With good pitching, timely hitting and a three-game winning streak, the Phillies are finally looking like the good team they expected to be. Full recap from NBCSPhilly
Zack Wheeler, their co-ace starting pitcher, pitched like an ace. Well, mostly. Wheeler was scintillating to start the game, striking out seven of the first 10 Rockies he faced. Wheeler pitched six innings, five of them just exactly what his team needs from him.
“I don’t know what it is,” Wheeler said of his apparent lack of focus in that one inning. He came back and pitched a scoreless fifth and sixth, finishing with 11 strikeouts. It was Wheeler’s 10th game as a Phillie with double-digit strikeouts.“His stuff was really good today,” Thomson said. “That fourth inning took a lot of pitches. But he got it back.”
But Ortiz got Jurickson Profar, whose single started Wheeler’s fourth-inning troubles, to fly out to shallow left, then struck out Ryan McMahon to end the game. That was Colorado’s 16th strikeout of the game. After Wheeler’s rough fourth gave Colorado a 3-2 edge, the Phillies reclaimed the lead by scratching out two runs in the bottom of the inning. Two walks and a single by Nick Castellanos set up a couple of fielder’s choice RBIs, and that was that.
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