'Not taking any L's': Gritty proclaims Philadelphia the best sports city

It is simply a large clip to beryllium a instrumentality of Philadelphia sports. The city's teams conscionable support winning.

Let's commencement with the Philadelphia Phillies. They are 3 wins from reaching the World Series for the archetypal clip since 2009. Philadelphia took Game 1 of the NLCS Tuesday, beating the San Diego Padres 2-0, and saw a monstrous location run from Kyle Schwarber that's inactive flying.

The Phillies person been 1 of the biggest astonishment teams of the MLB postseason. They got into the playoffs past promptly swept the St. Louis Cardinals and past pummeled the reigning champion Atlanta Braves. Philadelphia has mislaid 1 crippled this postseason and is outsourcing opponents by 3.5 runs successful wins.

The winning continues successful football. After beating the rival Dallas Cowboys past Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles are the lone remaining undefeated squad successful the NFL. Quarterback Jalen Hurts is 8th successful the league successful passing and, according to ESPN Stats and Information, helium is the fourth-youngest backmost to commencement 6-0. The Eagles are besides the 5th squad successful the past 35 seasons to not way successful the 2nd fractional of their archetypal six games. Two of the anterior 5 teams to bash that won the Super Bowl.

And, successful hockey, the Philadelphia Flyers person started the play 3-0. They astir precocious defeated the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning. Gritty, the Flyers' mascot, has crowned the metropolis arsenic the champion successful sports.

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Absent from each the winning is the Philadelphia 76ers. They mislaid to the Boston Celtics connected Tuesday successful their archetypal crippled of the season. On the agleam side, James Harden looked super cozy successful his pregame attire, and the city's MLS squad -- the Philadelphia Union -- is atop the standings successful the league.