Getty Images/Ringer illustration In the past two Octobers, the Phillies were upstart wild-card winners who made surprisingly deep postseason runs. Now they're division champs and experienced playoff favorites with a bye week to worry about. Will the baseball gods still smile upon them? Internally, the Philadelphia Phillies called the break between the end of the regular season on Sunday and the start of the division series on Saturday their "Stay Hot Camp." The team earned the opportunity to use that time however it chose by finishing this season 95-67—the second-best record in baseball and, for the first time since 2011, the best in the National League East. A decade passed after that division title before the Phillies made it back to the postseason in 2022 as an 87-win, third-place wild-card team that came within two games of a championship after burning through better-on-paper teams all October. That Phillies squad—which had an air of rambunctious, upstart energy despite a top-five payroll—had struggled out of the gate, falling eight games under .500 by the end of May, before igniting at exactly the right time. The 2024 Phillies have been more lukewarm lately. They took...