PHILADELPHIA — Same uniforms. Same home park. Many of the same names.

But this just isn’t the Phillies team I watched play the Mets 19 times this year. They won five of those games. I have no idea how.

I watched Alec Bohm make three errors in one April game against the Mets and get caught on camera mouthing, “I hate this [bleeping] place” after being booed into submission at Citizens Bank Park. I witnessed the Mets assemble a seven-run ninth inning at Citizens Bank in May to win 8-7 against a Phillies bullpen more flammable than an oily rag. There was the game in August at Citizens Bank in which the Mets trailed 4-0 and 7-4 and won 10-9, in part, because a former bank employee named Nate Fisher, in what might be his only major league game ever, threw three shutout innings of relief.

For most of this season, the Phillies were booed at home during games like those. They were top-heavy in talent without enough depth or defense or relief pitching. They finished 14 games behind the Braves and Mets. They were the last of 12 teams to qualify for the playoffs. Keith Hernandez was right about that team.

But this isn’t that team.

“I’ve never personally seen a club come together like this in my life from what it was to what it is,” Phillies owner John Middleton said in the clubhouse after his team beat the Astros 7-0 on Tuesday night in Game 3 of the World Series. “It’s just astonishing. It’s breathtaking. It’s literally like night and day.”

This version of the Phillies is now two wins from a championship. This one executes on defense, shuts down opponents with its bullpen and has turned Citizens Bank into the loudest support system in sports. It’s a red-towel-waving, decibel-raising lovefest. In Philadelphia. In 2022. It may be the greatest makeover, do-over, it-ain’t-over-’til-it’s-over in the history of sport.

“It was not pretty,” Middleton remembered. “I mean, the stuff you saw, they [the fans] saw and they didn’t like it.”

The key demarcation point cited by Middleton was the 50-game mark, when the Phillies were 21-29 and president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski advocated firing Joe Girardi as manager and replacing him with bench coach Rob Thomson. Since that June 1 decision, the Phillies have gone 77-49, including 11-3 in the playoffs against the Cardinals, Braves, Padres and now the Astros.

“A lot of those 19 games [against the Mets] came early in the year back when Joe was running the club,” Middleton said. “I think Rob’s just right for this club; the right person, the right personality, the right touch, the right guy for this group. If they were a different group of guys, you probably would want somebody like Joe, but it wasn’t the right fit for our guys.”

Whatever the elixir, the Phillies have roamed into the inexplicable realm — the hot October (now November) team that rides confidence and momentum. For example, by nearly any measure, Nick Castellanos was the majors’ worst defensive right fielder. Somehow he has become the offspring of Mookie Betts and Aaron Judge. He saved Game 1 for the Phillies with a sliding catch and made a similar one against Jose Altuve on the first pitch Tuesday night. And the Phillies were off to taking a two-games-to-one lead in the 118th World Series.

Actually they were on … just about every Lance McCullers pitch; most of which were off-speed. Four of the five homers the righty yielded were on off-speed pitches. That was no misprint. Five homers. It is a postseason record against one pitcher.

McCullers had permitted one homer to a lefty in 96 plate appearances this year. That was by Kyle Schwarber on the first pitch of an Oct. 3 Phillies win that clinched their playoff spot. Houston probably wishes now it had swept and perhaps kept the Phillies out of the playoffs. For in World Series Game 3, McCullers permitted three homers in nine lefty plate appearances.

The one to Bryce Harper, a two-run homer in the first inning as the fans chanted “M-V-P,” set the tone to madhouse. And Houston manager Dusty Baker stuck with McCullers through two homers in the second (Alec Bohm and lefty Brandon Marsh) and two in the fifth (Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins).

The 7-0 lead allowed Thomson to use secondary relievers to cover the final four innings after starter Ranger Suarez began the shutout chain. It means Thomson has his best relievers fresh for Games 4 and 5 and the once flammable pen now has thrown 12 ²/₃ scoreless innings in this series. That helped the Phillies run their home playoff record to 6-0. If it gets to 8-0, they will be champs — and this crowd is making a noisy impact.

Not with boos any longer. That was for a different Phillies team.