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SAN DIEGO — Phillies reliever David Robertson, who injured his proper calf whereas celebrating Bryce Harper’s Sport 2 dwelling run within the Nationwide League wild-card playoffs, threw a bullpen session on Monday in San Diego. In keeping with supervisor Rob Thomson, Robertson additionally did some agility work in addition to some pitchers’ fielding observe.
Robertson was throwing his bullpen throughout Thomson’s media availability, so Thomson wasn’t capable of share whether or not he was optimistic about his late-inning reliever rejoining the Phillies’ postseason roster forward of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence towards the Padres. However Thomson did say that if the Phillies have been so as to add Robertson on the roster, he must be a “full go.” They’d not add him on the roster if it meant ready a day or two for him to have the ability to pitch.
“For me, I feel he’s acquired to be full-go tomorrow,” Thomson mentioned. “As a result of I feel it’s an enormous query mark with that damage that you just say, oh, in three days he’s going to be prepared.
“I don’t know if anyone can reply that query. That’s an enormous roster spot to take up and type of not have the ability to put it to use correctly.”
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Thomson mentioned the Phillies plan to reassess Robertson on Monday and decide from there. The addition of Robertson would offer a great addition for the Phillies’ late-inning reduction corps, which as of now, consists of José Alvarado, Seranthony Domínguez and Zach Eflin.
These three have been capable of maintain the Phillies in innings 7, 8 and 9 within the best-of-five NL Division Sequence. However in a best-of-seven NLCS, the Phillies must depend on extra of their bullpen in high-leverage spots. Alvarado, particularly, has been used fairly a bit. Because the starting of the Phillies’ postseason run, he’s thrown 6 2/3 innings (for comparability, Domínguez has thrown 3 2/3 and Eflin has thrown 4 1/3).
Robertson pitched an inning for the Phillies in Sport 1 of the wild-card spherical. He posted a 2.40 ERA over 63 2/3 innings pitched this season.
The Phillies will begin right-hander Zack Wheeler in Sport 1 on Tuesday, and the Padres will begin right-hander Yu Darvish. Darvish confronted the Phillies’ twice this season, and had a 2.08 ERA in these two begins with 14 strikeouts. Wheeler confronted the Padres as soon as, on Might 18 and held them to 4 hits in seven shutout innings.
“I’ve watched him pitch through the years for positive,” Wheeler mentioned of Darvish. “Type of the identical repertoire, I suppose you possibly can say. He throws a bit extra offspeed than I do, however he’s additionally acquired a great fastball. And he assaults guys, whether or not it’s a special means than I do or not, however he assaults guys. Simply watching him pitch, he’s accomplished it for a very long time now.
“And he’s been good for a very long time. He’s superb at what he does, and he’s discovered his little area of interest, and it’s enjoyable to observe him pitch.”
Phillies backup catcher Garrett Stubbs, a San Diego native, grew up going to Padres video games at Petco Park. He would sit within the second stage, behind dwelling plate. On Tuesday evening, his grandmother and some different members of the family will likely be in those self same seats.
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The second-to-last time the Padres have been within the playoffs, through the NLDS towards the Cardinals in 2006, Stubbs was in attendance, at Petco Park, together with his household. Returning for the postseason in 2022, and taking part in towards the crew that helped him fall in love with baseball, has been a surreal expertise.
“I used to be positively pulling for the Padres [when they were playing the Dodgers in the NLDS],” he mentioned. “I do know my household was, too. And now we’re taking part in towards them. We’ll attempt to knock them out.”
