As the Memorial Day holiday weekend approaches and the Major League Baseball season nears the two-month mark, we begin to have a clearer picture of who teams are. Good teams prove to be good, and the bad tend to remain so. You win 60, you lose 60, it’s the other 42 that determine your season.
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The Philadelphia Phillies entered Wednesday with the best record in all of baseball at 35-14, 2 1⁄2 games better than the AL-best New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians. The Phillies are winners of four straight, are tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers with the NL’s best run differential of +83, and their 261 runs scored is second only to those Dodgers’ 262.