniforms for 12 Friday night home games.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-05 |title=When will Phillies wear City Connect jerseys in 2024 MLB season? |url=https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/phillies-wear-city-connect-jersey-schedule-2024-mlb-season/576158/ |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=NBC Sports Philadelphia |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Philadelphia Phillies Uniform Lineup |url=https://www.uniformlineup.com/Lineups/phi-lineups.html#bar24 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=UniformLineup.com}}

The Phillies are one of four teams in Major League Baseball that do not display the name of their city, state, or region on their road jerseys, joining the Los Angeles Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Tampa Bay Rays. Until 2022, the Phillies were the only team that also displayed the player's number on one sleeve, except on the alternate jersey, in addition to the usual placement on the back of the jersey. Since 2023, the sleeves on the Phillies' primary uniforms were left blank in anticipation of a future uniform advertisement. In 2024, the Phillies unveiled Independence Blue Cross (IBX) as the team's first uniform advertiser.{{Cite web |last=Kinkead |first=Kevin |date=2024-07-30 |title=IBX Won't Stop Until Their Logo is on Every Philadelphia Uniform |url=https://www.crossingbroad.com/2024/07/ibx-wont-stop-until-their-logo-is-on-every-philadelphia-uniform.html |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=Crossing Broad |language=en-US}}

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From Opening Day through July 26, 2009, the Phillies wore 2008 World Champions patches on the right sleeve of their home uniforms to celebrate their World Series victory the season prior.

The Phillies have worn the following memorial patches:

• For the 2009 season the Phillies wore black, circular "HK" patches over their hearts in memory of broadcaster Harry Kalas, who died April 13, 2009, just before he was to broadcast a Phillies game in Washington, D.C.
• After the death of Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts on May 6, 2010, the Phillies wore a black patch with a white "36" on the sleeves of their jerseys in memory of Roberts for the remainder of the 2010 season. Number 36 had been retired previously by the team in 1962 to honor Roberts.
• For the 2011 season, the Phillies wore a black circular patch with a "B" in honor of minority owners Alexander and John Buck, who died in late 2010.
• For the 2014 season, the Phillies wore a black circular patch with initials "CB" in honor of former owner Claire Betz, who died during the offseason.
• For the 2015 season, the Phillies wore a black circular patch with a white "SLB" in memory of minority owner Sara L. Buck, who died on August 23, 2014.
• For the 2017 season, the Phillies wore a black circular patch on their sleeves featuring the "baseball stitched" center swirl "P" used from 1970 to 1991 inside the white silhouette of a capital "D" in memory of former manager Dallas Green, who led the franchise to its first World Series championship and died on March 22, 2017.{{cite web |last=Hofmann |first=Rich |date=April 7, 2017 |title=Phillies will wear patch honoring Dallas Green throughout 2017 season |url=https://www.phillyvoice.com/phillies-will-wear-patch-honoring-dallas-green-throughout-2017-season/ |access-date=October 5, 2019 |publisher=Philly Voice}}
• Following the death of former chairman, minority-owner, and president David Montgomery on May 8, 2019, the Phillies added a black circular patch with white "DPM" letters in memory of Montgomery for the remainder of the 2019 season.{{cite web |last=Breen |first=Matt |date=May 13, 2019 |title=Phillies honor David Montgomery with a patch, scorecard, and moment of silence |url=https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/phillies-brewers-david-montgomery-tribute-moment-of-silence-20190514.html |access-date=October 5, 2019 |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}
• For the 2021 season, the Phillies wore a patch with the number "15" on it in honor of former player Dick Allen, who died the previous year.{{cite web |last=Zenz |first=Jay |title=Phillies unveil alternate uniforms |url=http://phillies.scout.com/2/706704.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609012308/http://phillies.scout.com/2/706704.html |archive-date=June 9, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2008 |publisher=Scout.com}}

The Phillies were an early adopter of the batting practice jersey in 1977, wearing a maroon v-necked top with the "Phillies" script name across the chest, as well as the player name and number on the back and a player number on the left sleeve, all in white. Pete Rose wore this maroon batting jersey in place of the road jersey during the 1979 All-Star Game.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYDqgpjY0w |title=1979 MLB All Star Game SEATTLE Original NBC Broadcast |date=2020-12-31 |last= |access-date=2025-01-30 |via=YouTube}} Currently, during spring training, the Phillies wear solid red practice jerseys with pinstriped pants for Grapefruit League home games. The red jerseys are worn with grey pants on the road.

{{See also|List of Philadelphia Phillies turn back the clock games}}

From 1970 to 1991, the Phillies sported colors, uniforms, and a logo that were noticeably different from what had come before, or since, but that were widely embraced by even traditionally minded fans. A dark burgundy was adopted as the main team color, with a classic pinstripe style for home uniforms. Blue was almost entirely dropped as part of the team's official color scheme, except in one area; a pale blue (as opposed to traditional grey) was used as the base-color for away game uniforms from 1972 to 1988. Yet the most important aspect of the 1970 uniform change was the adoption of one of the more distinctive logos in sports; a Phillies "P" that, thanks to its unique shape and "baseball stitched" center swirl, remained instantly recognizable and admired, long after its regular use had ended. It was while wearing this uniform style and color motif that the club achieved its most enduring success, including a World Series title in 1980 and another World Series appearance in 1983. Its continued popularity with fans is still evident. Even today, Phillies' home games can contain many fans sporting caps, shirts or jackets emblazoned with the iconic "P" and burgundy color scheme. The current team has worn the burgundy and powder blue throwbacks whenever their opponents are wearing throwback uniforms from that era. Additionally, this uniform also marked the first appearance of "racing stripes" on a baseball uniform (striping going down the jersey shoulders, the side of the pants and up to the sides of the jersey up to the armpit), which would be seen on several other MLB teams for the next quarter-century.

