Zack Wheeler has been sturdy on the mound but lack of run support and defensive struggles hindered another start from the Phillies’ ace.
One of the hardiest of all the baseball clichés is the one about how everything evens out in the long run. A batter whose line drives all seemed to be right at somebody will eventually benefit from a series of bloopers that fall in and broken bat grounders that somehow sneak through the infield, to cite a classic example.
“It’s frustrating,” said manager Rob Thomson. “For the most part, he’s pitched really well. Even in that last inning.”Added shortstop Trea Turner: “You never want to waste a start, especially when your ace is up there. It’s positive-negative because it feels like we’ve beat ourselves on those days. We were right in there for five innings and then let it get away.”
Your honor, we submit the following as evidence: Wheeler has held opponents to a .215 batting average. He’s struck out 30 while walking five. Even though he had a minor meltdown, his first of the season on Sunday, he cannot be found guilty of the team’s lack of success in games he’s on the clock. It was more of the same early Sunday. Wheeler struck out 10 in the first five innings. In the fourth, though, the Pirates scored a run that tighter defense could have prevented.
“It’s something we went through last year,” Thomson said. “And as time went on we got better at it. I know is really working hard on that and we’ll clean that up. We also gave up a lot of extra bases. You can’t do that. It was a weird game so we have to dust ourselves off and come back tomorrow and get going again.”Catcher J.T. Realmuto came up firing. Second baseman Bryson Stott, conceding the bag, cut in front to intercept the throw when he saw McCutcheon break for the plate.
Telez walked, McCutchen singled softly to load the bases and Suwinski launched a grand slam to right-center to knock the Cy Young Award candidate out of the game and put the Phillies in a hole they were unable to dig out of.
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