Philadelphia Phillies: 25 Most Heartbreaking Losses in Franchise History
You can’t win ’em all.”
Baseball fans don’t need beaten cliches to face reality. During the course of a 162-game regular season, even the greatest of teams are going to get unlucky once in a while. The most technically sound teams are going to make a few mistakes.
It happens. Baseball must obey those pesky mathematics and probability laws.
So what makes fans so angry when someone says something as simple as, “You can’t win them all?” That’s not a comforting statement. At its core, it basically means that from time to time, you’re going to lose.
Nobody likes losing!
Fans of the Philadelphia Phillies can multiply that statement 10,000 times. Saddled with a number of obstacles blocking their path to a winning franchise for a long time, the Phillies collected a number of losses, some more painful than others.
Even as one of the best teams in baseball in recent seasons, the Phillies have experienced a number of painful losses. That’s the beauty of this game: It always keeps you humble.
So as yet another baseball season waits just around the corner and the Phillies attempt yet another run at a World Series title, let’s prepare ourselves for the bumps along the way. Let’s take a look at some of the most painful losses in franchise history, to understand just what the Phillies are fighting for in 2012.
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osing one game is difficult.
Losing 10,000 flat out stinks.
But that’s what the Phillies, who were the first professional sports team to reach 10,000 losses, have had to go through. For most of their existence, there has been an impossible hurdle for the Phillies to jump, from terrible ownership to terrible rosters and everything in between.
On July 15, 2007, the Phillies were romped by the St. Louis Cardinals and saddled with the 10,000th loss in franchise history. The Phillies sent Adam Eaton to the mound, and more often than not, that didn’t end well.
This was no different.
Though the Cardinals hit four home runs and the Phillies scored just twice, losing a game in the middle of July wasn’t so bad. It was the painful fact that the Phillies were the first club in all of professional sports to lose 10,000 games.
