Daily News | Phillies-Cardinals questions: Who would start Game 1 against the Braves? Does 2011 matter?
Eleven years doesn’t feel that long when you’re in it. Time is continuous, after all. You don’t even notice it until something comes along to remind you how much of it has passed. Remember when you were a kid and adults would marvel at how much you’d grown since the last time they’d seen you? They were mostly marveling at the passage of time. You were a mile marker..
The commissioner’s office did a nifty little thing in setting up its new-fangled expanded playoffs. I like it, because it rewards deeper teams. With only one day off between Game 3 of the wild-card series and Game 1 of the best-of-five divisional series, the format forces teams to treat the first two rounds as a best-of-eight series where they need to win five games.
Let’s say the Phillies and Cardinals split the first two games and then the Phillies win Game 3 with Suárez on the mound. After traveling to Atlanta on Monday, they would enter Game 1 of the NLDS with Wheeler on three days rest, Nola on two days, and Suarez on one. That would leave them needing to pick between Noah Syndergaard or Kyle Gibson as their starter.A brilliant Aaron Nola clinched the playoffs. He and Zack Wheeler are why the Phillies can win it.
That’s not ideal, but it’s better than Gibson has fared as of late. In his last six starters, the veteran right-hander has averaged just 14.3 outs while allowing 5.2 runs. His totals: 28⅔ innings, 31 runs, seven home runs. He’s allowed at least four runs in five of his last six starts, at least five in four of six, and at least seven in three of six, including two of the last three.Syndergaard seems like the obvious choice, but a lot also depends on what happens during these first three games.
David Robertson last 11 outings: 11 ⅔ innings, six runs, 12 walks, 17 strikeouts, 2-for-4 in save opportunities, 1-for-2 in tie games.
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