NL Wild Card standings: Where will the Phillies land?

Aaron Nola has saved the Philly season. Yeah. When you think about it. Right. I mean, if you if Aaron Nola over the course of his last eight to 10 starts up as great as he's been, if he was pitching in this time, like he was at the beginning of the season, where are the Phillies right now? Yeah. Probably not in a playoff spot. Yeah. Right. I mean, so in a lot of ways, you can push it back to Aaron Nola and say, he has kind of kept them afloat. Totally. Because Sanchez has not been as good. He's been OK, but not as good. Lozardo being hurt. Wheeler went through that month where he struggled. You know, he's back. But I mean, they needed Aaron Nola to do what he's done, otherwise they'd be chasing a playoff spot. I'll take it another step further. He's your game two starter right now. Wheeler game one, Nola game two, assuming Sanchez keeps pitching the way he is. But before you respond to that, here's the fan cam on Aaron Nola. Well, after being down on Nola for the last couple of years and most of this season, I have to give credit where credit is due. He's returned back to form, only gave up three earned runs once in the last 10 starts. And he's reduced the amount of gopher balls that he's given up. And who would have thought it? The Phillies, three sacrifice bunts and two sacrifice flies in the same game. There's still hope. Let's go, Phills! Thanks, Paul. So, I know it's probably recency bias, but I'm not liking what I'm seeing with Christopher Sanchez. There's not a lot of depth in the rotation right now without Lozardo. So tonight we're going to see Tim Meza. What's he going to pitch? About an inning or two? Well, I mean, he did pitch yesterday, although it was only three pitches. He came in after the bowling injury. So I don't know, maybe an inning at most two. The guy you're going to see tonight is the guy they just picked up off the waiver wire, which is Jose Urquidy, who came over from the White Sox. The thought process is he can probably give you three to four innings. So they're going to try and get their way through. This is a bullpen game tonight. They're going to try and get their way through it and see if they can. They're going to need these guys to do this. You got this start and at least one more with the bullpen. There's a possibility that they have to do it a third time if you're trying to save Zach Wheeler for game one of the playoffs. So it's going to be interesting to see how these guys come through for the Phillies, especially here's some news. Bolin not going on the aisle, but he's probably, you know, they're going to kind of take their time with him. If he went on the aisle, he wouldn't be available for the wildcard series. So he may not be available. So they're going to go down one pitcher for probably the last nine games of the season unless Bolin can come back before the season ends next weekend. Oh, look at that. That is, that is breaking news here on the fantastic sports show. Let's take a look at the standings right now, because Anthony, this is, this is nuts. Last year around this time, we were cruising. The Phillies already had their playoff spot clinched. They won the division. Everything was fine for like the final two, almost three weeks of the regular season. This, this is some nut, look at this. This is nuts right here. So close. And it could change really, you know, so many times throughout the course of these, what, final nine games, nine, nine. How do you feel right now and where do you think the Phil's will land? You know, I do think that they're still going to end up hosting the wild card and I know I'm kind of in the minority a little bit there.