Rhys Hoskins did it again.

He hit a homerun in his third consecutive game. For the third time this season. It’s also his 18th of the season, three behind Tommy Joseph’s 21.

Incredible:

Oh, and the Phillies crushed the Marlins 10-0, thanks to a seven run second inning.

Since August 18, the Phillies are 14-12, and they no longer have the league’s worst record at 57-89. That belongs to the Giants, who are 57-91.


As much as the recent success has been great, I don’t want the Phillies to become the ’68 Eagles, and not get the top overall pick and miss out on a future hall of famer like the Eagles did. Pitcher Brady Singer would be a good get.

Phils take on the city’s former baseball team, the A’s, tonight at Citizens Bank Park. Mark Leiter Jr. takes on Daniel Mengden.

The Roundup:

With a couple days until his NFL debut with the Eagles, kicker Jake Elliott is getting comfortable after his quick turnaround from the Bengals.

Tim McManus writes on the similarity between “The Don” Andy Reid and “Skinny Andy” Doug Pederson.

“It’ll be fun to see Big Red on the other side. But at the same time, I know that he wants to kick my tail, and I want to kick his,” Pederson said of Reid, who is 8-3 against his former assistant. “Listen [that’s a Reid crutch — everything starts with ‘listen’], Andy Reid teams are well-prepared as we know, and we’ve got to do the same thing this week. We’ve got to be ultra-prepared. That’s a tough place to play now [another one — Reid loves to add ‘now’ for emphasis]. It is a loud, loud place, and we’ve got to be able to handle that crowd noise. … It’ll be fun to get out there, but once we tee it up and kick it off, it’s all about the business and all about the game.”

Reid is ingrained in Pederson. How could he not be? Their relationship spans more than two decades. As the primary caretakers of the Chiefs’ offense, they were constantly together during Pederson’s three years in Kansas City.

“For the most part, it was just he and I meeting. You get to kind of see the interruptions that you have as a head coach with the different things going on, and you’re just exposed to a few things when you’re in that seat,” Reid said.

Speaking of Reid, here’s the real story behind the former head coach having three steaks at Del Frisco’s.

https://twitter.com/mharrisCSN/status/908349649593012224

Alshon Jeffery is due for some big plays this week against the Chiefs and other fantasy football tips for Week 2.

Speaking of fantasy football, Trey Burton went undercover at Chickie’s and Pete’s during some drafts.

Marcus Hayes’ column from a couple days ago based on comments made last week stirred the pot on Twitter. And the Eagles’ Twitter account had to chime in. Torrey Smith had some thoughts as well.

https://twitter.com/TorreySmithWR/status/908418403584692224

Actual owner comments:

Back to football, we’ll have Eagles-Chiefs game predictions later today.

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More Phillies: Larry Anderson explains why he’s lessening his radio workload for 2018.

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The Flyers have sent four forwards back to their OHL junior league teams:

  • Morgan Frost (Sault Ste. Marie – OHL)
  • Isaac Ratcliffe (Guelph – OHL)
  • Matthew Strome (Hamilton – OHL)
  • Maksim Sushko (Owen Sound – OHL)

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Reviewing the new Sixers red jerseys.

Our Kevin Love saw head coach Brett Brown at the Philadelphia International Airport before going to Chicago.

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Philadelphia announced details regarding their new indoor lacrosse team.

North Philadelphia’s Jesse Hart is preparing for his September 22 bout against Gilberto Ramirez for the WBO super-middleweight title.

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In national sports news, Odell Beckham Jr. is dealing with a six- to eight-week injury.

Some late game heroics gave the Cleveland Indians their 22nd straight win.

Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch was fined $12,000 for his double middle fingers in last week’s game against the Titans.

https://twitter.com/SInow/status/906967482254196736

Alex Ovechkin admits his 2018 Olympic dream is dead, but is hopeful for 2022.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wants games on TV to resemble more like video games. That might be the way things are heading, especially with younger generations becoming more familiar with games such as Madden and NBA 2K and their use of live stats. It’s worth a shot.

The Houston Texans took away Josh Innes’ media credential.

They also beat the Bengals in a really bad Thursday night game. But this happened.

Next week’s game features the Rams against the 49ers.

Former USC Trojans running back LenDale White says he had about 20-30 concussions in his NFL career.

White estimates he sustained 20 to 30 concussions, about one every other game. But he can’t be sure. Only one was diagnosed, he says.

“You lose consciousness and then all of a sudden it’s like shoooo-ooooof,” White says, making a slurping noise, his eyes growing wide as he described the sensation. “Like, that’s how it sounds, like shhhhhhloooof, and then all of a sudden you hear the play again.” He’d wander around in a haze, Young directing him to the right spot until he regained his senses.

His head throbbed. His body ached. When his career began to slide, he slipped into a funk. Pain pills, he found, dulled the misery.

FC Koln (Cologne) fans caused early chaos before a match with Arsenal, but they traveled really well.

https://twitter.com/PintsandPyro/status/908400445848158208

https://twitter.com/AlexTasker12/status/908406018975158272

https://twitter.com/PintsandPyro/status/908417082446008320

WENGER OUT.

Someone also may have spotted Phil Jackson on the New York subway.

https://twitter.com/andrewfrnndz/status/908372061227294720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fandrewfrnndz%2Fstatus%2F908372061227294720

Floyd Mayweather had some thoughts about some of Donald Trump’s comments that were discovered last year.

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In the news, a new ping pong lounge has opened up in Center City.

An IED was detonated on the London Underground during rush hour. About 20 people are being treated in hospitals for injuries.

North Korea launched another missile over Japan.

A British newspaper reporter was killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka.

Larry King has lung cancer.

A high school near Sacramento warns that the “USA” chants could send a wrong message. This is new.

Martin Shkreli’s $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album might not even be a Wu-Tang album in the first place.