In 1979, the Phillies' front office modified the uniform into an all-burgundy version with white trimmings, to be worn for Saturday games.{{cite web | last = Okkonen | first = Mark | title = Dressed to the Nines: Uniform Database (1979) | publisher = National Baseball Hall of Fame | url = http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?FileName=nl_1979_philadelphia.gif&Entryid=1389 | access-date = June 7, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080628150348/http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1979_philadelphia.gif&Entryid=1389 | archive-date = June 28, 2008 | url-status = dead }} They were called "Saturday Night Specials" and were worn for the first and last time on May 19, 1979,{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Lukas |title=Uni Watch: One and done|url= https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/070823 | work=Uni Watch | publisher=ESPN| date=August 23, 2007 | access-date=October 13, 2009}} a 10–5 loss to the Montreal Expos.{{cite web |title=Box Score of Game played on Saturday, May 19, 1979, at Veterans Stadium |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197905190PHI |website=Baseball-almanac.com|access-date=October 13, 2009}} The immediate reaction of the media, fans, and players alike was negative, with many describing the despised uniforms as pajama-like. As such, the idea was hastily abandoned.{{cite web| title = Baseball almanac entry on baseball uniforms| website = Baseball-almanac.com| url = http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/uniforms.shtml| access-date = June 6, 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080509195105/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/uniforms.shtml| archive-date = May 9, 2008| url-status = live}} Mike Schmidt did wear the uniform during the MLB All-Star Tour of Japan following the 1979 season. During the closing ceremonies at Veterans Stadium on September 28, 2003, there was a procession of former players during the post-game ceremony, most in uniform. Larry Christenson, the starting pitcher in the original game, came out wearing this old burgundy uniform and was the only one to do so. The Phillies wore this jersey again for the 40th anniversary of the original game on July 27, 2019. Christenson threw out the ceremonial first pitch. They lost to the Atlanta Braves 15–7.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-phillies-saturday-night-special-burgundy-uniforms-20190728-o643q6td6jawrafvkc4eneadyy-story.html|title=The Phillies wore their horrendous Saturday Night Special uniforms and got the same crappy result as 40 years ago|last=Young|first=Dennis|website=nydailynews.com|date=July 27, 2019 |access-date=July 28, 2019}}

Another uniform controversy arose in 1994, when the Phillies introduced all-blue caps on Opening Day that were to be worn for home day games only.{{cite web | last = Okkonen | first = Mark | title = Dressed to the Nines: Uniform Database (1994) | publisher = National Baseball Hall of Fame | url = http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1994_philadelphia.gif&Entryid=1783 | access-date =June 7, 2008}} The caps were unpopular with the players, who considered them bad luck after two losses and wanted them discontinued. Management wanted to keep using the caps as planned, as they sold well to fans. A compromise was reached: the players agreed to wear them for weekday games while returning to the customary red caps for Sunday afternoon games.{{cite web |url=http://articles.philly.com/1994-05-01/sports/25828623_1_red-hats-businessperson-s-specials-darren-daulton |title=Phils Resolve Blue-cap Crisis With An Agreement: Hats Off On Sundays |publisher=Articles.philly.com |date=May 1, 1994 |access-date=June 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072611/http://articles.philly.com/1994-05-01/sports/25828623_1_red-hats-businessperson-s-specials-darren-daulton |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }} In all, the Phillies wore the "unlucky" blue caps for seven games in 1994, losing six (the lone victory a 5–2 triumph over the Florida Marlins on June 29).{{cite web |url=http://articles.philly.com/1994-06-30/sports/25834716_1_phils-leftfielder-jeff-conine-stocker-s-rbi |title=Phils Shake Off Blues, Beat Marlins Danny Jackson Pitched Eight Solid Innings For His 10th Victory. Pratt Tripled In Subbing For Daulton |publisher=philly.com |date=June 30, 1994 |access-date=June 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070038/http://articles.philly.com/1994-06-30/sports/25834716_1_phils-leftfielder-jeff-conine-stocker-s-rbi |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }} A slightly different blue cap (with a red bill) was introduced in 2008 as part of the alternate home uniform for day games, a throwback to the late 1940s.

The Phillies had several notable rivalries through history as they often clashed frequently against the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, and the New York Mets during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s. The Phillies often faced heated matchups against all three teams. Against the Dodgers and the Braves, those matchups have happened in the postseason, the Dodgers five times in the NLCS, the Braves twice in the NLDS and once in the NLCS. The fierceness of their matchups against the Mets are due to the geographic New York-Philadelphia rivalry, which is also seen in other sports.

{{Main|Mets–Phillies rivalry}}

File:Philadelphia Phillies versus New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park 9-29-2017.jpg at Citizens Bank Park on September 29, 2017]]

The rivalry between the New York Mets and the Phillies has been said to be among the "hottest" rivalries in the National League.{{cite web| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2008/04/11/2008-04-11_metsphillies_rivalry_looking_like_what_m-2.html| title=Mets-Phillies rivalry looking like what Mets-Braves used to be| last=Bondy| first=Filip| date=April 11, 2008| work=New York Daily News| access-date=June 15, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322214658/http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-phillies-rivalry-mets-braves-article-1.281288| archive-date=March 22, 2018| url-status=live}}{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=K_e8KWxmo_kC&q=Mets-Phillies+rivalry&pg=PA10 | title=Philadelphia Phillies Past & Present| page=10| first=Rich| last=Westcott| publisher=MVP Books| year=2010| access-date=July 15, 2011| isbn=9781610600989}} The two National League East divisional rivals have met each other recently in playoff, division, and wild card races.

Aside from several brawls in the 1980s, the rivalry remained low-key before the 2006 season,{{cite news |last=Bondy |first=Filip |date=May 24, 2006 |title=Despite long game, rivalry long way off |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2006/05/24/despite-long-game-rivalry-long-way-off/ |access-date=2025-02-12 |work=New York Daily News}} as the teams had seldom been equally good at the same time. Since 2006, the teams have battled for playoff position. The Mets won the division in 2006 and contended in 2007 and 2008, while the Phillies won five consecutive division titles from 2007 to 2011.{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_09_17_slnmlb_phimlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=phi| title=High Phive: Phils clinch fifth straight East title| date=September 17, 2011| access-date=September 18, 2011| first=Mike| last=Radano| website=Philadelphia Phillies| publisher=MLB| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923192343/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_09_17_slnmlb_phimlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=phi| archive-date=September 23, 2011| url-status=dead}} The Phillies' 2007 Eastern Division Title was won on the last day of the season as the Mets lost a seven-game lead with 17 games remaining. The two teams had their first playoff meeting in the 2024 National League Division Series, where the Mets won the series 3-1, while Nick Castellanos had a walk off base hit to win game two for the Phillies at home.{{Cite news |last=Zolecki |first=Todd |date=October 10, 2024 |title=Phillies’ World-Series-or-bust season ends in NLDS heartbreak |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/phillies-lose-2024-nlds-to-mets |url-status=live |access-date=May 21, 2025 |work=MLB.com}}

