As the Phillies fought to keep their season alive in Atlanta during the final week of the season in 2021, Ryan Howard, who stopped by to take in the action with his family, offered some perspective on the club’s frustrating postseason drought.
“It’s just gotta be one of those things where it’s gotta be a bad taste in your mouth,” Howard said at the time. “Ultimately, you just get to the point of saying, ‘I’m tired of not making it’ and just decide that you’re going to make it.”
Well, the Phillies finally made it and unlike Howard’s 2007 squad that failed to win a playoff game, the 2022 Phillies got much more than just a taste of the postseason.