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| 2016 Chachi Fan Appreciation Day #6 |
Game 10 - Sunday Afternoon, April 17th in Miami
Record - 4-6, 4th Place, 3 games behind the Mets
One Sentence Summary: The Marlins teed off against Zack Wheeler, easily winning this game, 11-3.
What It Means: Ten games into the season and the Phillies do not look like a competitive team. Manager Joe Girardi is already tweaking the line-up, batting J.T. Realmuto lead-off and dropping Kyle Schwarber to fifth in the order. The move didn't pay off in this game, but hopefully the offense can get things going when the club opens a three-game series in Denver on Monday night.
What Happened: Wheeler faltered in the fourth and was pulled after beginning the frame with a hit batter, a single and a walk. His final line wasn't pretty - 3+ innings pitched, 7 runs, 8 hits, 3 walks. Cristopher Sanchez was tasked with mop-up duties and allowed three more runs. Bryce Harper was 3 for 5 with a solo home run in the fifth, while Schwarber added a solo shot in the eighth.
Featured Card: Phillies pitchers (Wheeler, Sanchez, Brad Hand, Jose Alvarado) hit four batters in this game, and the last time that happened was September 25, 2016, per a Matt Gelb Tweet. The quartet of Phillies pitchers in that game were Jake Thompson, Phil Klein, Colton Murray and Patrick Schuster, all of whom were immortalized in the 2016 Chachi set. You'd have to be a true die-hard Phillies fan, and most likely have something wrong with you, to remember that quartet, and Schuster is probably the most obscure of the four.
I wrote this about Schuster in a game summary post from September 8, 2016, and I ended up using a screenshot from a Phillies TV broadcast for his Chachi card.
Schuster was among a handful of players stationed at the front gates for the final home game of the 2016 season, and he graciously posed with my sons in what would be his final time putting on a Phillies uniform.
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