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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

Hittin' Season #672: Memorial Day Phillies Check-In

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

Sports, News, Phillies, Philadelphia, Baseball, Sports News

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 672 of Hittin' Season, hosts John Stolnis, Justin Klugh and Liz Roscher recap the Phillies' split of their four-game series with the Braves in Atlanta over the weekend. Zack Wheeler shoved, Aaron Nola didn't. Taijuan Walker was fine, Dylan Covey wasn't. Did we learn anything new about the Phillies? Also, how MLB is wasting Memorial Day weekend as a showcase for its sport, Shohei Ohtani-to-the-Phillies rumors are hot and heavy! (no they're not), and lots more! Powered by WHYY and BillyPenn.com!!!

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0:00.0

what to do with that information.

0:01.3

You know, I feel like they really turned it up a notch a little bit.

0:04.8

Even in the game, like I said, the game they lost on Thursday, they continued to battle back.

0:08.5

And the game on Friday, Walker was really good in the offense, came through with some big

0:12.5

hits and some big moments.

0:13.7

And the game on Saturday, I mean, Zach Wheeler, like you said, was absolutely dominant. By the way, in his last, in his 11 starts against

0:22.6

the Braves as a Philly has a 2.10 ERA. That is a, that is incredible production against Atlanta.

0:29.4

And we needed that because Aranola, the guy who's supposed to be the co-ace, you saw the difference

0:34.0

between these two guys in this particular series. Aranola just left way too many pitches over the middle of the plate.

0:39.7

Zach Wheeler just has better stuff.

0:42.3

When you can throw your fastball by people, it's such a huge weapon.

0:46.7

And Aranola just doesn't have a fastball right now where he's able to do that.

0:50.4

So that's the big difference I learned between those two guys,

0:53.3

which is why I have to kind of view Areronola as more like a low number two,

0:57.6

high number three at this moment because I don't think he has the fastball to get swing

1:02.4

and miss like a guy like Zach Wheeler does or a guy like Spencer Strider does,

1:06.1

a real ace of the staff that you can get through difficult lineups with.

1:09.7

And so I just feel like with this Philly's team, I thought it was

1:12.6

good that they were able to basically, I think if they had anybody other than

1:17.6

Dylan Covey pitching for them on Sunday, they had a chance to beat Spencer Strider.

1:21.2

You know, they were actually battling him pretty well in the early endings before

1:24.0

Strider hit his stride for, you know, pun but um you know i think that phillies

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