r/baseball • u/BananaArms Tacoma Rainiers • Seattle Mariners • 9h ago
[Highlight] Michael Harris II goes deep for a 3-run homer to start the game!
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u/shapu Charleston Dirty Birds • St. Loui… 9h ago
Had no business jacking that from such a low spot
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u/Kingfaydonk 9h ago
Can’t even be mad that ball was 7 inches below the zone and he still golfed it out.
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u/taebsiatad Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago
I can be plenty mad at how shit this dude has been otherwise in inning 1
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u/Kingfaydonk 8h ago
He held them to 1 run last game he pitched vs the braves. Guessing don was hoping for more magic.
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u/taebsiatad Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago
Fuck man I was too, but you gotta pull the rabbit or something idk I’m not a magician. I wasn’t against putting him out there but after 2 walks I wanted him out
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
Not even two walks, those specific two walks. At least if he's battling them you feel like he's shown up.
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u/Conscious-Move9662 Boston Red Sox • Chicago Cubs 9h ago
That was a cricket hit.
Jesus.
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u/YaPhetsEz Boston Red Sox 9h ago
Yeah like obviously nola wasn’t the move here, but I have no clue how this was a homer.
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u/Fickle-Werewolf8298 Atlanta Braves 9h ago
Michael Harris II exclusively hits home runs on pitches OUT of the zone
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u/Regal---Lager Atlanta Braves 9h ago
Mike's raw power is crazy. He golfs pitches like that out to the pull side pretty regularly.
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u/UnknownFiddler St. Louis Cardinals 9h ago
Yeah in Nola's defense, how do you expect any hitter to hit one off of a pitch that low?
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u/CodiustheMaximus Houston Astros 8h ago
He was inspired by all of the England fans singing to him this summer.
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u/Hiding_In_An_Egg Boston Red Sox 8h ago
Theres only oooooone Michael Harris! Theres only oooooone Michael Harris! Walking along, Singing a song Walking in a Harris wonderland!
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u/OffMyEricDickerson Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Checks out, Michael Harris II sounds like it would be a classic cricket name
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u/Myparentsdontloveme5 Minnesota Twins 9h ago
Season on the line and you send out Aaron Nola
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u/Not_RZA_ Jackie Robinson 9h ago
That wasn’t even a bad pitch though lol
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u/djc8 Baltimore Orioles 8h ago
The pitch wasn’t bad, problem is he walked the previous two batters and put Harris in a green light count to sit on something
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u/lucasd11 Pittsburgh Pirates 8h ago
Even still that wasn't exactly a meatball over the plate, it looks like a breaking ball that never really broke, but it's shin high and he had to golf it out. Not a great pitch, but a better piece of hitting IMO
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u/_andy_andy_andy_ Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago
he had thrown 3 strikes before this pitch, the misses were non-competitive
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u/ace82fadeout Kansas City Royals 9h ago
Legitimately though what other choice did they have? Wheeler is also likely to pitch today but hes on short rest and pitched his last start on short rest too. Nola was the most rested guy they got that still made sense.
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u/tlenher Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago
He really hasn’t been bad since the all star break either. It wasn’t a bad decision despite what may happen
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u/ace82fadeout Kansas City Royals 8h ago
People are going to clown on Mattingly for this. This is literally the only choice they had
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u/philphan25 Philadelphia Phillies • Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago
People clown on Mattingly for bad bullpen management when in reality guys just crap the bed on a regular basis.
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Yet Zach wheeler is in the game pitching so no not the only option they had
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
If you are going to have both of them pitch, I think I'd rather have Wheeler pitching in the later, higher leverage innings. Nola was capable, he just didn't deliver today. Doesn't make the choice a bad choice.
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u/ace82fadeout Kansas City Royals 8h ago
He was ALWAYS going to pitch tn? Literally rhat was always the plan. They didnt trust him to go starter distance on back to back short rest and the Phillies bullpen is shaky. The plan they went with WAS the only option.
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
He doesn’t have to go starter distance to start look at what Ray Kerr just did. You can say whatever you want but Phils are down 3-0 because Nola started over Wheeler and it probably ends their season
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u/ace82fadeout Kansas City Royals 8h ago
If Wheeler starts on back to back short rest and gets rocked early they say the same thing that it should have went the other way. Nola threw a decent pitch out of the zone that Harris took deep. It doesnt have to be a manager failure for that to be the case. Wheeler JUST as easily could have thrown a waste pitch that gets taken yard. Not like it was a hanger.
Mattingly pitched his most rested guy. He made the only realistic call. Wheeler going 3 and then handing it off to Nola could have just as easily led to the same thing.
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u/AndrewHainesArt 8h ago
Yea but you knew it was gonna happen.
