{"id":654941,"date":"2026-03-31T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654941\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:36:31","slug":"looking-for-the-good-in-the-first-four-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654941\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the good in the first four games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">It\u2019s hard to find optimism right now with the Phillies. They\u2019ve largely stunk something fierce during these four games they have played so far, so looking for any kind of good can be a challenge. However, needles, haystacks, yada yada yada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But let\u2019s try together. Let\u2019s look for some of those rainbows in the clouds that are hovering over Citizens Bank Park. I have a few ideas about things that were positive.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You might have some other ideas. Admittedly, I have missed a few innings here and there thanks to some more pressing matters (i.e. children\u2019s travel sports. IYKYK), so maybe there is something here that I didn\u2019t mention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mention it! Talk about it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Phillies fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sign up here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to find optimism right now with the Phillies. They\u2019ve largely stunk something fierce during these four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,5782,1628,9636,5159,4,144,25,4216,40,69,83724],"class_list":["post-654941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-baseball","tag-citizens-bank-park","tag-getty-images","tag-icon-sportswire","tag-justin-crawford","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-texas-rangers","tag-yada-yada-yada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116325239147108916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}