However, the Phillies would not succeed in winning the World Series, falling in five games to the Boston Red Sox.In 1975, the finished second in NL East, the first time since the ill-fated 1964 squad. The good times did not last into the World Series, as the Whiz Kids were swept by the New York Yankees.In 1996 and 1997, the basement was home for the Phillies as mediocrity set in. Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry. Charlie Ferguson, the first Phillies star, pitched the club's first no-hitter in 1885 and won 99 games in four seasons before dying of typhoid fever at the age of 25. The Phillies won the final game behind 44 year old Jamie Moyer, who in 1980 skipped a day of high school to attend that year's Phillies championship parade down Philadelphia's Broad Street.Things remained bad for much of the 1960s, as attempts to stock the Phils with veteran players failed to produce any results.1982 saw the Phils finish in second place, with Carlton winning his fourth Cy Young Award.In 2008, the Phillies won their second World Series title. However, he was soon banned from baseball for betting on his Phillies. Pitcher Years Played With Phillies; Grover Alexander : 1911-17: Chief Bender : 1916-17: Jim Bunning : 1964-67; 1970-71: Steve Carlton : 1972-86: Roy Halladay : 2010-13 Two bright spots on the field were Scott Rolen, the 1997 Rookie of the Year, and Curt Schilling, who managed a 17 game season in 1997. The nickname inohkogfdnhgns the longest lasting name in all of baseball. Thompson was the Phils' first home run king, twice leading the league, including in 1889 when he hit the unheard of total of 20. GM Paul Owens became manager mid-season, sparking a hot streak. With a chance to regain the lead against the Cardinals, they failed to do so, and the Cardinals swept the series. It was their first since 1980. In early July, 3 losing streaks of four or more saw them lose their lead for good. Thanks to lengthy rain delays, the games did not end until 4:40 a.m., when closer Mitch Williams hit an RBI single, one of only three hits in his career.The Phillies began in 1883 by sporting goods owner Al Reach. The team soon fell to the bottom of the National League. Al Reach, who in 1866 had become the first professional baseball player and was later a successful sporting goods dealer, became the Phillies first owner along with attorney John Rogers. The team garnered the nickname the "Whiz Kids", and with an average age of 26 were the youngest team to play in a World Series to that point. Hamilton won batting titles in 1891 and 1893, the same year Delahanty led the league in home runs with 19 and in RBI with 146. They then defeated the Dodgers in the NLCS 3-1, with Garry Maddox taking MVP honors. The club would go on to win just 17 of 98 games that season, pitcher John Coleman losing 48 of them.The original Phillies began when the Worcester Ruby Legs were disbanded and the franchise was moved by the National League to Philadelphia.
They were swept by Cincinnati, then in four games by Milwaukee (both series at Connie Mack Stadium). The 1891 Philadelphia Phillies played 137 games during the regular season, won 68 games, … The cap is flat on top and has two rows of red. On the last day of the season, with the Reds and Cards tied for the lead and the Phils a game behind, the Phils beat the Reds again, but the Cards finally solved the Mets and won the pennant.The Phillies played the Kansas City Royals in the World Series. Jim Fergosi became manager in 1991, and several major acquisition were made by GM Lee Thomas, bringing in John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and pitchers Curt Schilling, Terry Mulholland, and Danny Jackson. The Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays in 5 games due to timely hitting and great starting pitching.
While they fluctuating between first and third for most of the first four months of the season, August 11 began a hot streak where the Phillies won 21 out of 27 games. - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995) The Phils finished last four times and seventh four times. In 1970, Larry Bowa and Greg Luzinski were called up from the minor leagues.
Allen would win Rookie of the Year, Bunning pitch a perfect game (the only one in Phillies history), and Callison hit the walk-off home run in the All-Star Game. In fact, they would finish in last for four years in a row, and were helped in 1962 from poor expansion clubs in Houston and New York.