Philadelphia Philise’s right -hand Zack Wheeler has won 109 games in his leading league career, but not a single of them has come against Toronto Blue Jais.
He will try to change the Sunday afternoon when the host Philis will go for a sweep of the three-game series.
Wheeler (6-2, 2.85 ERA) is 0–2 with 4.36 ERA in six careers against Toronto.
The 2024 National League Sai Young Award Runner-Up does not make any decision in Philadelphia’s 4-3, 11-inning win on Chicago cub on Monday. He earned praise from manager Rob Thomson, however, after scoring a run on three hits and one run in six innings in one to seven innings.
“He picked the great pitch,” Thomson said. “Veg was up. I thought he was fantastic.”
The wheeler was making his first debut since the 9–3 defeat against Atlanta on 29 May after going to Paternity Leave. His last strike against the cub was his 1,000th as a member of the Philos.
Philadelphia won an 8–0 win in the series opener on Friday and 3–2 win on Saturday. Max Capler broke the tie 2–2 with the eighth domestic run of the season at the bottom of the eighth innings on Saturday.
Capler, who began to visit 1 -for -18 on June, to increase his average to .214 in his last four matches with two couples and two homers with 4 -for -13 to .214.
“The baseball comes with great doubt,” said Kepler. “This is a mental game. You fail the majority of time. So if you uproot it like me, it can sometimes be a little spiral and you can find a dark place. But as of now, as of now, I am bending to the people of this team who really uplift me. I am just looking forward and believing in my work, and believe in myself.”
“Hopefully he has changed a bit here,” Thomson said. “And he is going to get some batsmen continuously, because we are going to face a lot of rights coming here. He looks good right now.”
One of those rights is with Capler’s old team partner Minnesota Twins, Jose Berios (2–2, 3.38), which starts on Sunday for Blue Jas.
Four careers starting against Philadelphia are 1-2 with 5.82 ERAs, Berios, has been sensationally in its last three beginnings. He has allowed one run and 10 hits in 18 2/3 innings with six walks and 15 strikeouts.
In the decision in his last beginning on Monday, Berios won 5–4 in 10 innings in St. Louis, despite stopping the 6 2/3 shutout innings. He allowed four hits, two move and hit one.
Toronto manager John Schneider said, “He is a lot of his career, in fact,” said Toronto’s manager John Schneider. “Poster boy for being a consistent major league starter.”
Berios did not even observe in the decision against Philips in Toronto in early 4 June, when he allowed one run-Five strikes on four hits in a second inning home run-six innings for Castlanos.
Toronto had a streak of five straight series of winning, which was shocking by Philips. Despite two disadvantages, Blue Jas still has 12–4 in its last 16 matches.
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