Phillies playoffs: Schedule, opponents, and everything else you need to know

For the first time since 2011, the Philadelphia Phillies are part of the MLB playoffs.

The Phillies ended their 10-year postseason drought (more than 4,000 days, by radio announcer Scott Franzke’s count) with a 3-0 win over the Houston Astros last week.

“It’s step one,” Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber said during a break from the celebration. “We deserve it. Enjoy this night. Then, when it comes to that first pitch in the postseason, it’s time to strap it on.”

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Here’s everything you need to know about the Phillies’ playoff schedule, announcers, and the rules in place for the postseason. This will be updated as more information becomes available:

The 2022 MLB playoffs began Friday with the wild-card round, a best-of-three series that features four teams from the National League and four teams from the American League. The two highest-seeded teams in each league get a bye and face the wild-card winners in the divisional round.

Here are the seeds for each league entering the playoffs, though the Cardinals, Blue Jays, and Rays have already been eliminated:

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After sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in the wild card round, the Phillies will face the Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five divisional series that begins Tuesday.

Unlike the wild-card round, the divisional series has a 2-2-1 format, meaning the Phillies would be playing at Citizens Bank Park in Games 3 and 4, if the series goes that far.

The Phillies went 8-11 against the Braves this year, the defending World Series champs who won the NL East for the fifth straight season.

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While ESPN had the exclusive television rights to all this year’s wild-card games, Fox will broadcast all the National League playoff games through the World Series. TBS will air all the American League games.

With Joe Buck at ESPN, Fox has turned to Joe Davis as it’s top baseball play-by-play announcer. He’ll be paired with Hall of Famer John Smoltz.

Here is the Phillies-Braves divisional series schedule, if a fourth and fifth game are necessary:

While the games won’t air on NBC Sports Philadelphia, they will be carried on 94.1 WIP throughout the Phillies’ playoff run.

The Phillies are selling tickets for the National League Divisional Series at Citizens Bank Park, where they’ll play Games 3 and 4 of the divisional series against the Atlanta Braves, if it goes that far.

Tickets are also available on StubHub, Seat Geek, and Vivid Seats, but the lowest tickets are already going for nearly $200 each as of Sunday morning.

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There will be no “ghost runners” during this year’s playoffs.

During the regular season, MLB brought back the designated runner, rule, which puts a player on second base to begin each half inning if a game is tied after nine innings. The rule was an attempt to preserve pitching staffs and avoid extra-long regular season games.

But during the playoffs, that rule is out the window. So if any postseason games enter extra innings, you won’t see anyone on second base.

One new rule that will be sticking around in the National League during the playoffs is the universal designated hitter, which MLB made permanent earlier this year.

The Phillies roster will also shrink back down to 26 players. The team can choose any player who was on the 40-man roster or the 60-day injured list by Sept. 1. The Phillies can carry as many as 13 pitchers, which will come in handy if a postseason game turns into a marathon.

Here is the full MLB postseason schedule. This will be updated as more games are announced. All times are Eastern.

Divisional round

Championship round

World Series