The Phillies beat the Nationals, 8-1, in a rain-shortened game Sunday. With three games to go, their magic number to clinch a playoff berth for the first time in 11 years is down to two.
WASHINGTON — As it drizzled outside Sunday morning, Phillies officials gathered in the visiting clubhouse for multiple meetings with representatives from the Washington Nationals and Major League Baseball. Everyone agreed on the objective.
Nothing has been easy lately. The Phillies endured two five-game losing streaks in the last two weeks. But the only reason to start playing in a mist and press on through a steady rain that muddied the infield and turned parts of the warning track into a moat was because one team needed it. And it wasn’t the 104-loss Nationals.
If the Phillies and Nationals had gotten rained out, the whole thing would’ve been thrown off. Wheeler would’ve had to pitch Monday night in Houston and then not again until Game 2. Nola? Who knows? In all, Wheeler gave up two hits and struck out seven in five scoreless, walk-free innings. He threw 77 pitches and probably could’ve continued. But with a wet mound and a playoff start beckoning, there wasn’t any reason to chance it, especially after Bryson Stott’s two-run double and an RBI single by Bryce Harper stretched the margin to 4-0 in the fourth inning.
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