Daily News | Phillies and Nationals move up doubleheader to Friday as storm moves up East Coast
-Nationals doubleheader scheduled for Saturday has been moved up to Friday with rain expected to hit Washington D.C. as a byproduct of Hurricane Ian’s path up the East Coast.
The 7:05 p.m. game scheduled for Saturday was moved to 1:05 pm on Friday with Bailey Falter getting the start, and will be followed by a 7:05 p.m. game with Noah Syndergaard scheduled to pitch. The 1:05 p.m. game on Saturday will be played as originally scheduled, and Kyle Gibson will start that one.
The Phillies sent Falter and Syndergaard to Washington D.C. on Thursday ahead of the team charter plane.Zack Wheeler will make his start on Sunday at 1:35 p.m. Interim manager Rob Thomson said Wheeler, who was activated off the 15-day injured list on Sept. 21, will still be on a pitch count on Sunday, but declined to specify what it would be. This will be Wheeler’s last start of the regular season.
Syndergaard came out of the bullpen behind Wheeler in his last outing, on Sept. 21, and hasn’t made a start since Sept. 15. He threw a heavy bullpen session on Tuesday, but despite the atypical schedule, Thomson is still optimistic that Wheeler will be able to give the Phillies some length on Saturday.
“We’ll see how it goes during the day, we’ll see how he feels,” Thomson said. “But he’s a big, strong guy. He might be able to give you 90-100 pitches like he normally would. And he had a really good bullpen the other day.”Right fielder Nick Castellanos and shortstop Bryson Stott were out of the starting lineup Thursday against the Cubs with scheduled days off.
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