Bryson Stott smacked a pair of home runs for the Phillies and J.T. Realmuto added a two-run shot.
SAN DIEGO — Taijuan Walker seemed like he was headed for a quality start on Sunday until he walked onto the mound in the seventh inning. Walker’s pitch count was low — just 73 pitches — and he didn’t have any sort of pitch limit entering his first outing of the season.would pull Walker in the fifth or sixth, even when his pitch count was low, but on Sunday, he decided to let him have the seventh. It did not go well.
Walker was efficient with his pitches, which was why he was in a position to pitch the seventh in the first place. He also made a savvy defensive play in the second inning to start a double play. But that seventh inning put a damper on everything he’d done in the first six. Despite that, Walker was still in line for the win. When he exited, the Phillies still had a 7-6 lead, and Johan Rojas added on in the eighth inning with a hard-hit, ground-rule RBI double to right field. It was a good all-around day for the center fielder, who made a jumping catch at the wall in the sixth inning to rob Fernando Tatis Jr.
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