The endless suffering of Philadelphia sports continues.

The 2024 Phillies season is over, falling in embarrassing fashion to the division-rival New York Mets. The Phillies won one game in which they scored seven runs, and if you take away Game 2, they scored 5 runs in the other 27 innings of baseball.

It sucks. The players don’t want it to end like this. The fans don’t want it to end like this. The city of Philadelphia doesn’t want it to end like this. But a 95-win season that led to the first division title in 13 years has officially been thrown in the garbage.

It was a brutal series for Alec Bohm. The player who had an OPS over 1.000 back in May now looks like he’s becoming his old-self. Bohm finished the NLDS just 1 for 13. His at-bats weren’t good. Bohm’s defense regressed and we saw the bad habits of seasons past. His only hit was a ball to the wall, where he would eventually get thrown out at second trying to stretch it to a double.

This clubhouse is going to look a lot different next year, and there’s a chance it could start with Bohm. He looked completely lost mentally and physically lost the last few weeks. His powerful, level swing that we saw the first four months of the season disappeared.


Despite everything, Bohm claims he knows where he’ll be next year. Tim Kelly of On Pattison asked him about the last few weeks, and if Bohm believes he got to a bit of a crossroad. Bohm, who is under team control through 2026 and going into his second arbitration year, had a short answer…

“No, I know where I’ll be next year” – 

Elsewhere in the clubhouse, Bryce Harper admitted the team wasn’t good enough when it mattered. Nick Castellanos, who was the best offensive player of the NLDS (7 for 17), had a really awesome quote. But quotes don’t matter in October, results do. And the Phillies had none of that:

The season is over. They came up short…again. Grimace, OMG signs, and the New York Mets are heading to the NLCS, and the Phillies are going home.