There is a long-standing bitter rivalry between the sports fans from New York City and Philadelphia,{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080418&content_id=2547443&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym|date=April 18, 2008|title=Wagner downplays Mets–Phils rivalry|first=Ken|last=Mandel|work=MLB.com|publisher=Mets.MLB.com|access-date=June 4, 2012|quote=Philadelphia fans hate New York fans and New York fans [hate Philadelphia fans]...Eagles fans and Giants fans don't get along, and Flyers supporters haven't been known to break bread with those wearing Rangers jerseys.}} which are approximately two hours apart by car,{{cite news|title=Mets Can't Even Pick a Good Fight|date=April 4, 2004|first=David|last=Waldstein|page=Sports.9|newspaper=The Star-Ledger|quote=You've got the proximity, a natural rivalry between the cities, and there are fans of both clubs in Jersey.}} seen also between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League, and the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers in National Hockey League.{{cite news|title=A City's Hopes Fly High on the Wings of Eagles|date=January 5, 2001|first=Peter|last=Mucha|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=A1|quote=New York teams—the Mets, Rangers, Giants and Knicks—rank among Philadelphia's most loathed rivals.}} Games between the two teams at Citi Field and Citizens Bank Park are often very intense, hard-hitting affairs, as each home crowd does its best to create an unfriendly, sometimes volatile atmosphere for any visiting-team fans.{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=555008|title=Garden memories special for van Riemsdyk|date=March 4, 2011|first=Adam|last=Kimelman|work=NHL.com|publisher=National Hockey League|access-date=March 5, 2011|quote=Games between the Flyers and Rangers almost always are intense, hard-hitting affairs...'You have that feeling when you come into Philly and you know when they come into New York the fans are going to be pumped up.'}}

{{Main|Phillies–Pirates rivalry}}

The rivalry between the Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates was considered by some to be one of the best rivalries in the National League.{{Cite news| title=In Depth: Baseball's Most Intense Rivalries|url= https://www.forbes.com/2009/04/28/baseball-best-rivalries-lifestyle-sports-baseball_slide_7.html?thisSpeed=undefined| date=April 28, 2009| work=Forbes| first=Matt| last=Woolsey}}{{cite news|title=Pirates—Phillies: A Rivalry Lost and Missed|date=July 4, 2005|first=Gene|last=Collier|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|page=D1}}{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050707&content_id=1119893&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| title=Notes: Phils–Pirates rivalry fading| date=July 7, 2005| access-date=January 3, 2011| first=George| last=Von Benko| website=Philadelphia Phillies| publisher=MLB| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714103810/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050707&content_id=1119893&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| archive-date=July 14, 2011}} The rivalry started when the Pittsburgh Pirates entered National League play in their fifth season of 1887, four years after the Phillies.{{cite web|url= http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_04_08_colmlb_houmlb_1#gid=2012_04_05_phimlb_pitmlb_1&mode=preview| title=Pirates hope to get to where Phillies are| first=Paul| last=Hagen| work=MLB.com|date=April 4, 2012| access-date=April 8, 2012}}

The Phillies and the Pirates had remained together after the National League split into two divisions in 1969. During the period of two-division play (1969–1993), the two National League East division rivals won the two highest numbers of division championships, reigning exclusively as NL East champions in the 1970s and again in the early 1990s,{{cite news| title=Pirates perform rare three-peat feat 4–2| date=September 28, 1992| newspaper=USA Today| page=5C}} the Pirates nine, the Phillies six; together, the teams' 15 championships accounted for more than half of the 25 NL East championships during that span.{{cite news| title=Pirates, Phillies Have Owned the Outgoing NL East Division| date=September 27, 1993| first=Gene| last=Collier| newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| page=D1}}

After the Pirates moved to the National League Central in 1994, the teams face each other in only two series each year and the rivalry has diminished. However, many fans, especially older ones, retain their dislike for the other team and regional differences between Eastern and Western Pennsylvania still fuel the rivalry.{{cite news| title=It's Philly vs. the Burgh| date=May 11, 2008| newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| page=B1}} The rivalry between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League is also fiercely contested.{{cite news| title=Flyers, Penguins renew nasty playoff rivalry|url= http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=418333| date=April 14, 2009| access-date=March 22, 2011| agency=Associated Press| work=NHL.com}}

{{main|Nationals–Phillies rivalry}}

The Phillies' rivalry with the Washington Nationals extends back during their original tenure as the Montreal Expos. The two teams repeatedly battled for control of the division in the early 1980s and mid 1990s. Following the franchise's relocation to Washington DC in 2005; the rivalry increased in geographic tension due to Washington's proximity to Philadelphia. The rivalry quickly spiked in intensity during the 2010s after Nationals team management introduced a campaign to block Phillies fans from overtaking home games. In 2019; star-outfielder Bryce Harper further fueled tensions after signing a 13-year $330 million contract with the Phillies as a free agent.{{cite web|url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/04/bryce-harper-phillies-nationals-home-run-rivalry|title=With one swing, Bryce Harper ignited a beautiful, new rivalry in Phillies – Nationals|date=April 3, 2019 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/bryce-harper-singlehandedly-started-a-nationals-phillies-rivalry|title=Bryce Harper singlehandedly started a huge Phillies-Nationals rivalry in one crazy night|website=MLB.com |date=April 3, 2019 }} The Nationals later managed to win the 2019 World Series during the first year of Harper's absence.{{cite news|last=Chesterton|first=Eric|title=Bryce Harper mistakenly said he wanted to bring a title to DC in his first Phillies press conference|url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/bryce-harper-wants-to-bring-a-title-to-dc|publisher=MLB Advanced Media|website=MLB.com|date=March 2, 2019|access-date=June 27, 2021}} The Phillies currently lead the series 482–445, but the Nationals lead the postseason series; when the Expos managed a 3–2 victory over the Phillies during the 1981 NLDS.

The rivalry is also mirrored in the Philadelphia-Washington rivalry, which is also seen in other sports, like between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders and the Philadelphia Flyers and the Washington Capitals. The two cities are approximately two and a half hours apart by car.

