#IronPigs #regular #hitting #matter #hes #called NEW YORK β Even before rain complicated a rather meaningless season-ending series, Weston Wilson understood his job at Triple-A was to stay ready. Around his storybook big league debut in August and a brief September cameo, Wilson kept right on hitting. He could get a postseason look down the…
#Walker #offers #mixed #reviews #regular #season #outing NEW YORK β A busy yet meaningless-to-the-standings final weekend in New York has forced the Phillies into a bit of a roster sleight of hand. Behold, with one flick of Dave Dombrowskiβs wand, how one roster spot becomes three pitchers in two days. Dylan Covey was placed on…
#Reliever #options #offered #audition PHILADELPHIA β Jeff Hoffman had plenty on his mind when he took the trip down the Northeast Extension in late April. The veteran of 130 Major League games wasnβt where he wanted to be β namely, in Triple-A β and wasnβt pitching the way he wanted to, as the ERA of…
#Phillies #time #prep #pitching #Wild #Card PHILADELPHIA β A year ago, the Phillies got little more than an exhale between flights on the barnstorming road trip that led them to the postseason and ultimately the World Series. This year, with a week of post-clinch premeditation, is much different. Rob Thomsonβs task is to make that…
#Fielding #whiz #center #bad #plate PHILADELPHIA β The popped corks came after the base hit, the base hit came after the opportunity and the opportunity came after the loose screw. Such has been the unlikely, unexpected chain of baseball circumstances that has begun to build the legend of Johan Rojas. βIβm not going to lie…
#Team #party #anthem #added #color #postgame #celebration PHILADELPHIA β Bryce Harper rushed to the field with his Phillies teammates Tuesday night, ready to kickstart another postseason clinching bash. But Harper β and all the Phillies β needed to hear the song to really believe the playoff berth was real. Philadelphia had to play the anthem…
#challenges #postseasonbound #Phillies #flinched PHILADELPHIA β No one quite knows who ultimately gives the OK to start wheeling crates of champagne into a fall-time baseball clubhouse, only that when it happens there is no reason to look back. βI never thought about it,β Rob Thomson was saying the other day, admitting that in-house celebrations are…
#Philadelphia #Phillies #clinch #wildcard #berth #postseason #straight #year #- PHILADELPHIA β The National League champion Philadelphia Phillies clinched a wild-card berth, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 in 10 innings on Tuesday night on Johan Rojasβ RBI single that set off a wild celebration in the outfield. Rojasβ single off Pirates reliever David Bednar (3-3) scored…
#Rhys #Hoskins #turning #power #return PHILADELPHIA β Should the Phillies survive one playoff round, then another, then a third, then the chances have begun to grow that they will receive a strong roster boost for the fourth. Donβt rule out a return this season of Rhys Hoskins, says Rob Thomson. βNo,β the manager said before…
#Prospect #pitches #perfect #eighth #inning PHILADELPHIA β Recently recalled from Lehigh Valley after all of a three-day stint there, and having yet to have played in a major-league game, right-hander Orion Kerkering smiled Sunday afternoon as he peered at the plastic rolled near the clubhouse ceiling, there to be dropped in case of a playoff-clinching…
