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Phillies

Phillies

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A professional baseball team from Philadelphia that plays in Major League Baseball
  • proper noun
  • /ˈfɪliz/
: Filadelfia Phillies
  • His father played for the Cardinals, Red Sox, and Phillies in the late forties and mid-fifties.
  • Philadelphia Phillies
  • the Phillies win
  • Phillies fans

It's a, it's a, it's the Dominican League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Examples

  • I think what the Phillies need is right-handed batters that can hit left-handed pitching.

    Blog text (4)

  • In August 1992, Lankford knocked in the game-winning run off the Phillies' Mitch Williams in the 10th inning.

    Blog text (1)

  • Or they can Google me and go to my Twitter or hopefully find me at a Phillies game when they win the World Series.

  • On my eighth birthday, he took me to a Phillies game.

    Hidden Colors (2011)

  • The Phillies have managed to tie it up at 4-4.

    Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

  • The Philadelphia Phillies had won the World Series.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I just hope we get by The Phillies tomorrow, Burt.

    Here Come the Tigers (1978)

  • I pray the Phillies win the pennant.

    Philadelphia (1993)

  • The Phillies had the pennant sewn up at the end of a wonderful season.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • On my eighth birthday, he took me to a Phillies game.

Surface Forms

Phillies main

Morphology

Phillies = Philly (semi-transparent) = Philly + ies

The team name is based on the city nickname 'Philly', but the form and meaning are conventional rather than fully compositional.

Etymology

Phillies (baseball) is a short form for people from Philadelphia, and the city name Philadelphia means 'brotherly love'. So the team name simply shows that the players and the club belong to Philadelphia and its fans.