BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – The Philadelphia Phillies are battling it out against the Atlanta Braves, and as the third game of the Wild Card series continues tonight, fans are filling local bars.<\/p>\n
It’s a packed house at PJ Wheelahan’s as fans cheer on the Phillies during this make-or-break moment. Customers tell 69 News it’s not only that they want this team to win, but that they need to win.<\/p>\n
“Go, Phils,” says local Anthony Ronca. Ronca was among the large crowd packing the PJ Wheelahan’s Thursday night as the Philadelphia Phillies take on the Atlanta Braves in game 3 of the National League Wild Card series.<\/p>\n
Northampton native Kyle Ifkovits says this is going to be an interesting and close game.<\/p>\n
“Huge rivalry, I mean Atlanta’s always in it, they’re always good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ifkovits says he wants one thing for the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’d be nice to see them take down Atlanta for sure,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Although the team is currently losing, the fans still have faith in the Phils.<\/p>\n
“I think these guys are gonna pull it out tonight; there’s nothing else they can do,” explains Bethlehem native Ben Markovitch.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be a huge deal; it’ll be a better night for us, we’ll finish our beers, we’ll enjoy ourselves,\u201d Ronca went on to say.<\/p>\n
As hope runs high, many think the Phillies need this win against division rivals.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re coming to the end of an era with these Phillies right now with this team, and they’ve gotta pull off a World Series sometime soon,” says Markovitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, how it ended, this team, not too many chances with how old they’re getting,\u201d Ifkovits said.<\/p>\n
Locals like Ryan Kratzer say this is the push the Phillies need to make it into the next round of playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can ride some momentum into the next game against the Dodgers,” he said.<\/p>\n
Either way, the team spirit will stay alive.<\/p>\n
“We’ll still finish our beers; it’ll be alright if they lose,” says Ronca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – The Philadelphia Phillies are battling it out against the Atlanta Braves, and as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391],"class_list":["post-298073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}