How Phillies can make 200,000 hit MLB history during Rockies game
This would be a wild feat for the Phillies to accomplish.
How Phillies can make 200,000 hit MLB history during Rockies game originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Philadelphia Phillies have been around in Major League Baseball for a very long time.
They began in 1883 and have played in well over 20,000 games in MLB history. With so many games played, there's bound to be plenty of interesting pieces of history and records that the Phillies have set over the years. One of which involves the very straightforward statistic of a hit.
One piece of MLB history the Phillies can set very soon, likely during the Colorado Rockies game on April 5th, is the hits-allowed record. As @tgpschmenk posted on Twitter/x , the Phillies are only two hits away from giving up 200,000 in their franchise history, which would make for the first team to reach that mark. Phillies just two hits away from allowing 200,000 in franchise history "No MLB franchise has given up 200,000 hits in their history," @tgpschmenk shared.
"The Phillies come into this afternoon's game in Colorado sitting at 199,998. " The Phillies have given up 199,998 hits in their 21,818 games in franchise history. Just two more hits, and the Phillies will be the first and only team to ever allow 200,000 hits in franchise history.