The Philadelphia Phillies are approaching the fall quickly with hopes and dreams of postseason baseball. The long season that began way back in spring is coming to a close and the Phillies are looking to make an appearance in the playoffs with potential tickets to the World Series. The team is expecting the big things to happen as the temperature cools down but the action continues to heat up.
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The Phillies began playing well before the National League was even formed, but trail many teams in championships. The first World Series came 97 years after the team first took the field. The Phillies made a run in 1980 with baseball greats like Pete Rose, Mike Schmidt (who won the MVP that year), and Steve Carlton (who won the Cy Young that year). The team finished 91-71 and had playoff tickets for a first round match up with the Houston Astros.
The Phillies went the distance in the National League Championship Series, winning 3 games to 2, and then met the Kansas City Royals in the World Series. It was a battle of the MVP third baseman as Schmidt and George Brett’s teams collided in six games that saw the Phillies win out 4 games to 2. The World Series tickets would not be the last for the Phillies, but it be the last victorious tickets as the Phillies made playoff runs in the next few years that ended just short of a championship.
The 1983 team fell to the Orioles in five games after Schmidt, Rose, and company easily took down the Dodgers in the NLCS. The Phillies waited a decade before releasing playoff tickets. In 1993, the scraggily long haired roster of John Kruk, Darren Daulton, Lenny Dykstra, and Curt Schilling were the self-professed 24 morons and one Mormon. The team held off the Expos and denied the Braves a trip to the fall classic.
In the World Series the Phillies met the Blue Jays. Tickets were highly anticipated as the surprising team from the National League tried to overcome the odds and the experts’ predictions and defeat Toronto. Philadelphia tried to come back from a 3-1 deficit, but fell in the sixth game after a Joe Carter’s ninth inning homerun off Mitch Williams sealed the Phillies fate.
Philadelphia is back though and any hope for those with playoff tickets lies with the sluggers. Ryan Howard, Pat Burrell, and Chase Utley may not be the best contact hitters in the game, but the trio is able to erase leads with a single swing. The pitching only goes two deep with Cole Hamels and Jamie Moyer, but there is still hope that mid-season acquisition Joe Blanton will step up and justify the trade.
The Ticket Specialists have those Philadelphia Phillies playoff tickets that everyone wants. The amazing prices and the incredible inventory make the ticket broker the best stop on the way to the ball game at Citizens Bank Park. The seating chart and the playoff schedule make sure every fan knows where they are sitting at the game and make sure any changes have been noted. The Ticket Specialists are simply the people to visit for a chance to see the Phillies to prove history wrong and try for a second World Series victory.