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This Phillies Team Has a Chance to Finish Top Five for Most Regular Season Wins in Franchise History
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The Phillies clinched the National League East for the second year in a row, taking out the Dodgers in extra innings on Tuesday morning. They have 90 wins and 61 losses and find themselves 1.5 games behind the Brewers for the top seed going into the postseason. They’ve got a 3.5 game cushion on the Cubs while the Dodgers are five and a half back.
Obviously the Phils are the Sixers for many people at this point. Wake them up when the playoffs begin. It’s a fair position considering the disappointment of 2023 and 2024, losing to the Mutts and the Diamondbacks in backbreaking fashion.
But with 11 games remaining, the Phillies have a chance to finish with one of the best regular season win totals in franchise history, the top eight looking like this:
- 2011: 102 wins, 60 losses
- 1977: 101 wins, 61 losses
- 1976: 101 wins, 61 losses
- 2010: 97 wins, 65 losses
- 1993: 97 wins, 65 losses
- 2024: 95 wins, 67 losses
- 1899: 94 wins, 58 losses*
- 2009: 93 wins, 69 losses
- 2025: 90 wins, 61 losses
They can’t match the 2011 Phils, who mowed down anybody and everybody back then. They’re not catching the Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton Phils, barring an incredible 11-game win streak to wrap things up. But if they play .500 baseball the rest of the way, and go 6-5 or 5-6, they’ll at least match what they did last year and put themselves in a tie for 6th-most wins all time. Going 7-4 gets them into a three-way tie for fourth place with the 1993 Phillies and the 2010 Phillies, which would be pretty special.
Note that two of the teams listed above went to the World Series, three to the NLCS, and two to the NLDS. 2024 and 2011 were the playoff disappointments. In 1899 there was no postseason.* Back then, they only played 154 games, so winning 94 games actually amounted to a .618 win percentage, which is a remarkable accomplishment. That was the Phils team with Ed Delahanty, who knocked in 137 runs.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com