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Rhys Hoskins’ 2021 season is over.
The Philadelphia Phillies first baseman will omit the the leisure of the campaign, telling reporters Thursday he’ll endure belly surgical treatment next week. Or no longer it is far a brutal blow for the Phillies, who led the National League East as lately as Aug. 14.
Coming into Thursday, they trailed the Atlanta Braves by 5 video games and were 5 video games again for the 2nd wild-card space after a 2-7 skid.
Hoskins ends the twelve months with a slash line of .247/.334/.530 with 27 dwelling runs and 71 RBI.
The 28-twelve months-old used to be activated from the 10-day injured record Sunday, hit three dwelling runs in his first three video games again and then reaggravated the groin strain that triggered him to miss time in the first set aside.
As Matt Snyder of CBS Sports renowned, the Phillies are six video games over .500 with Hoskins in the lineup and six video games below .500 when he does no longer birth.
Brad Miller is at possibility of hang in in the muse horrible, even supposing it is unclear if he’ll help down the center-of-the-interpret space Hoskins handled. Through 105 video games, Miller is slashing .218/.310/.414 with 12 dwelling runs and 34 RBI. He has hit correct throughout the lineup—as soon as at No. 2 and a pair of instances in each of the Nos. 5, 6 and 7 holes—since Hoskins used to be injured Aug. 5 and landed on the IL 5 days later.
Miller will prefer to supply a boost to mercurial if Philadelphia is going to proceed animated for a playoff berth.
The membership has alternatives on the horizon. The Phillies host a four-game sequence with the final-set aside Arizona Diamondbacks beginning Thursday sooner than playing six video games at the Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins—the fourth- and fifth-set aside groups in the NL East.
Your entire month of September breaks Philadelphia’s manner, in actual fact, with fine two over-.500 opponents on tap—three video games at the Milwaukee Brewers and three at the Braves that might perhaps speak the division.
Between those two pivotal items, the Phillies play the Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs, Novel York Mets, Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates. They’ll discontinuance the humble season with three video games at the Marlins.
A route to the postseason nonetheless exists for Philadelphia. It fine got very a lot more sturdy with Hoskins out for the twelve months.
