The timing of Weston Wilson’s activation from the injured list wasn’t an accident. With left-handed pitcher David Peterson on the mound for the New York Mets on Wednesday, the Phillies wanted the right-handed hitting Wilson starting in left field. They activated him a few days short of the expiration of his rehab clock. Kody Clemens was designated for assignment as the corresponding move.
He went 1-for-2 with a base hit and a run scored in his first game back from an oblique injury suffered in spring training, then was lifted in the sixth inning for pinch hitter Max Kepler when the Mets replaced Peterson with right-handed reliever Huascar Brazobán.