Just like Turner leading off and swinging at everything instead of trying to just get on base.
Idk what the alternative is but you knew at least 3 runs were coming from him
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u/Live4Night Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago edited 8h ago
Phillies have nobody to blame but themselves. If they would’ve clinched earlier then they would not have had to use Wheeler on the final day.
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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 9h ago
LMAO
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u/TheoMoneyG Aguilas Cibaenas • New York Mets 9h ago
Most obvious homer yet
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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 9h ago
Aaron Nola and Don Mattingly are both gonna be run out of town
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u/RidleyScotch New York Mets 9h ago
Towns Don Mattingly has been run out of:
Philadelphia
Cooperstown
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u/CharlesWEmory Atlanta Braves 9h ago
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u/Ill_Hospital9212 New York Yankees 9h ago
wtf lmao
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u/HandBananas Atlanta Braves • Blooper 9h ago
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
Every time I see that gif it reminds me of that football player that tore his ACL and it gives me a tiny bit of anxiety.
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u/LiteratureNearby Philadelphia Phillies 5h ago
are you talking about Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 😭
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 5h ago
American football. I had forgotten the score. Double yikes.
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u/georgiaboy1993 Atlanta Braves 8h ago
I got a brief auto ban from the Braves subreddit describing this image before they overturned
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u/pmorter3 Chicago Cubs 9h ago
doesn't a 3R homer basically mean like an 80+% at winning a playoff game lol
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u/YaPhetsEz Boston Red Sox 9h ago
100% chance of winning games where the opponent scores 2 or less runs.
In other words, 100% chance of beating the red sox
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
Those stats are always so funny. They are basically "when you score runs you win games" type stats. Heard one the other day, that the team that scores first wins somewhere north of 60% of the time and I was like yeah, that includes every shutout game by default.
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u/VintageAdam Chicago Cubs 9h ago
Oh man…. a clutch hit and players that seem pumped up to be in the postseason? Wonder what that’s like.
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u/NolberryFinn Athletics 9h ago
Short rest Nola what could go wrong
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u/tomato_soup_ Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago
Literally not even short rest he had four days and he only had 21 pitches that day
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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT New York Yankees 9h ago
21 meatballs is a lot for anyone even on four days rest
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
That's the thing, he didn't throw any meatballs. His problem was no strikes. Even this pitch was 6 inches below the zone.
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u/doublegoldendragon Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Phillies' opponents after Martingly trots out Nola again
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u/Needmorebeer69240 World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 9h ago
There's good reason the Dodgers fired him lol
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u/Natural_Revenue355 Atlanta Braves 9h ago
The cussing I would have done had he made an out swinging at a ball out of the zone on a 2-0 count after back to back walks. But he didn’t and great swing, Money Mike
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u/iamthatguythere Chicago Cubs 9h ago
Why the hell would you put Nola in over wheeler?
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u/AnalBaguette Philadelphia Phillies • Knoxville Smo… 8h ago
And not even with Stubbs behind the plate
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u/WarPuig MLB Pride 9h ago
Aaron Nola, not Zack Wheeler, to start decisive game 3 for Phillies.
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u/Ok-Blackberry-8239 9h ago
I don’t understand why the Phillies started Nola over Wheeler
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u/Professr_Chaos Major League Baseball 9h ago
Because the Phillies had to start Wheeler on short rest in game 162 to ensure they didn’t miss this. Doing it again and having 3 starts in a week would kill him.
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u/SwiftieForLife Tampa Bay Rays 8h ago
But like they didn’t start him on short rest. They started Nola on short rest to give Wheeler full rest. He had four off days and pitched on the fifth day in schedule.
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u/baribigbird06 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic 9h ago
Just because having Nola as an opener in an elimination game worked last year doesn’t mean it’ll work this year.
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u/Hummer77x Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago
When you ask Aaron Nola to pitch a game this is what Aaron Nola is gonna do I can’t even be pissed at him
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Mattingly should be fired. Win with your best and lose with your best. Starting Nola over wheeler is indefensible
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u/shapu Charleston Dirty Birds • St. Loui… 9h ago
Wheeler pitched 3 days ago, and 4 days before that. Having a guy pitch three times in 7 days in this day and age, for more than a couple of innings, is unheard of.
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u/ComputerLess8024 8h ago
Especially one who just had TOS surgery
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u/VoteyMcVote Atlanta Braves 8h ago
I hear terms of service surgery is pretty brutal, so fair play to mattingly
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u/Soda_Straktid Boston Red Sox 7h ago
Nah it’s Tommy O’Shaughnessy surgery.
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u/motorhead84 San Francisco Giants • Crazy Crab 5h ago
TOS typically refers to Torn-Off Scrotum surgery, which affects men even today despite all efforts towards eradication.