{{Main|City Series (Philadelphia)}}

File:Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics, 1905 World Series.jpg and the Philadelphia Athletics, 1905 World Series]]

The City Series was the name of a series of baseball games played between the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League and the Phillies that ran from 1903 through 1955. After the A's move to Kansas City, Missouri in 1955, the City Series rivalry came to an end. The teams have since faced each other in Interleague play (since its introduction in 1997) but the rivalry has effectively died in the intervening years since the A's left Philadelphia. In 2014, when the A's faced the Phillies in inter-league play at Oakland Coliseum, the Athletics did not bother to mark the historical connection, going so far as to have a Connie Mack promotion the day before the series while the Texas Rangers were in Oakland.{{cite web|url=http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/schedule/promotions.jsp?c_id=oak&y=2014|title=2014 Promotional Schedule|access-date=March 26, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090104/http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/schedule/promotions.jsp?c_id=oak&y=2014|url-status=dead}}

The first City Series was held in 1883 between the Phillies and the American Association's Athletics.{{cite book| title=Movin' on Up: Baseball and Phialdephia Then, Now, and Always| last1=Gordon| first1=Robert| first2=Tom| last2=Burgoyne| year=2004| publisher=B B& A Publishers| isbn=0-9754419-3-0| page=128| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yba-wMVloosC&q=Phillies+Athletics+city+series&pg=PA128}} When the Athletics first joined the American League, the two teams played each other in a spring and fall series. No City Series was held in 1901 and 1902 due to legal warring between the National and American Leagues.

{{Philadelphia Phillies roster}}

{{Main|List of Philadelphia Phillies team records}}

{{Main|List of Philadelphia Phillies managers}}

File:Gene Mauch 1961.jpg, Phillies' manager from 1960 to 1968]]

File:Charlie Manuel.jpg, Phillies' manager from 2005 to 2013 and the most winning Phillies' manager in franchise history]]

Over 126 seasons, the Phillies' franchise has employed 55 managers.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/managers.shtml|title=Philadelphia Phillies Managerial Register|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=July 23, 2008}} The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/manager|title=Manager: Definition|year=2006|work=Dictionary.Reference.com|publisher=The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language|access-date=December 29, 2008}} Seven managers have taken the Phillies to the postseason, with Danny Ozark and Charlie Manuel each leading the team to at least three playoff appearances. Manuel and Dallas Green are the only Phillies' managers to win a World Series: Green in 1980 against the Kansas City Royals; and Manuel in 2008 against the Tampa Bay Rays.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/|title=Philadelphia Phillies Team History|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=July 25, 2008}} Charlie Manuel is the longest-tenured manager in franchise history, with 1,416 games of service in parts of nine seasons (2005–2013).{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/manuech01.shtml|title=Charlie Manuel Managerial Record|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=May 18, 2016}}

{{See also|List of Philadelphia Phillies award winners and league leaders}}

Six Phillies have won Most Valuable Player Awards during their career with the team. Mike Schmidt leads with three wins, with back-to-back MVPs in 1980 and 1981, and in 1986 as well. Chuck Klein (1932), Jim Konstanty (1950), Ryan Howard (2006), Jimmy Rollins (2007), and Bryce Harper (2021) all have one.{{Cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/mvp_cya.shtml |title=MLB Most Valuable Player MVP Awards & Cy Young Awards Winners |website=Baseball-reference.com |access-date=May 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109123655/http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/mvp_cya.shtml |archive-date=January 9, 2010 |url-status=live }} Pitcher Steve Carlton leads the team in Cy Young Award wins with four (1972, 1977, 1980, and 1982), while John Denny (1983), Steve Bedrosian (1987), and Roy Halladay (2010) each have one. Four Phillies have won Rookie of the Year honors as well. Jack Sanford won in 1957, Dick Allen in 1964. Third baseman Scott Rolen brought home the honors in 1997, while Howard was the most recent Phillies' winner in 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/roy_rol.shtml|title=MLB Rookie of the Year Awards, Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman, & Rolaids Relief Award Winners|website=Baseball-reference.com|access-date=May 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530132030/https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/roy_rol.shtml|archive-date=May 30, 2018|url-status=live}} In doing so, Howard became only the second player in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in consecutive years, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles being the first.{{cite web|url= https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2669508 | title=ESPN – Howard beats out Pujols to win NL MVP Award | publisher=ESPN |date=November 22, 2006 | access-date=April 19, 2012}}

Of the 18 players who have hit four home runs in one game, three were Phillies at the time (more than any other team).See: {{section link|List of Major League Baseball single-game home run leaders|Players}}. Ed Delahanty was the first, hitting his four in Chicago's West Side Park on July 13, 1896. Chuck Klein repeated the feat nearly 40 years later to the day, on July 10, 1936, at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field. Forty years later, on April 17, 1976, Mike Schmidt became the third, with his hits in Chicago at Wrigley Field.

{{Main|List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame}}

:See footnoteFor list of Hall of Famers and years with Phillies, see [http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/hall_of_famers.jsp National Baseball Hall of Famers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619075920/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/hall_of_famers.jsp |date=June 19, 2008 }}. Philadelphia Phillies official website. Retrieved August 14, 2011.

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Johnny Evers
Elmer Flick
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{{anchor|Retired numbers}}

{{See also|List of Major League Baseball retired numbers}}

The Phillies have retired eight numbers, and honored five additional players with the letter "P" which stands for the team's name.{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/retired_numbers.jsp |title=Retired Numbers |website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com |access-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181324/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/retired_numbers.jsp |url-status=dead }} Grover Cleveland Alexander, Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton, and Sam Thompson played with the team in the era before Major League Baseball used uniform numbers, and Chuck Klein wore a variety of numbers with the team during his career. Of the eight players with retired numbers, seven were retired for their play with the Phillies and one, 42, was universally retired by Major League Baseball when they honored the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier.

