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Phillies weather updates: Dramatic finale's game time changed due to rain

Rain threats have forced a scheduling adjustment for the Philadelphia Phillies as they approach their crucial regular-season conclusion at Citizens Bank Park. First pitch for the squad's postseason-clinching matchup has been shifted up thirty minutes to 2:30 p.m.

ET. Across the league, the approaching storm system has also forced the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs to alter their series plans with a Friday doubleheader and a relocated Sunday contest in Florida, while two other contests lacking playoff consequences between the Yankees and Orioles as well as the Nationals and Mets were likewise moved forward.

Philadelphia enters the final stretch holding its postseason fate in its own hands, needing either a victory or a defeat by the chasing Arizona Diamondbacks to secure the National League's concluding wild card berth, though a loss combined with an Arizona triumph would push the Diamondbacks through on tiebreakers and eliminate the Phillies for the first time since 2021.

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