On a day the Phillies struck out 18 times, Kyle Schwarber drove in both of their runs to close out a 7-3 road trip.
lacked his typical control of secondary pitches, so he had to lean on his fastball. He gave up an unusually high number of foul balls and fell into deep counts.But it’s days like Wednesday, when the stuff isn’t as sharp, that test an ace’s mettle. For a second start in a row, Wheeler overcame command issues, grinding through five innings in the Phillies’ 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels to secure another winning series and complete a 7-3 road trip.
The Phillies’ best start since 2011 is built on starting pitching. Wheeler leads a rotation that has a 2.52 ERA after he yielded one run to the Angels on five hits. After giving up a leadoff double to Nolan Schanuel in the fifth inning, Wheeler kicked at the mound. After retiring the next three batters to strand Schanuel at third base, he begrudgingly shook managerMLB’s best rotation? Alec Bohm an All-Star? Buy or sell the top storylines from the best Phillies April in 13 years.
“He’s a perfectionist,” Thomson said before Wheeler faced the Angels. “He really is. He wants to have a every time he runs out there, and he knows that you’ve got to eliminate walks to go deep into games.”
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