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{{retired number|image=PhilsAshburn.PNG|name=Richie
Ashburn|pos=CF, TV|date=
1979{{Cite web|url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_ashburn.jsp|title=The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Richie Ashburn|website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com|access-date=July 19, 2008|archive-date=May 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525071458/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_ashburn.jsp|url-status=dead}}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsBunning.PNG|name=Jim
Bunning|pos=RHP|date=
2001{{Cite web|url= http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_bunning.jsp|title= The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Jim Bunning|website= philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com|access-date= July 19, 2008|archive-date= July 9, 2008|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080709100348/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_bunning.jsp|url-status= dead}}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsAllen.PNG|name=Dick
Allen|pos=1B, 3B|date=
2020}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsSchmidt.PNG|name=Mike
Schmidt|pos=3B|date=
1990{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_schmidt.jsp |title=The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Mike Schmidt] |website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com |access-date=July 19, 2008 |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616035016/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_schmidt.jsp |url-status=dead }}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsCarlton.PNG|name=Steve
Carlton|pos=LHP|date=
1989{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_carlton.jsp |title=The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Steve Carlton |website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com |access-date=July 19, 2008 |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525071608/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_carlton.jsp |url-status=dead }}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsHalladay.PNG|name=Roy
Halladay|pos=RHP|date=
2021}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsRoberts.PNG|name=Robin
Roberts|pos=RHP|date=
1962{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_roberts.jsp |title=The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Robin Roberts] |website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com |access-date=July 19, 2008 |archive-date=January 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109055326/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_roberts.jsp |url-status=dead }}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsRobinson.PNG|name=Jackie
Robinson|pos=2B|date=
by MLB 1997{{Cite web| url= http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/retired_numbers.jsp| title= The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Phillies Retired Numbers| website= philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com| access-date= July 19, 2008| archive-date= July 25, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080725121506/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/retired_numbers.jsp| url-status= dead}}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsAlexander.png|name=Grover C.
Alexander|pos=RHP|honored=
2001{{Ref label|GCAlex|a|a}}{{Cite web|url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_alexander.jsp|title=The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Grover Cleveland Alexander|website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com|access-date=July 19, 2008|archive-date=January 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109055638/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_alexander.jsp|url-status=dead}}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsKlein.PNG|name=Chuck
Klein|pos=RF|honored=
2001{{Ref label|CKlein|b|b}}{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_klein.jsp |title=The Official Site of The Philadelphia Phillies: History: Chuck Klein] |website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com |access-date=July 19, 2008 |archive-date=May 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516153802/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/history/phi_history_klein.jsp |url-status=dead }}}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsAlexander.png|name=Ed
Delahanty|pos=LF|honored=
2025}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsAlexander.png|name=Billy
Hamilton|pos=CF|honored=
2025}}

{{retired number|image=PhilsAlexander.png|name=Sam
Thompson|pos=RF|honored=
2025}}

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{{Main|Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame}}

The Wall of Fame was located in Ashburn Alley at Citizens Bank Park from the stadium's opening in 2004 to 2017. In 2018, the exhibit was moved to a new plaza between the left-field scoreboard and the left-field entrance of the stadium.

The Phillies Wall of Fame was started in 1978 as the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame. Until 2004, the Phillies inducted one former Phillie and one former member of the Philadelphia Athletics per year. Since 2004, they have only inducted one Phillie annually (with the exception of 2022 and 2023, when they inducted two and three Phillies, respectively). Eligible players must be retired and must have played at least four years with the Phillies. The Phillies' inductees to the Wall of Fame are listed below (note that there was no inductee for the 2017 season, as Pete Rose was planned to be inducted, but was not due to controversial allegations):File:ChuckKleinbaseballcard.jpg, 1980 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Centennial Team.jpg

File:Mike Schmidt plaque.jpg, 1990 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Dick Allen.jpg, 1993 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Tug McGraw Phillies.JPG, 1998 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Garry Maddox 1974.jpg, 2001 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Baseball pat burrell 2004.jpg, 2015 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Jim Thome on June 9, 2012.jpg, 2016 Wall of Fame inductee]]

File:Bobby Abreu in 2004.jpg, 2019 Wall of Fame inductee]]

In 1983, rather than inducting a player into the Wall of Fame, the Phillies selected their Centennial Team, commemorating the best players of the first 100 years in franchise history.

{{Main|Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame}}

{{see also|Captain (baseball)}}

• Jimmie Wilson 1927–1928
• Fresco Thompson 1928–1930
• Granny Hamner 1952–1959
• Mike Schmidt 1978–1979

{{Main|List of Philadelphia Phillies minor league affiliates}}

File:Cokepark allentown.jpg in Allentown, home of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies' Triple-A affiliate]]

The Philadelphia Phillies farm system consists of seven minor league affiliates.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/affiliate.cgi?id=PHI|title=Philadelphia Phillies Minor League Affiliates|website=Baseball-Reference|publisher=Sports Reference|access-date=November 12, 2023}}

{{See also|Philadelphia Phillies Radio Network|List of current Major League Baseball broadcasters}}

File:Phillies-Parade Harry-K crop.jpg, Phillies broadcaster from 1971 to 2009 and 2009 Wall of Fame inductee|alt=Photograph of Harry Kalas waving]]

As of 2024, the Phillies' flagship radio stations is WIP-FM (94.1 FM), formerly owned by CBS Radio, but since November 2017, is owned by Philadelphia-area company Audacy. The broadcasts were discontinued on the former AM flagship station WPHT 1210 in 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/Phillies-WIP-extend-radio-broadcast-deal.html |title=New deal makes WIP the Phillies' exclusive radio home in Philadelphia |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date= February 17, 2016 |access-date=April 24, 2016}} Scott Franzke provides play-by-play on the radio, with Larry Andersen and Kevin Stocker as color commentators. Meanwhile, NBCUniversal (a unit of Philadelphia-based Comcast) handles local television/streaming broadcasts through its properties NBC Sports Philadelphia/Peacock and WCAU (NBC Channel 10). WCAU broadcasts are syndicated to WHP-DT2 in Harrisburg and WQMY-TV in Wilkes-Barre. Tom McCarthy calls play-by-play for the television broadcasts, with John Kruk, Rubén Amaro Jr.,{{cite web |title=NBC Sports Philadelphia Phillies announces Ruben Amaro Jr. to join Phillies broadcast |url=https://www.mlb.com/press-release/ruben-amaro-jr-joins-nbc-sports-philadelphia-phillies-broadcast-team#:~:text=Amaro%20will%20be%20a%20part,to%20the%20_Phillies%20Talk%20podcast. |access-date=August 19, 2020 |website=MLB.com}} Ben Davis, Cole Hamels,{{cite web |last1=Hennelly |first1=Michael |title=Cole Hamels’ broadcast schedule will leave fans (hopefully) wanting more |url=https://thatballsouttahere.com/phillies-cole-hamels-broadcast-schedule-will-leave-fans-hopefully-wanting-more |website=That Ball's Outta Here |access-date=27 February 2025}} and Mike Schmidt{{cite news |last1=Seidman |first1=Corey |title=2021 Phillies schedule: Full TV, streaming details on NBC Sports Philadelphia |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/phillies/2021-phillies-schedule-full-tv-streaming-details-nbc-sports-philadelphia |access-date=March 30, 2021 |agency=NBC Sports Philadelphia |date=March 29, 2021}} providing color commentary.

