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The Phillies’ Power Struggles at Citi Field are Laughable
By Kyle Pagan
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Someone on the training staff needs to juice the Phillies up when they’re playing the Mets at Citi Field. Make sure they’re doubling the dosage of their vitamins and getting some extra protein because when this built-to-slug offense gets to Queens, they lose all their power. It’s like the Monstars came down from Moron Mountain and took all of the Phillies’ ability to hit the cover off the ball. This is what it has to be like playing baseball on the Gravitron:
Two home runs in the last seven games at Citi Field and one was from Harrison Bader, who has been on the team for a month. Not great, Bob! What is it about Citi Field that the Phillies just lose their ability to slug? Is it the parabola mics transmitting supersonic frequencies that knock the ball down? Are the Mets working with the air traffic controllers at LaGuardia to make sure they’re producing jet streams from takeoffs and landings only when the Phillies bat? Do the Phillies just not have enough dog in them? They look petrified when things go wrong in that place. This is basically the same team from 2022 that took it on the chin and kept moving forward. Not anymore. The Mets are our daddy and Citi Field is a House of Horrors for these guys. Maybe it’s a product of their comfortability they so greatly desire when Dave Dombrowski poo-poos bringing a prospect up to The Show. When the tough get going the Phillies walk with their tail between their legs. The only guy who showed a little fight Tuesday night was Jesus Luzardo motherfucking the umpire after getting pulled. I mean we’re talking about a team that hits a home run 23% of the time during at bats staring down the barrel of 0.8% at Citi Field. What gives?
Look at how they’ve massacred my boy:
The player that is worst at Citi Field is Schwarber. He does not have a hit in this series. Did not have a hit at Citi Field in the NLDS. He was 2-13 at Citi Field in April.
— Spike Eskin (@SpikeEskin) August 27, 2025
All told he is 2-26 in the last 7 games at Citi Field without a home run. Has been up in huge spots.
A top-5 MVP turns into a Little Leaguer at Citi. And don’t get me wrong, Citi has never been known as a home run park and definitely not as much as Citizens Bank Park is, but there’s something that has to give. The Mets play significantly more games at Citi than the Phils do and they’ve got four guys with 20+ home runs compared to the Phillies, who have just two. There has to be a reason the Phillies are hitting the ball basically into the space-time continuum. Get me the tinfoil hat.
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com