{"id":780408,"date":"2026-08-16T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780408\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:06:19","slug":"game-125-phillies-at-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780408\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 125: Phillies at Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fifty years ago, a little film about an underdog boxer was released to theaters\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Made for one million dollars\u2014a relative pittance for films even in \u201876\u2014the flick about an unlikely pugilist from Philly went on to gross $225 million and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eTTneX9HR6w?si=yh9Nkb0Q9Qh_0v7z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take home the Academy Award<\/a> for Best Picture against all odds. It perhaps goes without saying, but the movie is a personal favorite of mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rocky is still bucking the odds\u2014connecting and inspiring new audiences even in 2026! So, with the Minnesota Twins hosting the Philadelphia Phillies this afternoon, here are a few upcoming ways in which one can revel in 50 years of Rocky:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Perhaps the coup de gras of any potential Rocky experience? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theyophillyfilmtour.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yo, Philly! Film Tour<\/a> led by Mike Kunda. My brother and I did this tour a couple of years ago and it is absolutely incredible! There is no greater authority on Stallone\/Rocky out there than Kunda, and his private tour will take you to iconic locations across all the Rocky films. Truly one of the best tours I\u2019ve ever experienced!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Not many films get this outpouring of support 50 years after their release\u2014but Rocky is special in that way. Let\u2019s see if the Twins can embrace that underdog mentality and defeat the Phillies this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">(Recap will be later-than-usual today as I\u2019ll be celebrating my nephew\u2019s 5th birthday. He\u2019s into Legos right now, so I got him a Lego DeLorean set from Back To The Future. Start \u2018em young\u2014hahaha!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifty years ago, a little film about an underdog boxer was released to theaters\u2026 Made for one million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,80253,3190,4,148],"class_list":["post-780408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-baseball","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesota-twins-discussion","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117106519785200362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780408","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=780408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}