Spanish language broadcasts are on WTTM (1680 AM){{cite web |url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/schedule/radio_network.jsp |title=Phillies Radio Network |publisher=Philadelphia Phillies |access-date=March 7, 2009 |archive-date=February 10, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210035924/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/schedule/radio_network.jsp |url-status=dead }} with Oscar Budejen or Angel Castillo on play-by-play, and Bill Kulik on color commentary.{{Cite web |title=Phillies Broadcasters {{!}} Philadelphia Phillies |url=https://www.mlb.com/phillies/team/broadcasters |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}

Other popular Phillies broadcasters through the years include By Saam (1939–1975), Bill Campbell (1962–1970), Richie Ashburn (1963–1997), and Harry Kalas (1971–2009).{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/sports/baseball/14kalas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss| title=Harry Kalas, Popular Voice of Phillies, Dies at 73 | last=Goldstein| first=Richard| date=April 13, 2009| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=May 3, 2009| page=B16}} Kalas, a 2002 recipient of the Ford Frick Award and an icon in the Philadelphia area, called play-by-play in the first three and last three innings on television and the fourth inning on the radio until his death on April 13, 2009.

At Citizens Bank Park, the restaurant built into the base of the main scoreboard is named "Harry the K's" in Kalas' honor. After his death, the Phillies' TV broadcast booth was renamed "The Harry Kalas Broadcast Booth". It is directly next to the radio-broadcast booth, which is named "The Richie 'Whitey' Ashburn Broadcast Booth." When the Phillies win at home, Kalas' rendition of the song "High Hopes," which he would sing when the Phillies had clinched a playoff berth or advanced in the playoffs, is played as fans file out of the stadium. In addition, when a Phillies player hits a home run, a recording of Kalas' famous "That ball is outta here!" home run call is played. The sole exception is Chase Utley, once the subject of another famous Kalas call, "Chase Utley, you are The Man!", which was played when Utley hit a homer.

In 2011, the Phillies unveiled a statue of Harry Kalas at Citizens Bank Park. It was funded by Phillies' fans and designed and constructed by a Phillies' fan.

The Phillies' public-address (PA) announcer is Dan Baker, who started in the 1972 season. He is the longest tenured PA announcer in Major League BaseballJensen, Mike (October 18, 2010). "One pronounced voice". The Philadelphia Inquirer.{{cite news| first=Mike| last=Shute| title=After 40 years with the Phillies, Baker's voice still choice| date=September 30, 2011| newspaper=Courier-Post| url= http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110930/NEWS01/309300020/After-40-years-Phillies-Baker-s-voice-still-choice| access-date=October 6, 2011}}{{cite web| first=Mike| last=Jensen| title=One pronounced voice: The Phillies' PA announcer prides himself on accuracy and emphasis| date=October 18, 2010| website=The Philadelphia Inquirer | url= http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20101018_One_pronounced_voice.html |access-date=October 19, 2010}}

In 2011, the Phillies spent $10 million to upgrade the video system at Citizens Bank Park, including a new display screen in left field, making it the largest in the National League at 76 feet high and 97 feet wide.{{cite web| first=Bob| last=Brookover| title=Phils upgrading their video board| date=January 20, 2011| publisher=Philadelphia Media Network| website=philly.com| url=http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-20/sports/27038745_1_daktronics-new-display-hd-experience| access-date=January 22, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225340/http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-20/sports/27038745_1_daktronics-new-display-hd-experience| archive-date=March 3, 2016| url-status=dead}}{{cite web| first=Paul| last=Hagen| title=Phillies will have biggest video board in National League| date=January 20, 2011| publisher=Philadelphia Media Network| website=philly.com| url= http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20110120_Phillies_will_have_biggest_video_board_in_National_League.html |access-date=January 22, 2011}} In 2023, the Phillies once again upgraded their left field display screen by installing a 4K HDR screen that is 77% larger than the previous one, measuring at 86 feet high and 152 feet wide.{{Cite web |title=Phillies tease 'more electrifying' home run experience as massive scoreboard nears completion |url=https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-phillies-videoboard-daktronics/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=WHYY |language=en-US}}

Since 1984, the Phillies have supported research related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) with the "Phillies Phestival".{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080728&content_id=3215926&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| title=Phillies hold Phestival against ALS| last=Horan| first=Kevin| date=July 28, 2008| publisher=Philadelphia Phillies| access-date=July 29, 2008| archive-date=August 6, 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080806010229/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080728&content_id=3215926&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| url-status=dead}} The team raised over US$750,000 for ALS research at their 2008 festival, compared with approximately $4,500 at the inaugural event in 1984; the event has raised over $10 million in its history.{{cite news| url=https://6abc.com/archive/6293003/| title=Phillies Phestival raises record amount for ALS| date=July 28, 2008| agency=Associated Press| publisher=6-ABC| access-date=July 29, 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629041341/http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Fsports&id=6293003| archive-date=June 29, 2011| url-status=live}} The ALS Association of Philadelphia is the Phillies' primary charity,{{cite web |url=http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=183 |title=The ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia |publisher=The ALS Association |access-date=July 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915115741/http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=183 |archive-date=September 15, 2008 }} and the hospitals they support include Pennsylvania Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and Hahnemann University Hospital. Former Phillies' pitchers Geoff Geary, who lost a friend to the disease,{{cite web|url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070521&content_id=1978436&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi|title=Phillies raise money, awareness for ALS|last=Santoliquito|first=Joseph|date=May 21, 2007|publisher=Philadelphia Phillies|access-date=July 29, 2008|archive-date=June 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616023912/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070521&content_id=1978436&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi|url-status=dead}} and Curt Schilling, who retired with the Boston Red Sox,{{cite web|url=http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=283 |title=Curt's Pitch of ALS 2008 |publisher=The ALS Association |access-date=July 29, 2008}}{{dead link|date=June 2016}}{{cbignore}} are still involved with the Phillies' cause.

