Phillies ace (and ex-Met) Zack Wheeler plus the familiar October combo of Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper led the Phillies to a 6-1 win in Game 5.
PHOENIX — The Chase Field center field scoreboard often calls for “chaos,” and for two days the home team and the crowd obliged as the upstart Diamondbacks scrapped their way back into a surprise tie in the National League Championship Series via loud and late-game heroics.
The Phillies may also be baseball’s top performer in the free-agent market, and the $118 million, five-year deal three winters ago for Wheeler, which looked like an overpay back then, has turned out to be one of the best starting pitching signings ever, right up there with Greg Maddux, Mike Mussina and Max Scherzer .
Schwarber and Harper, two more outstanding free-agent signings by Philly, hit a pair of monster homers in the sixth inning off Diamondbacks ace Zac Gallen, and the Phillies have now outhomered their opponents 22-5 this October. Their only real weakness is timing. The last 15 long balls were solo shots.Wheeler didn’t need much help, and though his $24.
Wheeler and the Phillies came together mostly because he wanted to be near New Jersey . Since Queens is somewhat close to New Jersey it stands to reason the Mets might have had a decent chance. But word is it was out of the Mets baseball people’s hands as his medical history — he’d had Tommy John surgery — caused Mets medical people to recommend against it.
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