Daily News | Phillies pitching shines in 1-0 victory over the Mariners for third straight series win
But Matt Strahm didn’t show any outward signs of distress in the sixth inning Thursday. And after manager Rob Thomson took the ball from him, the lefty hopped over the first-base line on his way off the field and chatted up several teammates in the dugout.
In eking out the rubber game against the Mariners, the Phillies won their third consecutive series and capped a 5-2 homestand against Seattle and Colorado. They also climbed back to the .500 mark, and at 13-13, headed out on a tough six-game road trip to Houston and Los Angeles. There will be time to discuss that. For now, consider the role that Strahm and the bullpen have played in keeping the Phillies afloat while Harper, No. 3 starter Ranger Suárez, and 20-year-old pitching phenom Andrew Painter are sidelined.
Strahm stymied the Mariners in several ways. He struck out the side in the first inning, rolled a ground-ball double play in a four-pitch fourth, and kept Seattle hitters guessing with a mixture of fastballs, cutters, sliders, and sinkers. “Just keep running him out there because everybody goes through slumps at some point,” Thomson said. “Just got to trust that he’s going to come out of it. You know he is. History tells you that.”
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