Breaking ball and a call. Strike three. Third strike out for Zach. He's going to just watch it go! A grand slam for Bryson Stott!

And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Hopper watches it fly!

From W.HYY and Billy Penn, this is Hitting season of Philadelphia Phillies podcast.

My name is Justin Clue.

I write for baseball prospectus.

Well, it was one of those games in Detroit last night as the Phillies dropped game two to the Tigers.

In what was deemed a potential all-star matchup,

Ranger Suarez got the ball against the Tigers Terrick Scoobal,

a 27-year-old lefty with a 232 ERA through 16 starts this season.

Suarez seems like an easy front-runner to start for the National League in a couple of weeks,

with his 201 ERA going into last

night being the lowest in baseball, and becoming more of a household name with this breakout

summer he's having.

But as Matt Gelb of the Athletic noted, Suarez had allowed four runs in all of June, over

20 and 1 third innings.

The Tigers put four on him in the fifth inning.

Some defensive lapses did not help.

It's true.

The Tigers' strategy to focus on the middle of the field paid off that inning.

They kept slapping the ball up there every time it wasn't directly at an infielder.

They loaded the bases with no outs on Suarez in the fifth with Trey Turner and Alec Bohm, both failing to field grounders cleanly, on plays that MLB official scorekeeping naturally called a base hit.

Official MLB scorekeeping also pointed to a plane flying overhead and called it a base hit, then started pointing indiscriminately into the crowd, identifying base hit after base

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