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Spring Training Game 28 - Friday Afternoon, March 22nd in Clearwater
Record - 8-14-6
One Sentence Summary: Leading 3-0 going into the ninth inning, Gregory Soto, the presumed closer to start the season, allowed a pair of home runs and four runs overall as the Tigers stunned the Phillies in a 4-3 defeat.
What It Means: Not great. Soto had looked fine all spring until this outing.
What Happened: Zack Wheeler seems ready for the season to start, as the staff ace pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing a hit and striking out five. Jose Alvarado, Jeff Hoffman and Seranthony Dominguez followed with three scoreless innings of relief before Soto imploded in the ninth. Jake Cave, fighting for the final bench spot, had an RBI single in the second and Brandon Marsh added an RBI double in the sixth. Edmundo Sosa hit a long home run in the seventh, his second of the spring.
Featured Card: Here's Wheeler's Phillies Kids Club card from last year, available only at the ballpark. With opening day less than a week away, I can again hope the Phillies make the move to bring back their team-issued photo cards, absent in set form last year.
What It Means: Not great. Soto had looked fine all spring until this outing.
What Happened: Zack Wheeler seems ready for the season to start, as the staff ace pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing a hit and striking out five. Jose Alvarado, Jeff Hoffman and Seranthony Dominguez followed with three scoreless innings of relief before Soto imploded in the ninth. Jake Cave, fighting for the final bench spot, had an RBI single in the second and Brandon Marsh added an RBI double in the sixth. Edmundo Sosa hit a long home run in the seventh, his second of the spring.
Featured Card: Here's Wheeler's Phillies Kids Club card from last year, available only at the ballpark. With opening day less than a week away, I can again hope the Phillies make the move to bring back their team-issued photo cards, absent in set form last year.
Camp Head Count: 38 and then 35
Prior to the game, the Phillies optioned Weston Wilson (inf) to Lehigh Valley and reassigned David Buchanan (rhp), Cam Gallagher (c), Aramis Garcia (c) and Jordan Luplow (of) to minor league camp.
After the game, Scott Kingery (inf), David Dahl (of) and Cal Stevenson (of) were reassigned to minor league camp. By my unofficial tally, the only two non-roster invitees remaining are Andrew Bellatti (rhp) and Jose Ruiz (rhp).
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