The Phillies have a reading incentive program called Phanatic About Reading, which is designed to encourage students from kindergarten to eighth grade to read for a minimum of 15 minutes a night. This reading program is designed to help students with their literacy skills and comprehension. Phillies Phundamentals is another educational program, offered through after-school and summer camps, that is designed to make learning fun and support academic skills by using baseball.

The Phillies celebrate teachers during their annual Teacher Appreciation Night.{{Cite web|url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/community/teacher_allstars.jsp|title=16th annual ENGIE Teacher Appreciation Night|website=philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com|quote=Each year, the Phillies select 10 area teachers nominated by current and former students, parents and peers to honor as Teacher All-Stars.|access-date=June 6, 2016|archive-date=June 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625142204/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/community/teacher_allstars.jsp|url-status=dead}}

The "Cut Out Overdoses" anti-drug campaign, sponsored by Mothers Against Prescription Drug Abuse (MAPDA) and Emergent Biosolutions, manufacturer of the overdose antagonist Narcan, highlights the drug overdose problem through special communications programs at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies. (There are identical programs supported by both the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.) In 2020, the stadium, fan-empty due to the coronavirus pandemic, featured "cut-out" cardboard figures of fans filling the stands. Clicking on one of the silhouettes leads to the anguished story of the overdose death of an individual, written by family members. The story also encourages readers to take a stand by learning more about opioid-reversal medication and making a donation to MAPDA. The site reports that an American dies from an accidental opioid overdose every 15 minutes, over 35,000 people annually.{{cite web |last1=Bulik |first1=Beth Snyder |title=Emergent steps to the plate with Major League Baseball and virtual experience for opioid overdose awareness |url=https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/emergent-steps-to-plate-major-league-baseball-and-virtual-experience-for-opioid-overdose |website=Fiercepharma |publisher=Questex |location=New York NY |date=August 31, 2020}}

File:PhilsMetsFight.jpg fans at Shea Stadium in September 2007]]

Phillies' fans have earned a reputation over the years for their occasional unruly behavior. In the 1960s, radio announcers for visiting teams would frequently report on the numerous fights breaking out in Connie Mack Stadium.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=APLzAgAAQBAJ&q=Connie+Mack+Stadium+1960s+fights&pg=PA105|title=Shibe Park-Connie Mack Stadium|last=Westcott|first=Rich|date=April 9, 2012|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-4253-5|language=en}} Immediately after the final game at the old park, many fans ran onto the field or dislodged parts of the ballpark to take home with them.{{Cite book | last = Chuck | first = Bill| author2 = Jim Kaplan | title = Walk Offs, Last Licks, and Final Outs:Baseball's Grand (and Not-So-Grand) Finales | publisher =ACTA Publications | year = 2008 | location = Skokie, Illinois | page = 130 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EX2iPhcpza0C&pg=PA130 | isbn = 9780879463427}} Later, at Veterans Stadium, the 700 Level gained a reputation for its "hostile taunting, fighting, public urination and general strangeness".{{Cite book | last = Longman | first = Jeré| title = If Football's a Religion, Why Don't We Have a Prayer? | publisher = HarperCollins Publishers | year = 2006 | location = New York| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5LjeHAAACAAJ | isbn = 978-0-06-084373-1 }} Phillies fans are famously known for their reputation for being the "Meanest Fans in America".{{cite web|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dneagles/Eagles-Phillies-top-GQ-list-of-Worst-Fans-in-America.html |title=Eagles, Phillies top GQ list of 'Worst Fans in America' – Philly |website=philly.com|date=March 17, 2011 |access-date=March 29, 2018}}

Phillies' fans are known for harsh criticism of their own stars such the 1964 Rookie of the Year Dick Allen and Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt. The fans, however, are just as well known for heckling the visiting team. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Burt Hooton's poor performance during game three of the 1977 NLCS{{cite web | title = Retrosheet Boxscore: Dodgers 6, Phillies 5 | work = Retrosheet | date = October 7, 1977 | url = http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1977/B10070PHI1977.htm | access-date =June 8, 2008}} has often been attributed to the crowd's taunting.{{Cite web |url=http://articles.philly.com/2003-05-01/sports/25460574_1_milt-thompson-phils-slam |title=When grandest of slams brought loudest of roars |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Frank |date=May 1, 2003 |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219120553/http://articles.philly.com/2003-05-01/sports/25460574_1_milt-thompson-phils-slam |archive-date=February 19, 2014 |access-date=September 14, 2019}} J. D. Drew, the Phillies' first overall draft pick in the amateur draft of 1997, never signed with the Phillies following a contract dispute with the team, instead re-entering the draft the next year to be drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals.{{cite web |last=Pappas |first=Doug |title=Spring 1998: The J. D. Drew Saga |url=http://www.roadsidephotos.com/baseball/jddrew.htm |website=roadsidephotos.com|access-date=June 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070625163516/http://www.roadsidephotos.com/baseball/jddrew.htm |archive-date=June 25, 2007}} Phillies fans were angered over this disrespect and hurled debris, including two D batteries, at Drew during an August 1999 game.{{cite news |title= They were throwing batteries |url= http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/1999/08/10/cardinals_phillies_ap/ |publisher= CNN Sports Illustrated |date= August 11, 1999 |access-date= March 8, 2007 |archive-date= January 14, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140114002621/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/1999/08/10/cardinals_phillies_ap/ |url-status= dead }}

Many sportswriters have noted the passionate presence of Phillies fans. Allen Barra wrote that the biggest roar he ever heard from Philadelphia fans was in 1980 when Tug McGraw, in the victory parade after the World Series, told New York fans they could "take this championship and shove it."{{cite web | last = Barra | first = Allen | title = Curses! | work = The Village Voice | date = October 26, 2004 | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-10-26/news/curses/ | access-date = June 8, 2008 | archive-date = August 3, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080803043554/http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-10-26/news/curses/ | url-status = dead }}

