Rob Thomson penciled in Wheeler in Game 1 against the Marlins, and the pitcher delivered. As usual. Wheeler's postseason stats stack up with anyone's.
Zack Wheeler threw 100 pitches against the Marlins, 67 of them for strikes. He struck out eight batters and walked none.One hundred pitches. Sixty-seven strikes. One run. A deafening send-off ovation from 45,662 fans bedecked in the red of a most jubilant Philadelphia October.
The best, like Justin Verlander. Like Max Scherzer. Like Gerrit Cole and Corbin Burnes and Sandy Alcántara, the Marlins’ ace who, unlike Wheeler, won’t pitch in this series or this postseason, because Alcántara is hurt. But then Wheeler failed to cover first base quickly enough on a ground ball to second to beat Jake Burger; perhaps Wheeler assumed that inexperienced first baseman Bryce Harper would cover, since the ball was hit so far to Harper’s right that he had to dive for it.
That was that. Wheeler had done his job. His latest masterpiece continued a seven-game run of superb postseason starts, all with the Phillies in the last two autumns. His performances stack up with anyone’s.Wheeler’s playoff ERA now is 2.55, which is a better first seven starts than Randy Johnson , Roger Clemens , Scherzer , and Verlander .He is vastly underpaid.In his previous 15 starts Wheeler was 6-2 with a 3.17 ERA.
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