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Can hottest team in baseball win 10 straight?
Monday, August 24
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The Phillies are going for a 10-game winning streak, and it’s all thanks to one of the unlikeliest comeback wins of the season.
Philadelphia has won nine in a row entering tonight’s series opener against the Mariners in Seattle (9:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV). The Phils are coming for the Braves in the NL East, too — Atlanta has lost seven of 10 games since Philly’s win streak started, allowing the Phillies to close the gap in the division from 9 1/2 games down to three.
This team has some magic going on, and we saw it last night. The Phillies were down four runs to the Cardinals with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, only to pull off an unbelievable rally to win it — on, of course, a 459-foot walk-off Schwarbomb.
How crazy was their comeback? The Phillies’ win probability dipped all the way down to 0.5% in the ninth … or, from the other perspective, the Cards had a 99.5% chance of winning before the Phils flipped the script on them.
Only one team has come back to win a game this season from a lower win probability than the Phillies. That was the Giants on June 10 against the Nationals, who had a 0.2% chance to win when they trailed 9-1 entering the eighth inning, only to come back to win 11-10 on Bryce Eldridge’s ultimate grand slam.
Heck, here’s the whole top five for you — if only because there are some fun rollercoaster win probability charts to check out:
2026 biggest comeback wins
By winning team’s lowest win probability during the game
1. Giants over Nationals, June 10 — 0.2% win probability
2-T. Phillies over Cardinals, Aug. 23 — 0.5% win probability
2-T. Twins over Royals, July 30 — 0.5% win probability
2-T. Royals over Angels, April 26 — 0.5% win probability
5. Orioles over Tigers, July 29 — 0.6% win probability
Yesterday’s game was just one of a bunch of magical moments the Phillies have already had on this winning streak. Paul Casella ranks the 10 best ones here.
So now the Phils are on the hunt for win No. 10, with Zack Wheeler on the mound. Wheeler’s normally very reliable for a “W,” but he’s actually in a little bit of a rough patch — he hasn’t gotten a win since before the All-Star break.
The Phillies would be the third team with a double-digit winning streak this season. Two fellow playoff contenders, the Red Sox (with their 15-game winning streak) and the Cubs (with two different 10-game streaks) are the only others.
GAMES OF THE NIGHT
Besides the Phillies going for 10 straight, here are three other games to watch tonight.
Red Sox at Marlins (6:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
The Marlins bounced back from a sweep at the hands of the unbeatable Phils to hand out a sweep themselves over the weekend against the Nationals. Miami is 67-64 and only four games out of an NL Wild Card spot, but the Marlins are facing a playoff contender coming off a bounceback sweep of its own in the Red Sox.
Rangers at White Sox (7:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
This is a matchup of first-place teams — even though the Rangers are one game under .500 at 65-66, that’s good enough to be tied with the Astros atop the AL West. But Texas has a tough schedule coming up. Ten of the team’s next 13 games are against division leaders: the White Sox, Brewers and Rays.
Cubs at D-backs (9:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
This is a big series for the National League Wild Card race, with the Cubs currently holding off the Phillies for the top spot and the D-backs just behind the Padres for the third and final spot. Tonight’s series opener in the desert pits Kevin Gausman against Lego lover Merrill Kelly.
THE NEWEST ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CONTENDER
The NL Rookie of the Year race is going to be one of the most interesting award races to watch down the stretch, and a new candidate has come roaring in.
It’s a Mets rookie — but not the Mets rookie you would have expected at the start of the season, when Nolan McLean was a Rookie of the Year favorite.
Now? Carson Benge has officially entered the race.
Benge wasn’t even in our top five NL candidates when we did our last MLB.com Rookie of the Year poll earlier this month. But he’s been so electric over the last few weeks that it’s impossible to ignore him now.
Benge is a power-speed threat on offense, who’s on a months-long surge at the plate thanks to a change in his batting stance. He’s up to 16 home runs and 19 stolen bases on the season.
And he’s an impact fielder, too, especially with his rocket arm in the outfield. Benge leads MLB rookies with nine outfield assists, including his ridiculous 103.9 mph throw to the plate last weekend.
The Rookie of the Year competition is still wide-open though, with Reds slugger Sal Stewart, Cardinals second baseman JJ Wetherholt, Rockies first baseman TJ Rumfield and, of course, McLean all making strong cases. This one’s probably going to come down to the wire.
WINDY CITY HAS 2-SPORT SENSATION
Sami Williams is a two-way star. Not like Shohei Ohtani is a two-way star … but let us explain.
Williams is both a star softball player with the Chicago Bandits in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League … and a star software engineer in the Cubs’ baseball operations department.
