Daily News | Taijuan Walker and Kyle Schwarber do just enough as Phillies beat Detroit, 1-0
kept insisting that Taijuan Walker is healthy, there was one thing they could no longer deny: He hasn’t appeared at ease on the mound this season.“I think he’s finding something,” Rob Thomson said. “I’m kind of excited to see him pitch.”
And they did it behind lockdown starting pitching. Aaron Nola took a no-hitter into the seventh inning Monday night, and Walker followed it up with an honest-to-goodness gem. “He’s been trying to get some rhythm in his delivery and just doesn’t feel like he can get it,” Thomson said. “And his bullpen session the other day in Washington was outstanding.”
And that fastball velocity? It ticked back into the mid-90s. Two of Walker’s first three pitches topped 95 mph. He froze Short with a 96-mph heater for a called third strike to end the second inning. Six days earlier against the Mets, he topped out at 94.4.
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