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The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s National League. The Phillies have won two World Series championships (against Kansas City in 1980 and Tampa Bay in 2008) and seven National League pennants, the first of them in 1915. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883.
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The club was founded in 1883 in Philadelphia. The Phillies played their first game on May 1, 1883, losing to the Providence Grays 4-3. They would lose eighty-one of their first ninety-eight games. Hall of Famer Harry Wright took over the team and for the next ten years they finished out of the first division only once. Wright added some great players, most notably “Big Ed” Delahanty who hit over .400 three times, won a batting title, hit four home runs in a game in 1896, and was the slugging leader in 1893 (nineteen home runs & one-hundred forty-six runs batted in). In 1894, “Big Ed” was a member of an All-Hall-of-Fame outfield with Sam Thompson and “Sliding” Billy Hamilton. All three hit over .400 that year, and Hamilton set a record by scoring one-hundred ninety-two runs. He won two batting titles and four stolen base crowns (hence his nickname), and Thompson twice led the league in home runs.
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The Phillies struggled immensely in the first decade of the 20th Century after the American League signed away their three biggest stars – Delahanty, Elmer Flick and Nap Lajoie – all future Hall of Famers. Their rebound started when they signed a young Grover Cleveland Alexander. One of the greatest pitchers of all time, he won twenty-eight games as a rookie in 1911. He averaged twenty-seven wins in his seven years with Philly, winning thirty-plus games three times and twenty-plus games each year but 1912 when he won nineteen. In 1915, he had one of the all-time great seasons (31-10, 1.22 ERA, twelve shutouts, four one-hitters and two-hundred sixty-four strikeouts) and led the Phillies to the pennant. His battery mate, Gavvy Cravath was the league’s premier slugger, hitting a then-record twenty-four home runs. The Phils lost to the Red Sox in the World Series, winning the first game by two runs, but then losing four in a row, all by one run.
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In 1980 the Phillies played in their first World Championship. They won the National League Championship Series over Houston, and then defeated Kansas City in the World Series in six games. The Phils won a half-season pennant but lost to Montreal in the strike-forced 1981 Division Series. They were back on top in 1983 with Carlton winning his three-hundredth game. The Phils defeated the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series but lost to Baltimore in the World Series.
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In 2008, led by Jamie Moyer, Brad Lidge, Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard, the Phils fought past the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers to reach their first World Series since 1993. After a wild, wet Game 5 that took 3 days to complete, they took their second World Series Championship when they defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 4 games to 1.
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Since 2004, the team’s home has been Citizens Bank Park in the South Philadelphia section of the city.
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