Name a better pitcher in baseball than Ranger Suarez right now, I’ll wait.
Since a rough first start off the Injured List, Suarez has been consistently great, and that was once again the case on Sunday afternoon against the Braves. He certainly needed to be great because the Phillies’ offense didn’t provide him much run support. But in the end, the offensive ineptitude wasn’t enough to overcome Suarez’s stellar outing, and the Phillies escaped with a 2-1 win.
The Phillies have traditionally struggled against Braves starter Spencer Strider (in the regular season, that is; they’re 3-0 against him in the playoffs), but early on, it looked like they might have a big day.