Top 5 Phillies moments in Citizens Bank Park history

No. 5: The Phillies return to the playoffs, Sept. 30, 2007

For the 2007 Phillies, their season was shaping up just like many of their previous ones. They were decent and stayed in the race, but ultimately they wouldn't be good enough to get the club back to the postseason for the first time since the fabled but extremely distant 1993 season.

Jimmy Rollins inexplicably proclaimed the Phillies to be "the team to beat" in the NL East before the season, and he was made to eat his words for much of the campaign, as the Phillies always stayed a few games back but did not feel like a threat. Things reached a low point on Sept. 12 when the Rockies thrashed the Phillies 12-0. The Phils were 7.0 games back with 17 to play.

It was over. Or maybe not, because a funny thing happened. The Phillies got hot, and the division-leading Mets went ice cold.

The Phillies won 12 of their next 16, which set up a final day scenario where if the two teams either both won or both lost, they'd have a one-game playoff. If one of them won their clash and the other lost, it was over. And so Phillies fans were rooting hard not only for their team, but for the Marlins, who were visiting Tom Glavine and the Mets that afternoon. And what an afternoon it was.

Glavine, who had spurned the Phillies years earlier to sign a free agent deal with the Mets, allowed seven runs while recording a single out, essentially putting the result to bed even before the Phillies game started. And the fans were aware, setting up a party atmosphere at CBP that day, with a "win and in" anticipation hanging over the festivities.

Jamie Moyer held the visiting Nationals to one run in 5 1/3 innings pitched, the bullpen did its job, and Ryan Howard provided the final exclamation point with a seventh-inning home run. With the Phils ahead 6-1, Brett Myers entered in the ninth inning with a chance to send the Phillies back to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, and he did.

The Phillies probably didn't get enough credit for the comeback, as most of the media focus was on the Mets' collapse, which some say finally let the 1964 Phillies off the hook for the biggest choke job down the stretch in MLB history. Hey, we'll take it.