Yes, at the same time. Jordan Bastian tells her really cool story today.
First, the softball. Williams was so good in the AUSL this season that she was named the league’s Hitter of the Year. She batted .427 with seven home runs and a league-leading 34 RBIs and led the Bandits to a runner-up finish in the AUSL championship.
Now the baseball ops. Williams is part of an internal software team that helps design systems related to scouting, analytics, projections and other facets of the team’s decision-making processes. Her work for the Cubs earned her the Katy Feeney Leadership Award last year.
And now that the AUSL season is over, she’ll be right back in the office at Wrigley Field in September, just in time for the Cubbies’ playoff push.
250 FOR 250: BIGGER-THAN-SPORTS MOMENTS
We continue our 250 for 250 series today with the top 10 “bigger-than-sports” moments in baseball history.
You might be able to guess some of the big ones on here: Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, Roberto Clemente cementing his legacy as a Hall of Famer and humanitarian, Big Papi and the Red Sox rallying Boston after the Boston Marathon bombing and more.
These 10 moments meant just as much off the field as they did on it.
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Luke 14:1-6
(1) Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely. (2) And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. (3) And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” (4) But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. (5) Then He answered them, saying, “Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?” (6) And they could not answer Him regarding these things.
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Christ’s miracle of healing a man with dropsy is the last healing He performed on the Sabbath. It occurs in the house of one of Judaism’s chief Pharisees. Luke records that the lawyers and Pharisees “watched Him closely.” Their suspicious attitude set the initial mood for the meal and their intentions toward Jesus: They wanted to discover a way to make an accusation against Him. The miracle occurred under the malicious scrutiny of enemies who especially criticized Him for His healing on the Sabbath. They sat and ate with the Son of God, yet they were so blind, they could not see who He was. As a consequence, they did not know Him.
Sabbath dinners, famous for their festive entertainment, were an integral part of Jewish social life. The Pharisees were well known for their own careless approach to the Sabbath, often feasting and drinking excessively, but at the same time, they nitpicked how others kept it. They had no reservations about throwing a party on God’s day, but to heal the sick on the Sabbath was, to them, unforgiveable (Mark 3:1-6). Jesus accepted invitations to feasts (Luke 15:1-2), and was known to enjoy eating and drinking with publicans and sinners. He knew the Jewish leaders would use occasions like these to condemn Him.
This is the only case of dropsy found in the Gospels. The term the physician Luke uses to describe the man’s condition is a strictly technical one. Dropsy was considered to be a symptom of an organic disease, usually one of the heart or kidneys. What we call “dropsy” manifests itself in edema or swelling of various parts of the body.
Whether the unnamed man is an invited guest or had come only to be healed, we do not know. The healing is performed by actual contact. At Christ’s touch, the disease flees, and he is allowed to leave the feast before Jesus resumes His conversation with His antagonists. Though the man does not ask to be healed, Christ gives him the blessing of healing.
Jesus’ teaching is clear and pointed. He brings to the Pharisees’ attention that, if their acts of love toward their animals in danger on the Sabbath are acceptable, why would acts of love for human beings on the Sabbath be any less acceptable? He had taught a similar lesson earlier in the synagogue (Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-9). He compares the man with dropsy to an animal stuck in a cistern or pit (Luke 14:5) and the woman with a crooked spine to a bound animal (Luke 13:10-16). By healing the man with dropsy, Jesus proves that it is merciful to heal on the Sabbath day, and by His illustration, He exposes their lack of love and consistency.
We see here what happens to the unconverted mind because of unbelief—a lack of love is the inevitable product of rejecting God. By these Sabbath healings, He emphasizes the humane element in the original institution of the Sabbath as a day of rest, recovery, and joy, rescuing it from Pharisaic distortion. In addition, by observing the seventh day as the day of public worship, He gives it sanction as God’s weekly holy day for the church.
By these deeds of healing, He honors it specifically as a day of showing mercy. As Lord of the Sabbath, He consecrates it by His Spirit for the worship of God, as well as for the service of man (Mark 2:27-28). His constant compassion for human suffering is a mirror of His compassionate heart for sinners. He lived to relieve the afflicted and oppressed, and He died to emancipate men and women from a worse disease than that of any physical nature. By His shed blood, He can take the sinner by the hand, heal him, and “let him go” to walk in newness of life.
— Martin G. Collins
To learn more, see:
The Miracles of Jesus Christ: Healing a Man With Dropsy
Topics:
Humane Element in Sabbath Command
Rule ‘against’ Healing on the Sabbath
Spiritual Blindness of Pharisees
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