Astros-Phillies Game 2 updates: Valdez rolling into middle innings
when he grounded out with runners on second and third to end Game 1. “It was just a matter of, you know, sometimes you want to be the hero,” Baker said. “I mean, most of us have played hero in our lives since we were little kids, and this is what it kind of looked like to me. I mean, I was letting him hit 3-0. I let a lot of 'em hit 3-0. But you have to get a good pitch to hit 3-0.
“We’ve felt like the underdog a little bit – or at least we’ve been told we’re the underdog,” Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins said. “That doesn’t necessarily sit well with us, we feel like we’re as good a team as anybody.” As for the Phillies getting to Astros ace Justin Verlander in the fourth and fifth innings to tie Game 1 with five runs, Hoskins said it’s all about the windup .
“We got him in the stretch,” Hoskins said. “You could see him catching a little bit of a rhythm, but the game is a different beast in the stretch. There’s stress added, especially when guys get to second base. You feel the intensity dial up, and it just becomes a different game.” Pitchers typically use a windup with no runners on and then turn to the stretch – the quick set and pitch to try and keep runners from stealing.After Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler start the first two games, the natural Game 3 starter for the Phillies would be Ranger Suarez, but he entered in the seventh inning of Game 1, striking out Yordan Alvarez to end that frame, then facing Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker in the eighth before being removed after throwing 11 pitches.
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