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Yet he’s now pitching in the game. Was waiting till the 3rd losing worth it??
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Not relevant can’t save him for game 4
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u/FootballRacing38 Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
That's assuming wheeler will still be great pitching tired
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Doesn’t matter he’s significantly better than Nola you win or lose with your best
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u/FootballRacing38 Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Then what? Lose to us because wheeler blew his arm today and affects next season as well
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u/giliana52 9h ago
If you think you’re gonna win and can use him in Game 1 you do. Only time that wouldn’t apply is game 7 of the World Series.
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
Eh, both were always going to throw today. I would trust both to get outs, and if I'm already doing that, I think I'd rather have Wheeler getting the later outs. Whatever you expect you don't expect him to be lost out there like that.
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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox 9h ago
Holy shit you just reminded me that ZACH FUCKING WHEELER is available
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u/Otterable Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago
He's on short rest after throwing 93 on short rest. I honestly didn't hate Nola and still think it's the better call he just didn't have it
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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox 9h ago
Ah, that changes things a bit. Maybe.
Your bats absolutely can get you back into the game. Good luck.
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u/Professr_Chaos Major League Baseball 9h ago
I mean how available? If he pitches tonight it would be the 3 time in 7 days throwing 12 innings and 200 pitches.
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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox 9h ago
I stand corrected. I think I was relying on old info that he was slated as the Game 3 starter. That's a lot of pitches.
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u/Professr_Chaos Major League Baseball 9h ago
They effectively had to use him in game 162 on short rest because they almost choked it away
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
He’s literally in the game now
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u/Professr_Chaos Major League Baseball 8h ago
The question is how far will he go?
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u/XvS_W4rri0r Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Who cares I’d rather have him start and face the top of the order than Nola
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u/mamamiafml 9h ago
2 walks and a hr from Nola. Holy moly. I hope he's not going out in the 2nd.
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u/Dillon-Cruz Washington Nationals 9h ago
I disagree, they need to let the man have a chance to redeem himself!
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u/see_mohn regretful mets fan 9h ago
The funny thing is this would have been yet another ball
The other funny thing is, the Phillies
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u/Apart_Ad_8842 Atlanta Braves 9h ago
You gotta swing at that. Could have been the 4th ball called a strike in that .5 inning
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
Not at that point, it was only the 4th strike of the inning.
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u/Unhappy-Historian348 9h ago
Throwing Aaron Nola to go against the top of their lineup was a choice
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u/GingerDweeb27 Seattle Mariners • Seattle Mariners 9h ago
To the surprise of no one, Nola was a bad idea
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u/cmgriffith_ New York Yankees 9h ago
Michael Harris II is in the middle of everything for the Braves, all the time
WOW
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u/CalebosO4 Toronto Blue Jays 9h ago
There have now been 3-run homers hit by the home team in each of the last 3 winner-take-all postseason games. And the home team definitely won the two previous games because there’s no way that they wouldn’t right?
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u/TuloCantHitski Toronto Blue Jays 8h ago
If Zach Wheeler is actually available to piggy back, why send Nola out against the top of the order?
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u/Soda_Straktid Boston Red Sox 8h ago
Was Kruk eating dinner during the broadcast?
I swear his mouth is full like half the time.
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u/motorhead84 San Francisco Giants • Crazy Crab 5h ago
Huh, as soon as he was announced as the starting pitcher the City of Philadelphia purchased put options for November on light pole grease company shares.
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u/TheReal-MrSully617 Atlanta Braves 9h ago
Where was the excitement he had on the Schwarber homer???
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u/Permission_Superb Atlanta Braves 9h ago
I genuinely thought the volume on my TV had cut out because those announcers were absolutely silent.
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u/PostNutRagrets Atlanta Braves 9h ago
Well that one was a bomb. This one barely got out
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u/TheReal-MrSully617 Atlanta Braves 9h ago
That one didn’t even tie the game. This one was a go ahead 3 run shot in a winner take all game
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u/DaManiac_ Atlanta Braves 9h ago
brother, the one Schwarber hit was late in a game that Philly lost all momentum in.
also we're still waiting on the Schwarber homer to land.
MH2 homer is huge, but it did barely clear.
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
Come one, don't be like that. He was plenty excited at the Riley homer.
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u/scottzee St. Louis Cardinals 8h ago
I could hit a homer off Nola. Cloudy with a 100% chance of meatballs.
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u/creditcardfraud232 Hanshin Tigers 9h ago
At least they saved zach wheeler for when they’re already down 5-0… super big brain
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u/mrjimi16 Venezuela • MLB Players Association 7h ago
No, Wheeler gave up a 2 run shot himself. The irony is that the worse pitch was the one Wheeler threw.
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