When the Phillies moved to Veterans Stadium, they hired a group of young ladies to serve as ushers. These women wore maroon-colored outfits featuring hot pants and were called the Hot Pants Patrol.{{cite book| last=Westcott| first=Rich| title=Veterans Stadium: field of memories| publisher= Temple University Press| year=2005| page=100|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SwEnqr5lAssC&q=hot+pants+patrol&pg=PA100 | isbn=978-1-59213-428-1}} The team also introduced a pair of mascots attired in colonial garb, named Philadelphia Phil and Phyllis. In addition to costumed characters, animated Phil and Phyllis figures mounted on the center-field facade would "hit" the Liberty Bell after a Phillies home run. This pair of mascots never achieved any significant level of popularity with fans and were eventually discontinued. In 1978, the team introduced a new mascot, the Phillie Phanatic, who has been called "baseball's best mascot", which has been much more successful and has become closely associated with the marketing of the team.{{cite web| url= http://mlb.mlb.com/phi/community/phi_community_phanatic.jsp| title=The Phillies Phanatic| publisher=Philadelphia Phillies| access-date=July 19, 2008}}

At a game in the 1970s, the Phillies had an Easter Day promotion known as the "highest-jumping Easter Bunny."{{cite news|first=Gordon|last=Robert|title=More Than Beards, Bellies, and Biceps|date=2023-04-12|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=9781596700345|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAhzMcpwCt0C|access-date=2023-12-25|archive-date=2023-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020233649/https://books.google.com/books?id=aAhzMcpwCt0C|url-status=live}} The plan was for the Easter Bunny, who was given $1,000 and placed in a hot air balloon, to be flown out of Veterans Stadium before the Phillies game. The first fan to find the balloon would get the cash prize. However, the balloon only went three feet in the air before crashing to the ground. As he left the field, the Phillies' fans booed the Easter Bunny.

In Phillies' fan culture, it is also not unusual to replace an "f" with a "ph" in words, such as the Phillie Phanatic.{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080221&content_id=2382637&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| title=Phillies, phans enjoy phestivities| last=Girandola| first=Chris| date=February 22, 2008| publisher=Philadelphia Phillies| access-date=July 19, 2008| archive-date=June 16, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616033818/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080221&content_id=2382637&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| url-status=dead}}

The club surpassed 100 consecutive sellouts on August 19, 2010, selling out over 50% of their home games and averaging an annual attendance of over 3.1 million fans since moving to Citizens Bank Park;{{cite web| url=http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100819&content_id=13665986¬ebook_id=13665990&vkey=notebook_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| title=Phillies host 100th consecutive sellout| last=Zolecki| first=Todd| date=August 19, 2010| website=Philadelphia Phillies| publisher=MLB| access-date=August 30, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822152913/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100819&content_id=13665986¬ebook_id=13665990&vkey=notebook_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi| archive-date=August 22, 2010| url-status=dead}} on April 3, 2011, the team broke the three-game series attendance record at the ballpark, having 136,254 fans attend the opening weekend against the Houston Astros.{{Cite news|title=Martinez gets start, then gets his first hit|last=Gelb|first=Matt|date=April 4, 2011|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|id = {{ProQuest|860013785}}}}

In 2011 and 2012, the Phillies led the league in attendance with 3,680,718 and 3,565,718 fans, respectively, coming out to watch Phillies baseball.{{cite news| title=Attendance up by under 1 percent| date=September 29, 2011| agency=Associated Press| publisher=ESPN| url= https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/7035729/major-league-baseball-attendance-1-percent| access-date=September 30, 2011 |quote=The ... Phillies led baseball's attendance chart for the first time ....}}{{cite web| title=Baseball attendance increased from 2010| date=September 29, 2011| publisher=The Sports Xchange| work=Yahoo! Sports| url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=sportsxchange-000430062_baseball-attendance-increased-from-2010| access-date=September 30, 2011| archive-date=July 26, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726044636/https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news%3Fslug%3Dsportsxchange-000430062_baseball-attendance-increased-from-2010/| url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Phillies Lead MLB in Attendance For First Time Ever |date=September 29, 2011 |publisher=RantSports |url=http://www.zimbio.com/Major+League+Baseball/articles/sXdA_1ke14O/Philadelphia+Phillies+Lead+MLB+Attendance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613105819/http://www.zimbio.com/Major%2BLeague%2BBaseball/articles/sXdA_1ke14O/Philadelphia%2BPhillies%2BLead%2BMLB%2BAttendance |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2013 |access-date=September 30, 2011}}{{cite web| title=Phillies set attendance record| date=September 23, 2011| publisher= American City Business Journals, Inc.| work=Philadelphia Business Journal| url= http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2011/09/23/phillies-set-attendance-record.html| access-date=September 30, 2011}}{{Cite web| url= https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance| title=MLB Attendance Report – 2016| website = ESPN: MLB |publisher=ESPN| access-date= June 6, 2016}}

The Phillies now boast active international support groups on social media, with a Philadelphia Phillies' UK Facebook group starting in August 2015 and UK Phillies' Twitter account created in May 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/1687223914832038/|title=Philadelphia Phillies UK|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=August 19, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ukphillies|title=UK Phillies (@UkPhillies) {{!}} Twitter|website=twitter.com|language=en|access-date=August 19, 2019}} In March 2018 a Phillies' France account launched in French.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/PhilliesFR|title=Phillies FR (@PhilliesFR) {{!}} Twitter|website=twitter.com|language=en|access-date=August 19, 2019}}

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• Giles, Bill with Doug Myers. Pouring Six Beers at a Time and Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball (Triumph Books, 2007).
• Fitzpatrick, Frank. You Can't Lose 'Em All: The Year the Phillies Finally Won the World Series (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001).
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• Kashatus, William C. September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies and Racial Integration (Penn State University Press, 2004).
• Kashatus, William C. Almost A Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
• Kashatus, William C. Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code (University of Nebraska Press, 2017).
• Kulick, Bruce. To Every Thing A Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909–1976 (Princeton University Press, 1991).
• Matthews, Gary with Phil Pepe. Few and Chosen: Defining Phillies Greatness Across the Eras (Triumph Books, 2012).
• Roberts, Robin with C. Paul Rogers III. THe Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant (Temple University Press, 1996).
• Westcott, Rich and Frank Bilovsky. The Phillies Encyclopedia (Temple University Press, 2004. 3rd edition).

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