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After a heartbreaking end to an otherwise solid season in Philadelphia, Phillies manager Rob Thomson will not be removed from his position. The Post’s Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman confirmed this.
The Phillies went 96-66 and easily walked away with the NL East division title before things unfolded in the NLDS, where they fell to the Dodgers in four games.
The series ended when pitcher Orion Kerkering belted out a comebacker with the bases loaded and the score tied at 1-1 in the 11th inning, giving the Dodgers an error-laden 2-1 walk-off victory.
There had been rumors of mismanagement that fueled the Phillies’ early exit, with Thomson calling for a controversial bunt from Bryson Stott in the ninth inning of Game 2 while trailing by one run with a runner on second base with no outs.
Castellanos would be tagged out trying to reach third base on the bunt, and the Phillies eventually fell 4-3, to fall into a 2-0 series hole.
“Just left on the left. I’m trying to even the score,” Thomson said after the match. “I liked where our bullpen was compared to theirs. We’re playing at home for the draw.”
Some further ripped Thomson for running to Harrison Bader later in the ninth after failing to do so for Castellanos.
The Phillies’ NBC postgame crew got into a shouting match over that call.
“What Rob Thomson did was not a pinch run,” Michael Barkann said on the postgame show. “He butted heads with Stott when he could pinch-run.”
There is also some growing frustration in the City of Brotherly Love, as the Phillies are now 2-8 in their last ten playoff games and have lost their last three series from the 2023 postseason.
They blew a 3-2 NLCS lead to the Diamondbacks in 2023 even with Games 6 and 7 at home, fell to the Mets in the NLDS last year as the higher seed and lost again this year as the higher seed.
Thomson still has one year left on his contract as the team looks to keep the team together and a number of players are entering free agency.
President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski will have his work cut out for him as free agents Kyle Schwarber, Ranger Suárez and JT Realmuto could leave this winter.
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